How to Play the Queen’s Gambit Declined! | Exchange, Tartakower, & Bf4 Variation

In this video we are looking at an overview of the Queen’s Gambit and a total of 9 model games in the Queen’s Gambit, and examining 3 big variations I recommend. The recommendations are pretty straight-forward and are sound according to theory.

The thumbnail is from the Fischer vs Spassky 1972 Match, where the iconic & beautiful Tartakower of Game 6 was featured!

For a complete 1.d4 d5 repertoire, the only thing left to know of is how to face the London system, Jobava London (Check my video on it!), Catalan, Colle system (i also have a video on the Colle), and the Torre Attack.

I decided to make just 1 more video after this to cover the London system briefly since I figured that I have these notes ready anyways. Then the 1.d4 d5 repertoire coverage is pretty much complete!

Good luck!

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
9:13 Exchange Variation: Salem Saleh vs Magnus Carlsen [Game 1]
11:39 Important ideas in the Carlsbad structure
14:55 Game analysis continues
28:05 Tartakower Variation: Jan Timman vs Efim Geller [Game 2]
39:20 Curt Hansen vs Lars Schandorff [Game 3]
44:25 Curt Hansen vs Kiril Georgiev [Game 4]
48:12 Keith Arkell vs Nigel Short [Game 5]
52:41 Anti-Tartakower Variation: Igor Kovalenko vs Jeffrey Xiong [Game 6]
58:58 Maxim Matlakov vs Hikaru Nakamura [Game 7]
1:07:02 Bf4 Queen’s Gambit: Magnus Carlsen vs Vassily Ivanchuk [Game 8]
1:12:52 Veselin Topalov vs Hikaru Nakamura [Game 9]
1:20:15 Conclusion