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One of the major side defences to a Queen's Pawn, where Black immediately begins to fianchetto his King's Bishop (move 2b, left) in order to control the dark centre-diagonal QR1-KR8 (a1-g8) before attempting to attack White's pawn centre. |
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| In the strategic line White uses the same approach, awaiting the attack (move 7wb, right). The first four moves by each player are mostly interchangeable. | ||
| Being a fighting defence with a high degree of positional strategy required on both sides, White often opts for a more direct attacking variation by 3.Kt-QB3, leading to further lines such as the Classical Variation, the Four Pawns' Attack (below), the Grünfeld Defence (qv.) and the Averbakh Variation. | ||
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