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Sicilian Defense:Velimirovic Attack

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bc4 e6 7. Be3 Be7 8. Qe2

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Black to move

Legal moves
33
Games in the next 4 moves
2,677,694
Different positions among them
854,418
Named lines from here
0

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Named after Dragoljub Velimirović. White adds Qe2 and castles long, preparing piece sacrifices against Black’s king.

It is reached after 15 moves: 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bc4 e6 7. Be3 Be7 8. Qe2. It is a line of the Sicilian Defense.

Black is to move and has 33 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 2,677,694 different games. Those games reach 854,418 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 3.1 on average.

No later position on this line has a name of its own in the Lichess opening list: the names end here.

Map of every game of the next four moves after the Sicilian Defense: Velimirovic 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 2,677,694 games.

Move by move

  1. 1. e4King's Pawn Game
  2. 1... c5Sicilian Defense
  3. 2. Nf3Sicilian Defense
  4. 2... Nc6Sicilian Defense: Old Sicilian
  5. 3. d4Sicilian Defense: Open
  6. 3... cxd4Sicilian Defense: Open
  7. 4. Nxd4Sicilian Defense: Open
  8. 4... Nf6Sicilian Defense: Open
  9. 5. Nc3—
  10. 5... d6Sicilian Defense: Classical Variation
  11. 6. Bc4Sicilian Defense: Classical Variation, Sozin Attack
  12. 6... e6Sicilian Defense: Sozin Attack, Leonhardt Variation
  13. 7. Be3Sicilian Defense: Sozin Attack, Main Line
  14. 7... Be7—
  15. 8. Qe2Sicilian Defense: Velimirovic Attack

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