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Sicilian Defense:Najdorf Variation, English Attack

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3

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Black to move

Legal moves
30
Games in the next 4 moves
1,846,773
Different positions among them
603,478
Named lines from here
9

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White plays Be3, f3 and Qd2, castles long and throws the kingside pawns forward: one of the most popular answers to the Najdorf.

It is reached after 11 moves: 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3. It is a line of the Sicilian Defense.

Black is to move and has 30 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 1,846,773 different games. Those games reach 603,478 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 3.1 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 9 further lines after this position, such as Scheveningen Variation, Delayed Keres Attack (6... e6 7. g4) and Anti-English (6... Ng4).

The same moves can be played in 3,552 different legal orders that all reach this position. For example 1. e4 d6 2. Nf3 c5 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3, which starts as the Pirc Defense.

Map of every game of the next four moves after the Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation, English 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 1,846,773 games.

Move by move

  1. 1. e4King's Pawn Game
  2. 1... c5Sicilian Defense
  3. 2. Nf3Sicilian Defense
  4. 2... d6Sicilian Defense: Modern Variations
  5. 3. d4Sicilian Defense
  6. 3... cxd4Sicilian Defense
  7. 4. Nxd4—
  8. 4... Nf6Sicilian Defense: Modern Variations, Main Line
  9. 5. Nc3—
  10. 5... a6Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation
  11. 6. Be3Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation, English Attack

Named lines from here

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