Exact catalogue record
Semi-Slav DefenseD43
Semi-Slav Defense is the source catalogue’s name for the exact position reached by the move order below. It is filed under ECO D43, in volume D (closed and semi-closed queen-pawn openings).
On this page
- ECO code
- D43
- Opening family
- Semi-Slav Defense
- Recorded half-moves
- 8
- Last numbered move
- 4
- Side to move
- White
- Castling rights
- White kingside, White queenside, Black kingside, Black queenside
- Material
- Material is level
- FEN
- rnbqkb1r/pp3ppp/2p1pn2/3p4/2PP4/2N2N2/PP2PPPP/R1BQKB1R w KQkq - 0 5
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
Main continuations
- Semi-Slav Defense Accepted (D44)
- Queen's Gambit Declined (D52)
- Semi-Slav Defense: Anti-Moscow Gambit (D43)
- Semi-Slav Defense: Moscow Variation (D43)
- Semi-Slav Defense: Stoltz Variation, Center Variation (D45)
- Semi-Slav Defense: Stoltz Variation, Shabalov Attack (D45)
- Semi-Slav Defense: Meran Variation, Lundin Variation (D47)
- Semi-Slav Defense: Meran Variation, Reynolds' Variation (D48)
- Semi-Slav Defense: Meran Variation, Sozin Variation (D49)
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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