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Bogo-Indian Defense: Retreat Variation

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Overview

Bogo-Indian Defense: Retreat Variation is a variation within the Indian Defenses family, indexed as ECO E11.

The Indian Defenses group covers Indian defences — hypermodern lines where Black challenges the centre with pieces rather than pawns.

Play reaches this position via 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 Bb4+ 4. Bd2 Be7 5. Bg2 d5 6. Nf3 Nbd7 7. O-O O-O 8. Qc2 c6, after 16 plies of opening development.

It is a variation of Bogo-Indian Defense: Retreat Variation, which itself descends from the root opening Catalan Opening.

It branches into 3 notable variations — Bogo-Indian Defense: Retreat Variation, Bogo-Indian Defense: Retreat Variation, Bogo-Indian Defense: Retreat Variation.

In total, the branch covers 4 sub-variations across all depths.

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ECO code
E11
Group
Indian Defenses (E)
Plies
16
Parent
Bogo-Indian Defense: Retreat Variation
Direct variations
3
Total in subtree
4

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Variations (3)

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