Exact catalogue record
Dutch Defense: Classical VariationA96
Dutch Defense: Classical Variation is the source catalogue’s name for the exact position reached by the move order below. It is filed under ECO A96, in volume A (flank openings, irregular first moves, and many English/Reti structures).
On this page
- ECO code
- A96
- Opening family
- Dutch Defense
- Recorded half-moves
- 12
- Last numbered move
- 6
- Side to move
- White
- Castling rights
- No castling rights remain
- Material
- Material is level
- FEN
- rnbq1rk1/ppp1b1pp/3ppn2/5p2/2PP4/5NP1/PP2PPBP/RNBQ1RK1 w - - 0 7
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
Main continuations
- Dutch Defense: Classical Variation, Buenos Aires Variation (A96)
- Dutch Defense: Classical Variation, Huisl Variation (A96)
- Dutch Defense: Classical Variation, Ilyin-Zhenevsky Variation (A97)
Other records under Dutch Defense
These records share the source catalogue’s family label; that relationship alone does not imply the same plans or resulting position.
- Dutch Defense (A80)
- Dutch Defense: Alapin Variation (A80)
- Dutch Defense: Hevendehl Gambit (A80)
- Dutch Defense: Hopton Attack (A80)
- Dutch Defense: Janzen-Korchnoi Gambit (A80)
- Dutch Defense: Kingfisher Gambit (A80)
- Dutch Defense: Korchnoi Attack (A80)
- Dutch Defense: Krejcik Gambit (A80)
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