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ECO D87: Grünfeld Defense

ECO D87 is part of volume D — Closed & Semi-Closed Games. The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 2 named lines under it. The shortest is Grünfeld Defense: Exchange Variation, Spassky Variation: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 Bg7 7. Bc4 c5 8. Ne2 O-O.

That position has come up in 323,577 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 47.6%, 7.3% were drawn and Black won 45.1%.

OpeningMovesPlies
Grünfeld Defense: Exchange Variation, Spassky Variation 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 Bg7 7. Bc4 c5 8. Ne2 O-O 16
Grünfeld Defense: Exchange Variation, Seville Variation 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 Bg7 7. Bc4 c5 8. Ne2 Nc6 9. Be3 O-O 10. O-O Bg4 11. f3 Na5 12. Bxf7+ 23