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- Queen's Pawn Game A40
- Dutch Defense A80
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Dutch Defense: Fianchetto Attack
Overview
Dutch Defense: Fianchetto Attack is a variation within the Flank Openings family, indexed as ECO A81.
The Flank Openings group covers flank openings — systems that delay the central pawn break and instead develop pieces and pawns on the wings.
The line arises from 3 plies — specifically the moves 1. d4 f5 2. g3.
It is a variation of Dutch Defense, which itself descends from the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.
It branches into 4 notable variations — Dutch Defense: Blackburne Variation, Dutch Defense: Leningrad Variation, Carlsbad Variation, Dutch Defense: Leningrad, Basman System, and others.
Together the deeper variations number 6 across the full subtree.
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- ECO code
- A81
- Group
- Flank Openings (A)
- Plies
- 3
- Parent
- Dutch Defense
- Direct variations
- 4
- Total in subtree
- 6
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Variations (4)
Show all 6 sub-variations (full subtree)
- A81 Dutch Defense: Blackburne Variation 7-ply
- A81 Dutch Defense: Leningrad Variation, Carlsbad Variation 7-ply
- A81 Dutch Defense: Leningrad, Basman System 10-ply
- A81 Dutch Defense: Semi-Leningrad Variation 6-ply
- A89 Dutch Defense: Leningrad Variation, Matulovic Variation 14-ply
- A88 Dutch Defense: Leningrad Variation, Warsaw Variation 14-ply