Tree path 4 levels English Opening › Anglo-Indian Defense › King's Knight Variation › English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense, Scandinavian Defense
- Chess Codex
- English Opening A10
- Anglo-Indian Defense A15
- King's Knight Variation A15
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English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense, Scandinavian Defense
Overview
English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense, Scandinavian Defense is a named branch in the Flank Openings group of chess theory, classified under ECO A15.
The Flank Openings group covers flank openings — systems that delay the central pawn break and instead develop pieces and pawns on the wings.
Play reaches this position via 1. c4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5, after 4 plies of opening development.
In the opening tree, this line branches off from English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense, King's Knight Variation, part of the broader English Opening system.
It continues primarily into one named line, Exchange Variation.
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- ECO code
- A15
- Group
- Flank Openings (A)
- Plies
- 4
- Direct variations
- 1
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