Exact catalogue record
Semi-Slav Defense: Botvinnik Variation, Szabo VariationD44
Semi-Slav Defense: Botvinnik Variation, Szabo Variation is the source catalogue’s name for the exact position reached by the move order below. It is filed under ECO D44, in volume D (closed and semi-closed queen-pawn openings).
On this page
- ECO code
- D44
- Opening family
- Semi-Slav Defense
- Recorded half-moves
- 21
- Last numbered move
- 11
- Side to move
- Black
- Castling rights
- White kingside, White queenside, Black kingside, Black queenside
- Material
- Black is ahead by 2 points
- FEN
- r1bqkb1r/p2n1p2/2p1pn2/1p2P1B1/2pP4/2N2Q2/PP3PPP/R3KB1R b KQkq - 2 11
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 Semi-Slav Defense
These records share the source catalogue’s family label; that relationship alone does not imply the same plans or resulting position.
- Semi-Slav Defense: Quiet Variation (D30)
- Semi-Slav Defense: Quiet Variation (D30)
- Semi-Slav Defense: Accelerated Move Order (D31)
- Semi-Slav Defense: Anti-Noteboom, Stonewall Variation, Portisch Gambit (D31)
- Semi-Slav Defense: Gunderam Gambit (D31)
- Semi-Slav Defense: Marshall Gambit (D31)
- Semi-Slav Defense: Marshall Gambit, Forgotten Variation (D31)
- Semi-Slav Defense: Marshall Gambit, Main Line (D31)
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