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Van Geet Opening

1. Nc3

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Black to move

Legal moves
20
Games in the next 4 moves
234,656
Different positions among them
84,254
Named lines from here
27

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Also called the Dunst Opening; named after the Dutch player Dirk Daniel van Geet. White develops the queen’s knight first and waits to see Black’s setup.

It is reached after a single move: 1. Nc3.

Black is to move and has 20 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 234,656 different games. Those games reach 84,254 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 2.8 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 27 further lines after this position, such as Reversed Nimzowitsch (1... e5) and Pfeiffer Gambit (1... d5 2. f4 d4 3. Ne4 e5).

Map of every game of the next four moves after the Van Geet Opening
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 234,656 games.

Move by move

  1. 1. Nc3Van Geet Opening

Named lines from here

…and 4 more on the map.

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FEN

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