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Slav Defense: Czech Variation, Krause Attack
Overview
Slav Defense: Czech Variation, Krause Attack is a variation within the Closed & Semi-Closed Games family, indexed as ECO D17.
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 11 plies and takes 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. a4 Bf5 6. Ne5 to reach the canonical position.
It is a variation of Slav Defense: Czech Variation, which itself descends from the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.
It branches into 3 notable variations — Slav Defense: Czech Variation, Carlsbad Variation, Fazekas Gambit, Slav Defense: Czech Variation, Wiesbaden Variation.
Together the deeper variations number 5 across the full subtree.
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- ECO code
- D17
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 11
- Direct variations
- 3
- Total in subtree
- 5
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