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- Dutch Defense A80
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Dutch Defense
Overview
Dutch Defense is a variation within the Flank Openings family, indexed as ECO A84.
The Flank Openings group covers flank openings — systems that delay the central pawn break and instead develop pieces and pawns on the wings.
It is reached after 3 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. d4 f5 2. c4.
It is a variation of Dutch Defense, which itself descends from the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.
It branches into 3 notable variations — Bladel Variation, Classical Variation, Normal Variation.
Below the direct variations, the full subtree contains 33 documented sub-variations.
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- ECO code
- A84
- Group
- Flank Openings (A)
- Plies
- 3
- Parent
- Dutch Defense
- Direct variations
- 3
- Total in subtree
- 33
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Variations (3)
Show all 33 sub-variations (full subtree)
- A84 Bladel Variation 6-ply
- A84 Classical Variation 4-ply
- A84 Normal Variation 4-ply
- A84 Dutch Defense: Bellon Gambit 5-ply
- A86 Dutch Defense: Fianchetto Variation 5-ply
- A85 Dutch Defense: Queen's Knight Variation 5-ply
- A84 Dutch Defense: Rubinstein Variation 5-ply
- A90 Dutch Defense: Stonewall Variation, Modern Variation 12-ply
- A90 Dutch Defense: Classical Variation 7-ply
- A86 Dutch Defense: Hort-Antoshin System 10-ply
- A84 Dutch Defense: Krause Variation 8-ply
- A86 Dutch Defense: Leningrad Variation 6-ply
- A90 Dutch Defense: Classical Variation 9-ply
- A91 Dutch Defense: Classical Variation 8-ply
- A87 Dutch Defense: Leningrad Variation 9-ply
- A90 Dutch Defense: Nimzo-Dutch Variation 8-ply
- A92 Dutch Defense: Classical Variation 10-ply
- A91 Blackburne Attack 9-ply
- A90 Alekhine Variation 10-ply
- A92 Dutch Defense: Alekhine Variation 12-ply
- A96 Dutch Defense: Classical Variation 12-ply
- A92 Dutch Defense: Stonewall Variation 12-ply
- A96 Buenos Aires Variation 14-ply
- A96 Huisl Variation 14-ply
- A97 Ilyin-Zhenevsky Variation 14-ply
- A92 Dutch Defense: Stonewall Variation 13-ply
- A93 Botvinnik Variation 13-ply
- A98 Alatortsev-Lisitsyn Line 15-ply
- A99 Modern Main Line 15-ply
- A97 Winter Variation 15-ply
- A95 Dutch Defense: Stonewall Variation 14-ply
- A94 Dutch Defense: Stonewall Variation 15-ply
- A95 Chekhover Variation 17-ply