page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 28  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Gruenfeld vs J Bernstein 1-0 44 1923 Karlsbad D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line 2. Teichmann vs Bogoljubov   ½-½ 27 1923 Karlsbad D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line 3. Maroczy vs Spielmann   1-0 48 1923 Karlsbad D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line 4. Bogoljubov vs Yates 1-0 90 1924 New York D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line 5. R P Michell vs Yates   ½-½ 81 1924 Hastings-A 2425 D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line 6. Rubinstein vs C Duffield   1-0 37 1924 Major Open D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line 7. G A Thomas vs Yates 1-0 75 1925 Baden Baden D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line 8. Opocensky vs R P Michell   1-0 82 1925 Marienbad D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line 9. Tarrasch vs B Moritz   1-0 34 1925 Breslau D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line 10. Rubinstein vs Yates   0-1 27 1925 Informal Tournament D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line 11. Rubinstein vs S Takacs 1-0 53 1926 Budapest D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line 12. Alekhine vs Capablanca ½-½ 19 1927 Capablanca-Alekhine World Championship Match D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line 13. Rubinstein vs Kashdan ½-½ 64 1928 Exhibition D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line 14. N Pavlov-Pianov vs Rauzer   ½-½ 80 1929 USSR Championship D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line 15. A Budo vs Rauzer   ½-½ 49 1931 USSR Championship D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line 16. F Reinfeld vs Fine   1-0 24 1931 Marshall CC Championship D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line 17. V Petrov vs Fine   0-1 36 1935 Warsaw olm, POL D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line 18. R Grau vs B P Reilly 1-0 36 1935 Olympiad D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line 19. Alekhine vs Vidmar   1-0 71 1936 Hastings 1936/37 D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line 20. Leopold Lenner vs L Laurine   1-0 55 1936 Munich Olympiad D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line 21. A Di Camillo vs W Suesman   1-0 37 1944 Ventnor City D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line 22. Konstantinopolsky vs A Poliak   ½-½ 30 1945 Moscow-ch D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line 23. P Trifunovic vs B Gruber   1-0 56 1947 Ljubljana ch-YUG D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line 24. E Gereben vs B Milic   ½-½ 39 1947 Balkaniad tt D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line 25. Najdorf vs P Trifunovic   ½-½ 72 1949 Opatija D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line  page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 28    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)

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Dec-01-04    EnglishOpeningc4: Although not many games have been played with it, that is an impressive score for white Dec-01-04    Dudley: ECO D64 is also the Rubenstein attack, and has over 150 games in the database. At one time, this was one of the most popular QGD variations. Dec-01-04    PinkPanther: To explain the winning % for white, just look at the players playing the white pieces in these games. Those names speak for themselves. Dec-01-04    Minor Piece Activity: But what about the players with the black pieces? Lol, you don't mean that Capablanca, Vidmar, Fine, Trifunovic, Bernstein, Bogo, Yates, Spielmann, etc are patzers do you? =D Dec-02-04    Dudley: The stats for these 15 games do seem out of line, if that's what you mean. In D64 White still won 50% of the games out of a much larger sample size. This must be why people stopped playing the orthodox QGD and switched to the Tartakover or something else entirely. Its a pretty strong opening, imho. Dec-02-04    PinkPanther: <MPA> No, but the players of the white pieces (the really good ones) are more numerous than they are for black. Not to mention, Bogo, Capa, and Trifunovic account for the three draws anyway. Dec-04-04    Knight13: Sounds like this opening is very good for White. Dec-04-04    Dudley: The players involved do not entirely or even mostly account for the imbalanced winning % for White. Most of these games happened in the era when the Queen's Gambit was in top form and it was not yet generallly understood how best to handle it. Dec-04-04    Knight13: It's been decades. Can Black handle it now? Dec-06-04    Knight13: Black only won once. See V Petrov vs Fine, 1935.

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