Opening family
Dutch Defense Lines and Variations
The Dutch Defense family contains 68 named lines in this opening book, spanning ECO A80 to A99. Use this page as the map, then open individual lines for exact move orders and diagrams.
How to study this family
White
White should use the move order as a checkpoint: finish development, identify the central break, and compare the continuations below before memorizing moves.
Black
Black should ask what White is threatening in the center, then choose development moves that prepare a clean pawn break or a useful exchange.
Start with the shortest line, then branch to the variations that change the pawn structure or tactical target. Memorizing every branch before understanding the family plan is usually wasted work.
Main named lines
- A80 · Dutch Defense
- A80 · Dutch Defense: Alapin Variation
- A80 · Dutch Defense: Hopton Attack
- A80 · Dutch Defense: Korchnoi Attack
- A80 · Dutch Defense: Krejcik Gambit
- A80 · Dutch Defense: Raphael Variation
- A81 · Dutch Defense: Fianchetto Attack
- A82 · Dutch Defense: Staunton Gambit
- A84 · Dutch Defense
- A80 · Dutch Defense: Hevendehl Gambit
- A80 · Dutch Defense: Omega-Isis Gambit
- A82 · Dutch Defense: Staunton Gambit Accepted
- A84 · Dutch Defense: Classical Variation
- A84 · Dutch Defense: Normal Variation
- A80 · Dutch Defense: Janzen-Korchnoi Gambit
- A80 · Dutch Defense: Kingfisher Gambit
- A80 · Dutch Defense: Manhattan Gambit, Anti-Classical Line
- A80 · Dutch Defense: Manhattan Gambit, Anti-Leningrad
- A80 · Dutch Defense: Manhattan Gambit, Anti-Modern
- A80 · Dutch Defense: Manhattan Gambit, Anti-Stonewall
- A80 · Dutch Defense: Senechaud Gambit
- A80 · Dutch Defense: Spielmann Gambit
- A82 · Dutch Defense: Staunton Gambit, American Attack
- A84 · Dutch Defense: Bellon Gambit
Deep theory branches
- 1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. g3 e6 4. Bg2 Be7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. O-O d5 7. Nc3 c6 8. Qc2 Qe8 9. Bg5 — Dutch Defense: Stonewall Variation, Chekhover Variation
- 1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. g3 e6 4. Bg2 Be7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. O-O d5 7. b3 c6 8. Ba3 — Dutch Defense: Stonewall Variation
- 1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. g3 e6 4. Bg2 Be7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. O-O d6 7. Nc3 Qe8 8. Re1 — Dutch Defense: Classical Variation, Ilyin-Zhenevsky Variation, Winter Variation
- 1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. g3 e6 4. Bg2 Be7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. O-O d6 7. Nc3 Qe8 8. Qc2 — Dutch Defense: Classical Variation, Ilyin-Zhenevsky Variation, Alatortsev-Lisitsyn Line
- 1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. g3 e6 4. Bg2 Be7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. O-O d6 7. Nc3 Qe8 8. b3 — Dutch Defense: Classical Variation, Ilyin-Zhenevsky Variation, Modern Main Line
- 1. d4 f5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. O-O O-O 6. c4 d6 7. Nc3 c6 — Dutch Defense: Leningrad Variation, Warsaw Variation
- 1. d4 f5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. O-O O-O 6. c4 d6 7. Nc3 Nc6 — Dutch Defense: Leningrad Variation, Matulovic Variation
- 1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. g3 e6 4. Bg2 Be7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. O-O d5 7. Nc3 c6 — Dutch Defense: Stonewall Variation
- 1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. g3 e6 4. Bg2 Be7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. O-O d6 7. Nc3 a5 — Dutch Defense: Classical Variation, Buenos Aires Variation
- 1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. g3 e6 4. Bg2 Be7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. O-O d6 7. Nc3 Ne4 — Dutch Defense: Classical Variation, Huisl Variation
- 1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. g3 e6 4. Bg2 Be7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. O-O d6 7. Nc3 Qe8 — Dutch Defense: Classical Variation, Ilyin-Zhenevsky Variation
- 1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. g3 e6 4. Bg2 Be7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. O-O d5 7. Nc3 — Dutch Defense: Stonewall Variation
- 1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. g3 e6 4. Bg2 Be7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. O-O d5 7. b3 — Dutch Defense: Stonewall Variation, Botvinnik Variation
- 1. d4 f5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. g3 c6 5. Bg2 d5 6. O-O Bd6 — Dutch Defense: Stonewall Variation, Modern Variation
- 1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. g3 e6 4. Bg2 Be7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. O-O Ne4 — Dutch Defense: Alekhine Variation
- 1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. g3 e6 4. Bg2 Be7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. O-O d5 — Dutch Defense: Stonewall Variation