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Walk any move order through the catalog: pick a book continuation and watch the board, or open the matching ECO lines on the side. By default move orders are strict — flip the toggle to group by position and pull in transpositions.

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⚖ Grouping by position Grouping by position: lines that reach this position by a different move order are included too.
1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Nc3 c5 4. d5 ◀ Undo move

♞ You have reached Pterodactyl Defense: Eastern, Benoni B06 — the catalogued line ends exactly here.

Book continuations win% from 1.5M rated games

Matching openings 3

…and 1 more lines run through this position — keep making moves to narrow it down.

3810 catalogued lines in total · openings encyclopedia