E15 · Indian · a defense for Black
Queen's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation, Nimzowitsch Variation, Timman's Line
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1.d4Nf62.c4e63.Nf3b64.g3Ba65.Qb3
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Queen's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation, Nimzowitsch Variation, Timman's Line573 games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
33%18847%
19%10848%
16%8938%
16%8945%
9.4%5435%
7%4038%
0.2%10%
0.2%10%
0.2%1100%
0.2%10%
Famous games in this line904 master games
Caruana, Fabiano (2767) – Karjakin, Sergey (2766)Ponomariov, Ruslan (2764) – Ivanchuk, Vassily (2768)Vachier Lagrave, M. (2757) – Karjakin, Sergey (2767)Kramnik, Vladimir (2809) – Leko, Peter (2713)Morozevich, Alexander (2741) – Anand, Viswanathan (2779)Gelfand, B. (2748) – Karjakin, Sergey (2767)Morozevich, Alexander (2736) – Karjakin, Sergey (2776)Anand, Viswanathan (2817) – Sasikiran, Krishnan (2689)- Family
- Queen's Indian Defense
- Category
- Indian
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- E15
- Line
- 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. Qb3
FianchettoPositionalHypermodern
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