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Pirc Defense:Classical Variation

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Nf3

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Black to move

Legal moves
31
Games in the next 4 moves
1,300,644
Different positions among them
424,967
Named lines from here
6

See it on the mapOn the opening map

It is reached after 7 moves: 1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Nf3. It is a line of the Pirc Defense.

Black is to move and has 31 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 1,300,644 different games. Those games reach 424,967 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 3.1 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 6 further lines after this position.

The same moves can be played in 144 different legal orders that all reach this position. For example 1. d4 d6 2. e4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Nf3, which starts as the Queen's Pawn Game.

Map of every game of the next four moves after the Pirc Defense: Classical 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 1,300,644 games.

Move by move

  1. 1. e4King's Pawn Game
  2. 1... d6Pirc Defense
  3. 2. d4Pirc Defense
  4. 2... Nf6Pirc Defense
  5. 3. Nc3—
  6. 3... g6Pirc Defense
  7. 4. Nf3Pirc Defense: Classical Variation

Named lines from here

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