Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation, Knight Defense
ECO: D51Closed Games1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Nbd7 5.e3
no master games reached this exact line · estimated data
How it's played
Start
1.2.3.4.5.
About the Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation, Knight Defense
The Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation, Knight Defense is a line of the Queen's Gambit Declined, catalogued under ECO code D51 in the Closed Games section of the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings.
It arises after 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Nbd7 5.e3, with White playing the move that gives the line its name.
The Queen's Gambit Declined has 198 named lines in our opening book; the ones closest to this position are listed below.
Where the line goes next
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Manhattan VariationD51 · 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Nbd7 5.e3 Bb4
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation, Knight DefenseD51 · 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Nbd7 5.e3 c6
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Capablanca Variation, Anti-Cambridge Springs VariationD51 · 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Nbd7 5.e3 c6 6.a3
Other lines of the Queen's Gambit Declined
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin CountergambitD08 · 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Austrian DefenseD06 · 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c5
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic DefenseD06 · 1.d4 d5 2.c4 Bf5
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin DefenseD07 · 1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nc6
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Marshall DefenseD06 · 1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nf6
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Zilbermints GambitD06 · 1.d4 d5 2.c4 b5
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Queen AttackD06 · 1.d4 d5 2.c4 Bf5 3.Qb3
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin DefenseD07 · 1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nc3