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Alekhine Defense:Modern Variation

1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. Nf3

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Black to move

Legal moves
31
Games in the next 4 moves
1,172,918
Different positions among them
386,776
Named lines from here
10

See it on the mapOn the opening map

It is reached after 7 moves: 1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. Nf3. It is a line of the Alekhine Defense.

Black is to move and has 31 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 1,172,918 different games. Those games reach 386,776 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 3 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 10 further lines after this position, such as Main Line (4... Bg4) and Alburt Variation (4... g6).

The same moves can be played in 36 different legal orders that all reach this position. For example 1. d4 Nf6 2. e4 Nd5 3. e5 d6 4. Nf3, which starts as the Queen's Pawn Game.

Map of every game of the next four moves after the Alekhine Defense: Modern Variation
Every game of the next four moves from this position, as the map draws it. Each ring is one more move; the outer ring holds all 1,172,918 games.

Move by move

  1. 1. e4King's Pawn Game
  2. 1... Nf6Alekhine Defense
  3. 2. e5—
  4. 2... Nd5Alekhine Defense: Normal Variation
  5. 3. d4Alekhine Defense
  6. 3... d6Alekhine Defense
  7. 4. Nf3Alekhine Defense: Modern Variation

Named lines from here

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