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A86Opening

Dutch Defense:Leningrad Variation

1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. g3 g6

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White to move

Legal moves
31
Games in the next 4 moves
643,111
Different positions among them
212,979
Named lines from here
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Black adds a kingside fianchetto with ...g6 and ...Bg7, combining the Dutch with King’s Indian ideas.

It is reached after 6 moves: 1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. g3 g6. It is a line of the Dutch Defense.

White is to move and has 31 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 643,111 different games. Those games reach 212,979 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 3 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 1 further line after this position.

The same moves can be played in 18 different legal orders that all reach this position. For example 1. c4 f5 2. d4 Nf6 3. g3 g6, which starts as the English Opening.

Map of every game of the next four moves after the Dutch Defense: Leningrad Variation
Every game of the next four moves from this position, as the map draws it. Each ring is one more move; the outer ring holds all 643,111 games.

Move by move

  1. 1. d4Queen's Pawn Game
  2. 1... f5Dutch Defense
  3. 2. c4Dutch Defense
  4. 2... Nf6Dutch Defense: Normal Variation
  5. 3. g3Dutch Defense: Fianchetto Variation
  6. 3... g6Dutch Defense: Leningrad Variation

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