QGD

The Queen's Gambit Declined has something for everyone. For the bores amongst you, consider trying the Orthodox and Lasker Defences - you may lose some games through overly passive play, but in others you'll manage to exchange enough pieces to draw. The Tartakower and Cambridge Springs Defences are more interesting and complex, while Black can try a Tarrasch formation if he's prepared to weaken his structure for some play. Black isn't the only one with some choice - White can try a .i.f4 or .ll.xf6 system to vary the play, go into the Exchange Variation with cxd5, or fianchetto in a Catalan. In short, even in this one branch of the Queen's Gambit, there's enough variety and potential for great chess to satisfy anyone.

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Queen's Gambit Declined