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ECO E87: King's Indian Defense

ECO E87 is part of volume E — Indian Defenses. The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 3 named lines under it. The shortest is King's Indian Defense: Sämisch Variation, Closed Variation: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f3 O-O 6. Be3 e5 7. d5.

That position has come up in 321,441 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 50.8%, 5.2% were drawn and Black won 44.0%.

OpeningMovesPlies
King's Indian Defense: Sämisch Variation, Closed Variation 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f3 O-O 6. Be3 e5 7. d5 13
King's Indian Defense: Sämisch Variation, Bronstein Defense 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f3 O-O 6. Be3 e5 7. d5 Nh5 8. Qd2 Qh4+ 9. g3 Nxg3 10. Qf2 Nxf1 11. Qxh4 Nxe3 12. Ke2 23
King's Indian Defense: Sämisch Variation, Orthodox Variation, Bronstein Variation 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f3 O-O 6. Be3 e5 7. d5 Nh5 8. Qd2 Qh4+ 9. g3 Nxg3 10. Qf2 Nxf1 11. Qxh4 Nxe3 12. Ke2 Nxc4 24