Exact catalogue record
Catalan Opening: ClosedE08
Catalan Opening: Closed is the source catalogue’s name for the exact position reached by the move order below. It is filed under ECO E08, in volume E (Indian defenses and other 1.d4 Nf6 systems).
On this page
- ECO code
- E08
- Opening family
- Catalan Opening
- Recorded half-moves
- 16
- Last numbered move
- 8
- Side to move
- White
- Castling rights
- No castling rights remain
- Material
- Material is level
- FEN
- r1bq1rk1/p2nbppp/1pp1pn2/3p4/2PP4/1P3NP1/P1Q1PPBP/RNB2RK1 w - - 0 9
Scope of this record
This page preserves a source name, one exact legal move sequence and its resulting FEN. It does not claim that the sequence is best, common or strategically self-contained. Opening names can cover several move orders; the links below report only parent, continuation and family relationships present in this catalogue.
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Comes from
Other records under Catalan Opening
These records share the source catalogue’s family label; that relationship alone does not imply the same plans or resulting position.
- Catalan Opening (E00)
- Catalan Opening (E00)
- Catalan Opening: Hungarian Gambit (E00)
- Catalan Opening: Closed (E01)
- Catalan Opening: Open Defense (E02)
- Catalan Opening: Open Defense (E03)
- Catalan Opening: Open Defense, Alekhine Variation (E03)
- Catalan Opening: Open Defense (E04)
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