Queen's Gambit Declined: Semmering Variation
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Nbd2 Nbd7 6. Bd3 c5
The Queen's Gambit Declined: Semmering Variation is a chess opening classified as ECO D30, reached after 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Nbd2 Nbd7 6. Bd3 c5. It is a line of the Queen's Gambit Declined. White 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: +0.38 (Stockfish, depth 40; best line 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. O-O Be7 9. Nb3 cxd4)
- ECO
- D30
- Moves
- 12 plies
- FEN
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1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Nbd2 Nbd7 6. Bd3 c5
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Master games
8 over-the-board games are classified under this line (White 38%, draw 37%, Black 25%). The strongest:
- GM Leon Luke Mendonca (2611) – WIM Anastasiya Rakhmangulova (2332) 1-0 · 10th Sunway Sitges 2023 · 2023-12-13
- GM Tuan Minh Tran (2506) – GM Huynh Minh Huy Nguyen (2410) 1-0 · Thailand Pattaya Open · 2018-10-29
- GM Aydin Suleymanli (2547) – FM Jain Kashish Manoj (2315) 1-0 · 22nd Dubai Open 2022 · 2022-08-30
- IM Alexander Khlebovich (2423) – FM Danila Bilan (2303) 1/2-1/2 · Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early · 2024-07-23
- IM Nicolas Brunner (2425) – FM Al Tarbosh, W. (2182) 0-1 · Titled Tuesday 31st Aug · 2021-08-31
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Comes from
Semi-Slav Defense: Quiet Variation (5. Nbd2 Nbd7) 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Nbd2 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.