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A45Opening

Indian Defense

1. d4 Nf6

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White to move

Legal moves
28
Games in the next 4 moves
425,466
Different positions among them
148,580
Named lines from here
685

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1...Nf6 keeps Black’s options open: the Nimzo-Indian, the King’s Indian, the Grünfeld and many other defences can follow.

It is reached after 2 moves: 1. d4 Nf6.

White is to move and has 28 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 425,466 different games. Those games reach 148,580 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 2.9 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 685 further lines after this position, such as Trompowsky Attack (2. Bg5) and Normal Variation (2. c4).

Map of every game of the next four moves after the Indian Defense
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 425,466 games.

Move by move

  1. 1. d4Queen's Pawn Game
  2. 1... Nf6Indian Defense

Named lines from here

Famous games through this position

Botvinnik's Bishop SacrificeBotvinnik – Capablanca, AVRO 1938, move 1Botvinnik beats former world champion Capablanca with a bishop sacrifice on move 30. The Immortal Zugzwang GameSämisch – Nimzowitsch, Copenhagen 1923, move 1White still has plenty of pieces, but every move he could make loses.

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