Exact catalogue record
Grünfeld Defense: Exchange Variation, Simagin's Improved VariationD86
Grünfeld Defense: Exchange Variation, Simagin's Improved Variation is the source catalogue’s name for the exact position reached by the move order below. It is filed under ECO D86, in volume D (closed and semi-closed queen-pawn openings).
On this page
- ECO code
- D86
- Opening family
- Grünfeld Defense
- Recorded half-moves
- 16
- Last numbered move
- 8
- Side to move
- White
- Castling rights
- White kingside, White queenside
- Material
- Material is level
- FEN
- r1bq1rk1/ppp1ppbp/2n3p1/8/2BPP3/2P5/P3NPPP/R1BQK2R w KQ - 5 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 Grünfeld Defense
These records share the source catalogue’s family label; that relationship alone does not imply the same plans or resulting position.
- Grünfeld Defense: Three Knights Variation, Burille Variation, Reversed Tarrasch (A56)
- Grünfeld Defense (D80)
- Grünfeld Defense: Gibbon Gambit (D80)
- Grünfeld Defense: Lundin Variation (D80)
- Grünfeld Defense: Lutikov Variation (D80)
- Grünfeld Defense: Lutikov Variation, Murrey Attack (D80)
- Grünfeld Defense: Stockholm Variation (D80)
- Grünfeld Defense: Zaitsev Gambit (D80)
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