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Grünfeld Defense:Brinckmann Attack

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Bf4

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Black to move

Legal moves
31
Games in the next 4 moves
1,435,999
Different positions among them
463,429
Named lines from here
5

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It is reached after 7 moves: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Bf4. It is a line of the Grünfeld Defense.

Black is to move and has 31 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 1,435,999 different games. Those games reach 463,429 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 3.1 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 5 further lines after this position, such as Grünfeld Gambit (4... Bg7 5. e3 O-O).

The same moves can be played in 36 different legal orders that all reach this position. For example 1. c4 Nf6 2. d4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Bf4, which starts as the English Opening.

Map of every game of the next four moves after the Grünfeld Defense: Brinckmann Attack
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 1,435,999 games.

Move by move

  1. 1. d4Queen's Pawn Game
  2. 1... Nf6Indian Defense
  3. 2. c4Indian Defense: Normal Variation
  4. 2... g6Indian Defense: West Indian Defense
  5. 3. Nc3King's Indian Defense
  6. 3... d5Grünfeld Defense
  7. 4. Bf4Grünfeld Defense: Brinckmann Attack

Named lines from here

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