Grünfeld Defense

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Named variations of the Grünfeld Defense

Our opening book catalogues 50 named variations in this family. Here they all are:

• Accelerated Russian Variation
• Brinckmann Attack
• Brinckmann, Capablanca Variation
• Brinckmann, Capablanca, Botvinnik Variation
• Brinckmann, Capablanca, Reshevsky Gambit
• Brinckmann, Grünfeld Gambit
• Brinckmann, Grünfeld Gambit Accepted
• Burille Variation
• Burille, Opočenský Variation
• Burille, Paris Variation
• Burille, Paris, Flohr Defense
• Burille, Vienna Variation
• Burille, Vienna, Botvinnik Variation
• Burille, Vienna, Pachman Variation
• Exchange Variation
• Exchange, Classical Variation
• Exchange, Classical, Improved Simagin Variation
• Exchange, Classical, Larsen Variation
• Exchange, Classical, Lesser Simagin Variation
• Exchange, Classical, Seville Variation
• Exchange, Kemeri Variation
• Exchange, Main Line
• Exchange, Main Line, Sokolsky Variation
• Exchange, Modern Exchange Variation
• Exchange, Modern Exchange, Kramnik Variation
• Exchange, Modern Exchange, Pawn Grab Line
• Exchange, Nadanian Attack
• Flohr Variation
• Gibbon Gambit
• Hungarian Attack
• Kemeri Variation
• Lutikov Variation
• Lutikov, Murey Attack
• Petrosian System
• Russian Variation
• Russian, Byrne Variation
• Russian, Hungarian Variation
• Russian, Levenfish Variation
• Russian, Prins Variation
• Russian, Smyslov Variation
• Russian, Smyslov, Keres Variation
• Russian, Smyslov, Main Line
• Russian, Smyslov, Main Line, Yugoslav Variation
• Russian, Szabó Variation
• Schlechter Variation
• Schlechter, Makogonov Variation
• Stockholm Variation
• Stockholm, Lundin Variation
• Three Knights Variation
• Zaitsev Gambit

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