About this opening
Queen's Gambit Declined: Tarrasch Defense, Stoltz Variation is an opening in the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings,
classified under code D34. ECO group D (D00–D99)
covers closed games and semi-closed games beginning 1.d4 d5, covering the Queen's Gambit, Slav, Grünfeld and related queen-pawn structures. This particular variation is reached
after 20 half-moves from the
starting position, with the move sequence 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 c5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. g3 Nc6 6. Bg2 Nf6 7. O-O Be7 8. Nc3 O-O 9. Bg5 Be6 10. Rc1 b6.
It belongs to the Queen's Gambit Declined family.
Within that family this is a level-2 branch (the Tarrasch Defense → Stoltz Variation line). The immediate parent line is Queen's Gambit Declined: Tarrasch Defense, transitioned via 10…b6.
The opening sequence in prose form: 1.d4 d5, 2.c4 e6, 3.Nf3 c5, 4.cxd5 exd5, 5.g3 Nc6, 6.Bg2 Nf6. From this position the encyclopaedia records no further canonical continuations — practical play branches into unnamed transpositions or returns to the parent line for alternative ideas.
Use the interactive board above to walk through the moves position-by-position. Click any move in the navigation to step backwards, or use the keyboard arrow keys. For statistical data — how often master-level players have reached this position, White's win-rate, draw frequency, Black's score — see the panel in the right column.
Caissly's coverage of D34 extends through every named sub-variation in this line and across all four locales (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian). Where editorial commentary exists for a specific variation it appears as the page body; otherwise the page presents the structural data, board, and statistics as shown here.