Queen's Gambit Declined: Lasker Defense, Main Line
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Be7 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 O-O 7. e3 Ne4 8. Bxe7 Qxe7 9. cxd5 Nxc3 10. bxc3
The Queen's Gambit Declined: Lasker Defense, Main Line is a chess opening classified as ECO D57, reached after 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Be7 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 O-O 7. e3 Ne4 8. Bxe7 Qxe7 9. cxd5 Nxc3 10. bxc3. It is a line of the Queen's Gambit Declined. Black is to move.
This exact move order didn't appear in our sample of 12.6 million Lichess games: it's a rare line.
Engine evaluation: +0.07 (Stockfish, depth 38; best line 10… exd5 11. Bd3 Be6 12. O-O Nd7 13. a4)
- ECO
- D57
- Moves
- 19 plies
- FEN
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1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Be7 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 O-O 7. e3 Ne4 8. Bxe7 Qxe7 9. cxd5 Nxc3 10. bxc3
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Master games
19 over-the-board games are classified under this line (White 37%, draw 47%, Black 16%). The strongest:
- GM Viktor Laznicka (2679) – GM Viswanathan Anand (2785) 1/2-1/2 · FIDE World Rapid 2014 · 2014-06-16
- IM Mikhail Demidov (2520) – GM Daniel Fridman (2633) 1/2-1/2 · 20th ch-EUR Indiv 2019 · 2019-03-27
- GM Miralles, G. (2427) – GM Michael Prusikin (2512) 1-0 · TCh-SUI 2018 · 2018-07-01
- IM Ervin Toth (2432) – IM Gabor Kovacs (2413) 1-0 · TCh-HUN 2022-23 · 2023-01-15
- WGM Inga Charkhalashvili (2324) – WGM Nino Batsiashvili (2434) 1/2-1/2 · II Holuj-Radzikowski Mem · 2012-07-05
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Comes from
Queen's Gambit Declined: Lasker Defense (7. e3 Ne4) 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Be7 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 O-O 7. e3 Ne4
More Queen's Gambit Declined lines (all)
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Pseudo-Slav D02
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- Queen's Gambit Declined: Austrian Defense D06
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Austrian Defense, Gusev Countergambit D06
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Austrian Defense, Haberditz Variation D06
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense D06
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Argentinian Gambit D06
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Pseudo-Chigorin D06
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Queen Attack D06
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Queen Attack Deferred D06
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Marshall Defense D06
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Marshall Defense, Tan Gambit D06
Opening names and moves from the Lichess openings dataset; statistics from the Lichess open database, 2026-09 (CC0), sample of 12.6 million games, bots excluded; evaluations from Lichess cloud analysis (all CC0). Master games from The Week in Chess #920–#1664 by Mark Crowther, used with permission.