Semi-Slav Defense
Semi-Slav Defense (D43) starts 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6. In 14,235 games between strong players, White wins 44%, 23% are drawn and Black wins 33%; the most played move is 5.Bg5 (49%).
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6
- ECO
- D43
- Games between strong players
- 14,235
- To move
- White
White wins, draws and Black wins, from this position.
What strong players play next
The moves played most from this position in over-the-board broadcasts and the Lichess Elite Database, how often, and how the games ended.
| Move | Played | Results | Leads to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.Bg5 | 49% (6,995) | – | |
| 5.e3 | 34% (4,853) | Semi-Slav Defense: Main Line | |
| 5.g3 | 7% (989) | – | |
| 5.cxd5 | 5% (765) | – | |
| 5.Qd3 | 1% (173) | – | |
| 5.Bf4 | 1% (158) | – |
Where it comes from and where it goes
Branches from Slav Defense: Three Knights Variation 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3
- Semi-Slav Defense: Anti-Moscow Gambit 1,515 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Moscow Variation 1,358 games
- Semi-Slav Defense Accepted 1,199 games
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Cambridge Springs Defense 1,147 games
Every Semi-Slav Defense line
- Semi-Slav Defense: Main Line 7,599 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Normal Variation 6,391 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Accelerated Move Order 4,748 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Stoltz Variation 3,174 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Marshall Gambit 1,645 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Semi-Meran Variation 1,629 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Meran Variation 1,601 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Anti-Moscow Gambit 1,515 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Moscow Variation 1,358 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Chigorin Defense 1,337 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Noteboom Variation 1,091 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Botvinnik Variation 1,017 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Marshall Gambit, Main Line 987 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Quiet Variation 748 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Meran Variation, Wade Variation 662 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Accelerated Meran Variation 604 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Botvinnik Variation, Lilienthal Variation 420 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Anti-Noteboom, Stonewall Variation 351 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Stoltz Variation, Shabalov Attack 303 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Marshall Gambit, Forgotten Variation 270 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Hastings Variation 213 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Meran Variation, Wade Variation, Larsen Variation 148 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Noteboom Variation, Anti-Noteboom Gambit 127 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Meran Variation, Lundin Variation 124 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Meran Variation, Reynolds' Variation 86 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Bogoljubow Variation 79 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Botvinnik Variation, Ekstrom Variation 73 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Meran Variation, Old Variation 67 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Anti-Noteboom, Stonewall Variation, Portisch Gambit 53 games
- Semi-Slav Defense: Meran Variation, Blumenfeld Variation 51 games
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