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A04Opening

Zukertort Opening

1. Nf3

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Black to move

Legal moves
20
Games in the next 4 moves
233,491
Different positions among them
83,670
Named lines from here
90

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Named after Johannes Zukertort. A flexible first move: White develops a knight, keeps the pawns back and can still go into the Réti, the English or a queen’s pawn game.

It is reached after a single move: 1. Nf3.

Black is to move and has 20 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 233,491 different games. Those games reach 83,670 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 2.8 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 90 further lines after this position, such as Dutch Variation (1... f5) and Pirc Invitation (1... d6).

Map of every game of the next four moves after the Zukertort Opening
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 233,491 games.

Move by move

  1. 1. Nf3Zukertort Opening

Named lines from here

…and 4 more on the map.

Famous games through this position

The Game of the CenturyD. Byrne – Fischer, New York 1956, move 1Thirteen-year-old Bobby Fischer gives up his queen and wins.

Related openings

FEN

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