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ECO D98: Grünfeld Defense

ECO D98 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: Russian Variation, Smyslov Variation: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Qb3 dxc4 6. Qxc4 O-O 7. e4 Bg4.

That position has come up in 10,318 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 49.3%, 6.6% were drawn and Black won 44.2%.

OpeningMovesPlies
Grünfeld Defense: Russian Variation, Smyslov Variation 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Qb3 dxc4 6. Qxc4 O-O 7. e4 Bg4 14
Grünfeld Defense: Russian Variation, Keres Variation 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Qb3 dxc4 6. Qxc4 O-O 7. e4 Bg4 8. Be3 Nfd7 9. Be2 Nb6 10. Qd3 Nc6 11. O-O-O 21