About this opening
Queen's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation, Check Variation is an opening in the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings,
classified under code E15. 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 10 half-moves from the
starting position, with the move sequence 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. b3 Bb4+.
It belongs to the Queen's Indian Defense family.
Within that family this is a level-2 branch (the Fianchetto Variation → Check Variation line). The immediate parent line is Queen's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation, transitioned via 5…Bb4+.
The opening sequence in prose form: 1.d4 Nf6, 2.c4 e6, 3.Nf3 b6, 4.g3 Ba6, 5.b3 Bb4+. From this position exactly one named continuation is recorded in the encyclopaedia.
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 E15 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.