Tree path 4 levels Queen's Pawn Game › Zukertort Variation › Queen's Pawn Game: Symmetrical Variation › Queen's Pawn Game: Colle System
- Chess Codex
- Queen's Pawn Game D00
- Zukertort Variation D02
- Queen's Pawn Game: Symmetrical Variation D02
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Queen's Pawn Game: Colle System
Overview
Queen's Pawn Game: Colle System is a named branch in the Closed & Semi-Closed Games group of chess theory, classified under ECO D04.
The Closed & Semi-Closed Games group covers closed and semi-closed games — 1.d4 systems characterised by long strategic manoeuvring rather than early tactics.
It begins with 5 plies and takes 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e3 to reach the canonical position.
In the opening tree, this line branches off from Queen's Pawn Game: Symmetrical Variation, part of the broader Queen's Pawn Game system.
3 named variations grow from this line, including Queen's Pawn Game: Colle System, Anti-Colle, Grünfeld Formation.
Together the deeper variations number 7 across the full subtree.
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- ECO code
- D04
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 5
- Direct variations
- 3
- Total in subtree
- 7
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