Chess opening
Dutch Defense: Classical Variation, Ilyin-Zhenevsky VariationA97
The Dutch Defense: Classical Variation, Ilyin-Zhenevsky Variation is a chess opening classified under ECO code A97. It is reached after the moves:
1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. g3 e6 4. Bg2 Be7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. O-O d6 7. Nc3 Qe8
Play it vs Stockfish Open in analysis board
Comes from
Main continuations
- Dutch Defense: Classical Variation, Ilyin-Zhenevsky Variation, Alatortsev-Lisitsyn Line (A98)
- Dutch Defense: Classical Variation, Ilyin-Zhenevsky Variation, Modern Main Line (A99)
- Dutch Defense: Classical Variation, Ilyin-Zhenevsky Variation, Winter Variation (A97)
Related lines in the Dutch Defense
- 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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