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King's Indian Defense:Averbakh Variation

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Be2 O-O 6. Bg5

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Black to move

Legal moves
31
Games in the next 4 moves
1,727,601
Different positions among them
548,688
Named lines from here
10

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Named after Yuri Averbakh: Bg5 restrains Black’s usual ...e5 and ...f5 plans.

It is reached after 11 moves: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Be2 O-O 6. Bg5. It is a line of the King's Indian Defense.

Black is to move and has 31 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 1,727,601 different games. Those games reach 548,688 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 3.1 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 10 further lines after this position, such as Benoni Defense (6... c5) and Modern Defense (6... Na6).

The same moves can be played in 1,350 different legal orders that all reach this position. For example 1. d4 g6 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Be2 O-O 6. Bg5, which starts as the Queen's Pawn Game: Modern Defense.

Map of every game of the next four moves after the King's Indian Defense: Averbakh 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 1,727,601 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... Bg7King's Indian Defense
  7. 4. e4King's Indian Defense: Normal Variation
  8. 4... d6King's Indian Defense: Normal Variation
  9. 5. Be2King's Indian Defense: Normal Variation, Standard Development
  10. 5... O-O—
  11. 6. Bg5King's Indian Defense: Averbakh Variation

Named lines from here

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