About this opening
King's Indian Defense: Orthodox Variation, Positional Defense is an opening in the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings,
classified under code E94. ECO group E (E00–E99)
covers Indian defences against 1.d4, covering the Nimzo-Indian, Queen's Indian, King's Indian and Catalan systems. This particular variation is reached
after 14 half-moves from the
starting position, with the move sequence 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 d6 3. Nc3 Nbd7 4. e4 e5 5. Nf3 g6 6. Be2 Bg7 7. O-O O-O.
It belongs to the King's Indian Defense family.
Within that family this is a level-2 branch (the Orthodox Variation → Positional Defense line). The immediate parent line is King's Indian Defense: Orthodox Variation, transitioned via 7…O-O.
The opening sequence in prose form: 1.d4 Nf6, 2.c4 d6, 3.Nc3 Nbd7, 4.e4 e5, 5.Nf3 g6, 6.Be2 Bg7. From this position 2 named continuations are recorded in the encyclopaedia, each leading to a distinct theoretical line.
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. The list of recorded continuations sits directly below the board. 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 E94 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.