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Volume D · Closed and semi-closed games‹ D31D33 ›
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Reference position · White to move

D32 Tarrasch Defense

Also filed here: Queen’s Gambit.

D32 holds 13 named lines from two openings, most of them (nine) under Tarrasch Defense. It leaves D31 (Queen’s Gambit Declined: Queen’s Knight Variation) with 3...c5. Material is no longer level at the end of three of its lines; the widest gap, one pawn in White’s favour, comes in Tarrasch Defense: Grünfeld Gambit. Lines filed under D40 reach one of its named positions by a different move order.

Score sheet
#WhiteBlack
1d4d5
2c4e6
3Nc3c5

The move that completes D32

The reference line of D33 plays all of these moves and continues beyond them; D32 is the position reached at 3...c5.

  1. 3...c5 The c-pawn advances two squares to c5, covering b4 and d4, opening a line for the queen on d8.

Lines filed under D32

They begin with two different first moves.

NameAfter the shared startPliesAt the end
Tarrasch Defense1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c56
Queen’s Gambit Declined: Tarrasch Defense1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.cxd5 exd58
Tarrasch Defense: Schara Gambit1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.cxd5 cxd48
Tarrasch Defense: Marshall Gambit1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.e49
Tarrasch Defense: Two Knights Variation1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Nf39
Tarrasch Defense: Symmetrical Variation1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.e3 Nf6 5.Nf3 Nc610
Queen’s Gambit Declined: Tarrasch Defense1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.Bg5 Be712
Tarrasch Defense: Symmetrical Variation1.c4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.d4 d5 6.cxd5 exd512
Tarrasch Defense: Tarrasch Gambit1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.dxc5 d4 6.Na4 b512White +1
Queen’s Gambit Declined: Tarrasch Defense1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.Bg5 Be7 7.Bxe7 Ngxe714
Queen’s Gambit Declined: Tarrasch Defense1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.e3 c5 5.cxd5 exd5 6.Nc3 a6 7.Be2 Nc614
Tarrasch Defense: Grünfeld Gambit1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.dxc5 d4 7.Na4 b514White +1
Tarrasch Defense: von Hennig Gambit1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.cxd5 cxd4 5.Qxd4 Nc6 6.Qd1 exd5 7.Qxd5 Be614White +1

The road to D32

  1. 1.d4 … 2.c4three earlier stops: A40, D00, D06
  2. 2...e6D30 Queen’s Gambit Declined
  3. 3.Nc3D31 Queen’s Knight Variation
  4. 3...c5D32

The position after 3...c5

White has brought out the knight on c3; Black has not yet moved a knight or bishop. White could capture with Nxd5, cxd5, dxc5. White is to move and has 33 legal moves.

WhiteBlackMaterial (pawn units)3939Minor pieces developed10Moves spent on pawns23Pawns on d4, e4, d5, e511Squares attacked in the other half65not castlednot castled

Codes that branch off from D32

The reference lines of one other code leave D32 from the position after 5.Nf3, each with its own moves.

CodeMovesReference line
D335...Nc6 6.g3Tarrasch Defense: Rubinstein System

Closest boards in other codes

CodeLineDiffers on
B14Caro-Kann Defense: Panov Attackfour squares: e2, c5, f6, g8
D30Queen’s Gambit Declinedfour squares: b1, c3, c5, c7
D35Queen’s Gambit Declined: Normal Defensefour squares: c5, f6, c7, g8
D40Queen’s Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defensefour squares: g1, f3, f6, g8
A34English Opening: Symmetrical Variation, Normal Variationsix squares: d2, d4, d5, e6, d7, e7
C07French Defense: Tarrasch Variation, Open Systemsix squares: c2, d2, e2, c3, c4, e4
C08French Defense: Tarrasch Variation, Open Systemsix squares: c2, d2, e2, c3, c4, e6

Where lines continue from here

Seventeen named lines filed under other codes pass through the position after 3...c5. Besides the codes above, they belong to D34.

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Other move orders

  • Tarrasch Defense: Symmetrical Variation is also reached inside D40 Queen’s Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense, whose order is 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 c5 5.e3 Nc6.

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