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Queen's Pawn Game: Zukertort Variation
Overview
Queen's Pawn Game: Zukertort Variation is a variation within the Closed & Semi-Closed Games family, indexed as ECO D02.
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 3 plies and takes 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 to reach the canonical position.
It is a direct variation of Queen's Pawn Game.
It is the root of 6 named variations, with Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Pseudo-Slav, Queen's Pawn Game: Chigorin Variation, Queen's Pawn Game: Krause Variation, and others among the most studied.
Together the deeper variations number 29 across the full subtree.
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- ECO code
- D02
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 3
- Parent
- Queen's Pawn Game
- Direct variations
- 6
- Total in subtree
- 29
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Variations (6)
Show all 29 sub-variations (full subtree)
- D02 Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Pseudo-Slav 8-ply
- D02 Queen's Pawn Game: Chigorin Variation 4-ply
- D02 Queen's Pawn Game: Krause Variation 4-ply
- D02 Queen's Pawn Game: Levitsky Attack, Euwe Variation, Modern Line 8-ply
- D02 Queen's Pawn Game: London System, with e6 5-ply
- D02 Queen's Pawn Game: Symmetrical Variation 4-ply
- D67 Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Janowski Variation 19-ply
- D60 Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Rauzer Variation 13-ply
- D65 Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Rubinstein Attack 17-ply
- D02 Queen's Pawn Game: Chandler Gambit 7-ply
- D04 Queen's Pawn Game: Colle System 5-ply
- D02 Queen's Pawn Game: London System 5-ply
- D02 Pseudo-Catalan 5-ply
- D03 Queen's Pawn Game: Torre Attack 5-ply
- D02 Queen's Pawn Game: Zilbermints Countergambit 6-ply
- D05 Queen's Pawn Game: Zukertort Variation 9-ply
- D49 Semi-Slav Defense: Meran Variation, Sozin Variation 25-ply
- D45 Semi-Slav Defense: Stoltz Variation 13-ply
- D45 Semi-Slav Defense: Stonewall Defense 12-ply
- D05 Queen's Pawn Game: Colle System 6-ply
- D04 Anti-Colle 6-ply
- D04 Grünfeld Formation 8-ply
- D03 Gossip Variation 6-ply
- D03 Grünfeld Variation 6-ply
- D45 Semi-Slav Defense: Stoltz Variation 15-ply
- D05 Queen's Pawn Game: Colle System 7-ply
- D05 Rubinstein Opening: Semi-Slav Defense 13-ply
- D05 Rubinstein Opening: Semi-Slav Defense 14-ply
- D05 Rubinstein Opening: Semi-Slav Defense 15-ply