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Queen's Gambit Declined
THE SEMI-SLAV DEFENCE
White's QKt supported a planned eventual P-K4.
Black rejects the Orthodox for the Semi-Slav, pushing his Queen's Bishop's Pawn out to QB3(c6) for triple QP support, and threatening to take and defend awhile (by ..P-QKt4) the gambit QBP. B-Alt.
     White   Black
 1.  P-Q4    P-Q4
 2.  P-QB4   P-K3   Alt. Slav D. route
 3.  Kt-QB3  P-QB3  Transp.from Engl.O.
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