Tree path 9 levels King's Pawn Game › Sicilian Defense › Sicilian Defense › Old Sicilian › Sicilian Defense: Open › Sicilian Defense: Open › Sicilian Defense: Open › Sicilian Defense: Open › Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation, Classical Variation, Amsterdam Variation
- Chess Codex
- King's Pawn Game B00
- Sicilian Defense B20
- Sicilian Defense B27
- Old Sicilian B30
- Sicilian Defense: Open B32
- Sicilian Defense: Open B32
- Sicilian Defense: Open B32
- Sicilian Defense: Open B33
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Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation, Classical Variation, Amsterdam Variation
Overview
Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation, Classical Variation, Amsterdam Variation is a variation within the Semi-Open Games family, indexed as ECO B72.
The Semi-Open Games group covers semi-open games — replies to 1.e4 where Black declines the symmetrical 1…e5 in favour of an asymmetric pawn structure.
It is reached after 15 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Be2 g6 7. Be3 Bg7 8. Qd2.
It is a variation of Sicilian Defense: Open, which itself descends from the root opening King's Pawn Game.
It continues primarily into one named line, Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation, Classical Variation, Grigoriev Variation.
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- ECO code
- B72
- Group
- Semi-Open Games (B)
- Plies
- 15
- Parent
- Sicilian Defense: Open
- Direct variations
- 1
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