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Queen's Indian Defense: Kasparov-Petrosian Variation
Overview
Queen's Indian Defense: Kasparov-Petrosian Variation is a variation within the Indian Defenses family, indexed as ECO E12.
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. Nf3 b6 4. a3 Bb7 5. Nc3, after 9 plies of opening development.
It is a variation of Queen's Indian Defense: Petrosian Variation, which itself descends from the root opening Indian Defense: Anti-Nimzo-Indian.
It branches into 4 notable variations — Andersson Variation, Hedgehog Variation, Main Line, and others.
In total, the branch covers 10 sub-variations across all depths.
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- ECO code
- E12
- Group
- Indian Defenses (E)
- Plies
- 9
- Direct variations
- 4
- Total in subtree
- 10
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Variations (4)
Show all 10 sub-variations (full subtree)
- E12 Andersson Variation 10-ply
- E12 Hedgehog Variation 10-ply
- E12 Main Line 10-ply
- E12 Marco Defense 10-ply
- E12 Queen's Indian Defense: Kasparov-Petrosian Variation, Classical Variation 12-ply
- E12 Queen's Indian Defense: Kasparov-Petrosian Variation, Modern Variation 12-ply
- E12 Queen's Indian Defense: Kasparov-Petrosian Variation, Kasparov Attack 13-ply
- E12 Queen's Indian Defense: Kasparov-Petrosian Variation, Petrosian Attack 13-ply
- E12 Queen's Indian Defense: Kasparov-Petrosian Variation, Rashkovsky Attack 13-ply
- E12 Queen's Indian Defense: Kasparov-Petrosian Variation, Romanishin Attack 13-ply