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The idea of the Queen's Gambit is to exercise pressure on the bishop's file. If Black plays in order to avoid such pressure sooner or later ...c5, White, by an exchange of pawns in the centre, isolates the pawn at d5 and attacks the latter.
Richard Réti, Modern Ideas In Chess

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