Tree path 7 levels Queen's Pawn Game › Queen's Gambit › Slav Defense › Modern Line › Slav Defense: Quiet Variation › Semi-Slav Defense: Quiet Variation › Semi-Slav Defense: Quiet Variation
- Chess Codex
- Queen's Pawn Game D00
- Queen's Gambit D06
- Slav Defense D10
- Modern Line D11
- Slav Defense: Quiet Variation D11
- Semi-Slav Defense: Quiet Variation D30
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Semi-Slav Defense: Quiet Variation
Overview
Semi-Slav Defense: Quiet Variation is a specific line in the Closed & Semi-Closed Games family (ECO D30), arising from a recognised theoretical position.
The Closed & Semi-Closed Games group covers closed and semi-closed games — 1.d4 systems characterised by long strategic manoeuvring rather than early tactics.
Play reaches this position via 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Nbd2 Nbd7, after 10 plies of opening development.
The line refines Semi-Slav Defense: Quiet Variation, which traces back to the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.
It continues primarily into one named line, Queen's Gambit Declined: Semmering Variation.
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- ECO code
- D30
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 10
- Direct variations
- 1
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