King's Indian Defense

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Named variations of the King's Indian Defense

Our opening book catalogues 112 named variations in this family. Here they all are:

• Accelerated Averbakh Variation
• Advance Anti-Grünfeld Variation
• Advance Anti-Grünfeld, Danube Gambit
• Advance Anti-Grünfeld, Danube, Donau Gambit
• Alekhine Anti-Grünfeld Variation
• Alekhine Anti-Grünfeld, Leko Gambit
• Alekhine Anti-Grünfeld, Neo-Grünfeld Defense, Goglidze Attack
• Averbakh Variation
• Averbakh, Benoni Defense
• Averbakh, Benoni, Advance Variation
• Averbakh, Benoni, Advance, Main Line
• Averbakh, Benoni, Exchange Variation
• Averbakh, Flexible Defense
• Averbakh, Geller Defense
• Averbakh, Modern Defense
• Averbakh, Modern, Burgess Line
• Averbakh, Spanish Defense
• Bayonet Attack
• Bayonet, Sokolov Line
• Bayonet, Yepishin Line
• Classical System
• Debrecen, Classical Main, Double Fianchetto Attack
• Deferred Fianchetto Variation
• Deferred Fianchetto, Pomar System
• Fianchetto Variation
• Fianchetto, Debrecen Defense
• Fianchetto, Debrecen, Classical Main Line
• Fianchetto, Debrecen, Classical Main, Double Fianchetto Attack
• Fianchetto, Debrecen, Classical Main, Long Variation
• Fianchetto, Karlsbad Variation
• Fianchetto, Karlsbad, Panno Variation
• Fianchetto, Karlsbad, Panno, Blockade Line
• Fianchetto, Karlsbad, Panno, Donner Line
• Fianchetto, Karlsbad, Panno, Korchnoi Line
• Fianchetto, Karlsbad, Panno, Lesser Simagin Variation
• Fianchetto, Karlsbad, Panno, Simagin Variation
• Fianchetto, Karlsbad, Panno, Uhlmann-Szabó System
• Fianchetto, Yugoslav System
• Fianchetto, Yugoslav Variation, Rare Line
• Fianchetto, Yugoslav, Kaválek-Bronstein Variation
• Fianchetto, Yugoslav, Kaválek-Bronstein, Benjamin Defense
• Fianchetto, Yugoslav, Kaválek-Bronstein, Kaválek Defense
• Fianchetto, Yugoslav, Kaválek-Bronstein, Larsen Defense
• Fianchetto, Yugoslav, Panno System
• Fianchetto, Yugoslav, Panno, Fianchetto Variation, Hungarian Variation
• Fianchetto, Yugoslav, Rare, Advance Line
• Fianchetto, Yugoslav, Rare, Exchange Variation
• Four Pawns Attack
• Four Pawns, Dynamic Line
• Four Pawns, Florentine Gambit
• Four Pawns, Fluid Attack
• Four Pawns, Fluid Attack, Exchange Variation
• Four Pawns, Modern Defense
• Four Pawns, Normal Attack
• Four Pawns, Six Pawns Attack
• Gligorić System
• Kramer Variation
• Larsen Variation
• Makogonov Variation
• Mengarini Attack
• Neo-Classical Line
• Neo-Classical, Kožul Gambit
• Normal Variation
• Normal, Fianchetto Variation
• Normal, Fianchetto, Karlsbad, Panno Variation
• Normal, Smyslov Variation
• Orthodox Variation
• Orthodox, Aronin-Taimanov Defense
• Orthodox, Aronin-Taimanov, Korchnoi Attack
• Orthodox, Donner Defense
• Orthodox, Exchange Variation
• Orthodox, Glek Defense
• Orthodox, Kazakh Variation
• Orthodox, Modern System
• Orthodox, Positional Defense
• Orthodox, Positional Defense, Closed Line
• Orthodox, Ukrainian Defense
• Petrosian Variation
• Petrosian Variation, Main Line
• Petrosian Variation, Main Line, Keres Defense
• Petrosian Variation, Stein Defense
• Positional Defense, Main Line
• Pterodactyl Defense
• Santasiere Variation
• Semi-Averbakh System
• Semi-Classical Variation
• Semi-Classical, Benoni Variation
• Semi-Classical, Exchange Variation
• Semi-Classical, Hollywood Variation
• Semi-Classical, Queenside Storm Line
• Smyslov Variation
• Standard Development
• Sämisch Gambit Accepted
• Sämisch Variation
• Sämisch, Bobotsov-Korchnoi-Petrosian Variation
• Sämisch, Bronstein Variation
• Sämisch, Byrne Defense
• Sämisch, Closed, Main Line
• Sämisch, Double Fianchetto Variation
• Sämisch, Normal Defense
• Sämisch, Orthodox Variation
• Sämisch, Orthodox, Closed
• Sämisch, Orthodox, Closed, Bronstein Defense
• Sämisch, Steiner Attack
• Sämisch, Sämisch Gambit
• Sämisch, Yates Defense
• Sämisch, Yates, Panno Formation
• Sämisch, Yates, Panno, Main Line
• Sämisch, Yates, Ruban Variation
• Traditional Line
• Traditional, Benko Attack
• Zinnowitz Variation

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