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ECO E07: Catalan Opening: Closed

ECO E07 is part of volume E, Indian Defenses. The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 2 named lines under it. The shortest is Catalan Opening: Closed: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Bg2 Be7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. O-O Nbd7. All of them are lines of the Catalan Opening: Closed.

That position has come up in 199,581 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 51.7%, 7.1% were drawn and Black won 41.2%.

OpeningMovesGamesLength
Catalan Opening: Closed 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Bg2 Be7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. O-O Nbd7 200K 6 moves
Catalan Opening: Closed, Botvinnik Variation 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Bg2 Be7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. O-O Nbd7 7. Nc3 c6 8. Qd3 44K 8 moves