Exact catalogue record
Sicilian Defense: Alapin VariationB22
Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation is the source catalogue’s name for the exact position reached by the move order below. It is filed under ECO B22, in volume B (semi-open games, especially Sicilian, Caro-Kann, Pirc, Alekhine, and related systems).
On this page
- ECO code
- B22
- Opening family
- Sicilian 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
- rnbqkbnr/pp1ppppp/8/2p5/4P3/2P5/PP1P1PPP/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
Main continuations
- Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation, Anti-Alapin Gambit (B22)
- Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation, Barmen Defense (B22)
- Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation, Smith-Morra Declined (B22)
- Sicilian Defense: Heidenfeld Variation (B22)
- Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation, Stoltz Attack (B22)
Other records under Sicilian Defense
These records share the source catalogue’s family label; that relationship alone does not imply the same plans or resulting position.
- Sicilian Defense (B20)
- Sicilian Defense: Amazon Attack (B20)
- Sicilian Defense: Big Clamp Formation (B20)
- Sicilian Defense: Bowdler Attack (B20)
- Sicilian Defense: Brick Variation (B20)
- Sicilian Defense: Czerniak Attack (B20)
- Sicilian Defense: Czerniak Attack, Queen Fianchetto Variation (B20)
- Sicilian Defense: Euwe Attack, Prins Gambit (B20)
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