Exact catalogue record

Indian Defense: Normal VariationA50

Indian Defense: Normal Variation is the source catalogue’s name for the exact position reached by the move order below. It is filed under ECO A50, in volume A (flank openings, irregular first moves, and many English/Reti structures).

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3. Main continuations
4. Other records under Indian Defense
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ECO code

A50

Opening family

Indian Defense

Recorded half-moves

3

Last numbered move

2

Side to move

Black

Castling rights

White kingside, White queenside, Black kingside, Black queenside

Material

Material is level

FEN

rnbqkb1r/pppppppp/5n2/8/2PP4/8/PP2PPPP/RNBQKBNR b KQkq - 0 2

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

• Indian Defense (A45)

Main continuations

• Benoni Defense (A56)
• Indian Defense: Budapest Gambit (A51)
• Indian Defense: Medusa Gambit (A50)
• Indian Defense: Pyrenees Gambit (A50)
• Indian Defense: West Indian Defense (E60)
• Mexican Defense (A50)
• Old Indian Defense (A53)
• Queen's Indian Accelerated (A50)
• Slav Indian (A50)
• Catalan Opening (E00)
• Indian Defense (E00)
• Indian Defense: Anti-Nimzo-Indian (E10)

Other records under Indian Defense

These records share the source catalogue’s family label; that relationship alone does not imply the same plans or resulting position.

• Indian Defense: Pseudo-Benko (A43)
• Indian Defense (A45)
• Indian Defense: Accelerated London System (A45)
• Indian Defense: Gedult Attack (A45)
• Indian Defense: Gibbins-Weidenhagen Gambit (A45)
• Indian Defense: Gibbins-Weidenhagen Gambit Accepted (A45)
• Indian Defense: Gibbins-Weidenhagen Gambit, Maltese Falcon (A45)
• Indian Defense: Gibbins-Weidenhagen Gambit, Oshima Defense (A45)

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