Dutch Defense
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Named variations of the Dutch Defense
Our opening book catalogues 69 named variations in this family. Here they all are:
- Alapin Variation
- Alapin Variation, Anti-Classical Line
- Alapin Variation, Anti-Classical, Manhattan Gambit
- Alapin Variation, Anti-Leningrad Variation
- Alapin Variation, Anti-Leningrad, Manhattan Gambit
- Alapin Variation, Anti-Modern Variation
- Alapin Variation, Anti-Modern, Manhattan Gambit
- Alapin Variation, Anti-Stonewall Variation
- Alapin Variation, Anti-Stonewall, Manhattan Gambit
- Alapin Variation, Pretzel Gambit
- Barcza Variation
- Bladel Variation
- Classical Variation
- Classical, Deferred Staunton Gambit
- Classical, Rubinstein Variation
- Classical, Stonewall Variation, Modern Variation
- Fianchetto Attack
- Fianchetto Variation
- Fianchetto, Antoshin-Hort Variation
- Fianchetto, Blackburne Attack
- Fianchetto, Blackburne Variation
- Fianchetto, Botvinnik-Bronstein Variation
- Fianchetto, Hort-Antoshin System
- Fianchetto, Ilyin-Zhenevsky Variation
- Fianchetto, Ilyin-Zhenevsky Variation with 7...Qe8
- Fianchetto, Ilyin-Zhenevsky, Alatortsev-Lisitsyn Line
- Fianchetto, Ilyin-Zhenevsky, Alekhine Variation
- Fianchetto, Ilyin-Zhenevsky, Buenos Aires Variation
- Fianchetto, Ilyin-Zhenevsky, Huisl Variation
- Fianchetto, Ilyin-Zhenevsky, Modern Main Line
- Fianchetto, Ilyin-Zhenevsky, Stonewall Variation
- Fianchetto, Ilyin-Zhenevsky, Stonewall, Botvinnik Variation
- Fianchetto, Ilyin-Zhenevsky, Stonewall, Chekhover Variation
- Fianchetto, Ilyin-Zhenevsky, Winter Variation
- Fianchetto, Leningrad Variation
- Fianchetto, Leningrad, Basman System
- Fianchetto, Leningrad, Karlsbad Variation
- Fianchetto, Nimzo-Dutch Variation
- Fianchetto, Nimzo-Dutch, Alekhine Variation
- Fianchetto, Semi-Leningrad Variation
- Hopton Attack
- Korchnoi Attack
- Korchnoi Attack, Janzen-Korchnoi Gambit
- Krejcik Gambit
- Krejcik, Hevendehl Gambit
- Krejcik, Tate Gambit
- Leningrad Variation
- Leningrad, Matulović Variation
- Leningrad, Warsaw Variation
- Normal Variation
- Omega-Isis Gambit
- Queen's Knight Variation
- Queen's Knight, Krause Variation
- Queen's Knight, Ozols Variation
- Raphael Variation
- Raphael, Kingfisher Gambit
- Raphael, Spielmann Gambit
- Senechaud Gambit
- Staunton Accepted, Alekhine Variation
- Staunton Accepted, American Attack
- Staunton Accepted, Blackmar's Second Gambit
- Staunton Accepted, Chigorin Variation
- Staunton Accepted, Chigorin, Lasker Gambit
- Staunton Accepted, Lasker Variation
- Staunton Accepted, Nimzowitsch Variation
- Staunton Accepted, Tartakower Variation
- Staunton Gambit
- Staunton Gambit Accepted
- Staunton, Balogh Defense
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