About this opening
Dutch Defense: Nimzo-Dutch Variation, Alekhine Variation is an opening in the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings,
classified under code A90. ECO group A (A00–A99)
covers flank and irregular openings, including the English, Bird, Réti and Dutch defences. This particular variation is reached
after 10 half-moves from the
starting position, with the move sequence 1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. g3 e6 4. Bg2 Bb4+ 5. Bd2 Be7.
It belongs to the Dutch Defense family.
Within that family this is a level-2 branch (the Nimzo-Dutch Variation → Alekhine Variation line). The immediate parent line is Dutch Defense: Nimzo-Dutch Variation, transitioned via 5…Be7.
The opening sequence in prose form: 1.d4 f5, 2.c4 Nf6, 3.g3 e6, 4.Bg2 Bb4+, 5.Bd2 Be7. From this position the encyclopaedia records no further canonical continuations — practical play branches into unnamed transpositions or returns to the parent line for alternative ideas.
Use the interactive board above to walk through the moves position-by-position. Click any move in the navigation to step backwards, or use the keyboard arrow keys. For statistical data — how often master-level players have reached this position, White's win-rate, draw frequency, Black's score — see the panel in the right column.
Caissly's coverage of A90 extends through every named sub-variation in this line and across all four locales (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian). Where editorial commentary exists for a specific variation it appears as the page body; otherwise the page presents the structural data, board, and statistics as shown here.