Tree path 4 levels Indian Defense: Anti-Nimzo-Indian › Queen's Indian Defense › Fianchetto Variation › Traditional Line
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- Indian Defense: Anti-Nimzo-Indian E10
- Queen's Indian Defense E12
- Fianchetto Variation E15
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Queen's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation, Traditional Line
Overview
Queen's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation, Traditional Line is a variation within the Indian Defenses family, indexed as ECO E15.
The Indian Defenses group covers Indian defences — hypermodern lines where Black challenges the centre with pieces rather than pawns.
Play reaches this position via 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Bb7, after 8 plies of opening development.
It is a variation of Queen's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation, which itself descends from the root opening Indian Defense: Anti-Nimzo-Indian.
It branches into 3 notable variations — Queen's Indian Defense: Capablanca Variation, Queen's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation, Sämisch Variation, Queen's Indian Defense: Traditional Variation.
In total, the branch covers 18 sub-variations across all depths.
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- ECO code
- E15
- Group
- Indian Defenses (E)
- Plies
- 8
- Direct variations
- 3
- Total in subtree
- 18
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Statistics from Lichess
755,727 games · White 50.7% / Draw 7.3% / Black 42.0%
| Moves | Games | W / D / B |
|---|---|---|
| Bg2 | 750,555 | |
| Nc3 | 2,641 | |
| a3 | 1,117 | |
| Nbd2 | 506 | |
| Bg5 | 217 | |
| b3 | 118 | |
| Bh3 | 118 | |
| Qc2 | 113 |
Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 01:57:01
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Variations (3)
Show all 18 sub-variations (full subtree)
- E16 Queen's Indian Defense: Capablanca Variation 10-ply
- E15 Queen's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation, Sämisch Variation 10-ply
- E17 Queen's Indian Defense: Traditional Variation 10-ply
- E11 Bogo-Indian Defense: Monticelli Trap 19-ply
- E17 Queen's Indian Defense: Anti-Queen's Indian System 11-ply
- E15 Queen's Indian Defense: Buerger Variation 13-ply
- E17 Queen's Indian Defense: Classical Variation 11-ply
- E15 Queen's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation, Rubinstein Variation 13-ply
- E16 Queen's Indian Defense: Riumin Variation 12-ply
- E17 Polugaevsky Gambit 15-ply
- E17 Taimanov Gambit 15-ply
- E18 Traditional Variation 13-ply
- E17 Queen's Indian Defense: Euwe Variation 13-ply
- E17 Queen's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation, Kramnik Variation 13-ply
- E17 Queen's Indian Defense: Opocensky Variation 13-ply
- E18 Queen's Indian Defense: Classical Variation, Tiviakov Defense 14-ply
- E19 Main Line 17-ply
- E18 Nimzowitsch Line 14-ply