Tree path 7 levels Queen's Pawn Game › Queen's Gambit › Slav Defense › Modern Line › Slav Defense: Quiet Variation › Schallopp Defense › Slav Defense: Exchange Variation, Schallopp Variation
- Chess Codex
- Queen's Pawn Game D00
- Queen's Gambit D06
- Slav Defense D10
- Modern Line D11
- Slav Defense: Quiet Variation D11
- Schallopp Defense D12
- Slav Defense: Exchange Variation, Schallopp Variation D13 you are here
Slav Defense: Exchange Variation, Schallopp Variation
Overview
Slav Defense: Exchange Variation, Schallopp Variation is a variation within the Closed & Semi-Closed Games family, indexed as ECO D13.
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 Bf5 5. cxd5 cxd5 6. Nc3, after 11 plies of opening development.
It is a variation of Slav Defense: Quiet Variation, Schallopp Defense, which itself descends from the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.
It continues primarily into one named line, Slav Defense: Quiet Variation, Amsterdam Variation.
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- ECO code
- D13
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 11
- Direct variations
- 1
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