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ECO E04: Catalan Opening: Open Defense

ECO E04 is part of volume E, Indian Defenses. The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 3 named lines under it. The shortest is Catalan Opening: Open Defense: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Bg2 dxc4 5. Nf3. All of them are lines of the Catalan Opening: Open Defense.

That position has come up in 548,389 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 51.7%, 7.1% were drawn and Black won 41.3%.

OpeningMovesGamesLength
Catalan Opening: Open Defense 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Bg2 dxc4 5. Nf3 548K 5 moves
Catalan Opening: Open Defense 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. g3 c6 5. Bg2 dxc4 265K 5 moves
Catalan Opening: Open Defense, Modern Sharp Variation 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Bg2 dxc4 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. Qa4 Bb4+ 16K 6 moves