Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Rubinstein Variation, Flohr Line
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bg5 O-O 6. e3 Nbd7 7. Qc2 c5 8. cxd5
The Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Rubinstein Variation, Flohr Line is a chess opening classified as ECO D62, reached after 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bg5 O-O 6. e3 Nbd7 7. Qc2 c5 8. cxd5. 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: +0.21 (Stockfish, depth 34; best line 8… cxd4 9. Nxd4 Nxd5 10. Bxe7 Nxe7 11. Be2)
- ECO
- D62
- Moves
- 15 plies
- FEN
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1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bg5 O-O 6. e3 Nbd7 7. Qc2 c5 8. cxd5
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Master games
8 over-the-board games are classified under this line (White 25%, draw 12%, Black 63%). The strongest:
- GM Alexander Rustemov (2525) – IM Justin Sarkar (2314) 1-0 · Titled Tuesday 1st Feb B · 2022-02-02
- GM Alexander Rustemov (2525) – CM Vadym Petrovskiy (2239) 0-1 · Titled Tuesday 14th Dec · 2021-12-14
- IM Anna M. Sargsyan (2371) – FM Ruslan Kavyev (2282) 1-0 · Titled Tue 16th Jul Late · 2024-07-16
- FM Aleksa Petrovic (2247) – IM Gianmarco Leiva (2398) 0-1 · Titled Tue 7th Feb Late · 2023-02-07
- FM Dirk Paulsen (2316) – David Gasparyan (2203) 0-1 · Titled Tue 18th Feb Late · 2025-02-18
Comes from
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bg5 O-O 6. e3 Nbd7
More Queen's Gambit Declined lines (all)
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Pseudo-Slav D02
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Austrian Attack, Salvio Countergambit D06
- 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.