[Event "The Queen's Gambit, a dynamic opening: Queen's Gambit Declined : exchange variation"] [Site "https://lichess.org/study/BXkDd521/h2iwAsHx"] [Result "*"] [Variant "Standard"] [ECO "D35"] [Opening "Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation"] [Annotator "https://lichess.org/@/francesco_super"] [StudyName "The Queen's Gambit, a dynamic opening"] [ChapterName "Queen's Gambit Declined : exchange variation"] [UTCDate "2017.07.31"] [UTCTime "17:45:06"] [Source "https://lichess.org/study/BXkDd521/h2iwAsHx"] [Orientation "white"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 { the one of the main moves. White attacking d5 pawn agains with Night here } { Whites are putting pressure on the d5 pawn } (3. Nf3 { Is better but first lets look at Nc3 }) 3... Nf6 { Main move here but you can see a lot of other moves like } (3... Be7!? { - Petrosian Variation } { [%cal Ge7f6] }) (3... c6) (3... Bb4) (3... h6) 4. cxd5 { It is the exchanging variation white echanging theyr c pawn on blacks e pawn it is better for white because e pawn is central and c pawn is not very central pawn } { Now blacks only have one central pawn whereas whites still have both of them. } 4... exd5 { Now it is Carlsbad pawn structure } (4... Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 { gives a lot of space for white } 6... c5 7. Nf3 cxd4 8. cxd4 Bb4+ 9. Bd2 Bxd2+ 10. Qxd2 O-O 11. Bb5 b6 12. Rc1 Bb7) 5. Bf4 { I think it is best } 5... Bf5 6. e3 c6 { Ok lets look at whites and blacks ideas in tis position. Whites Ideas they are of course Qweens pawn storm with b2-b4-b5 and a2-a4-a5 and a5-a6 The Idea of qweenside pawn storm it is too attack blacks qweenside pawns and do the weakness for black And White can play f2-f3 and than e3-e4 it is main Ideas of white. Black can attack on Kingside with a pawn storm or Without and maybe to play b7-b6 and c6-c5 } { [%cal Gb2b4,Gb4b5,Ga2a4,Ga4a5,Ga5a6,Gf2f3,Gc3a4,Ga4c5,Ga1c1,Gg1f3,Gg1e2,Gf1e2,Gb8d7,Ge8g8,Rg7g2,Rh7h2] } *