E08 is the opening Catalan Opening: Closed of the volume E · Indian defences: 13 half-moves to the position in the diagram, 7 variations in the ECO table.
What the games say
1,315 games in the collections, from 1927 to 2022. Mean rating of the games with ratings: 2440.
White wins 47 %, draws 40 %, Black wins 13 %
Most games: Wojtkiewicz, Aleksander (26), Sosonko, Gennadi (20), Smejkal, Jan (19), Cvitan, Ognjen (15), Bischoff, Klaus (14)
All 7 variations
- Catalan Opening: Closed 1.d4 ♘f6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.♗g2 ♗e7 5.♘f3 O-O 6.O-O ♘bd7 7.♕c2
- Catalan Opening: Closed 1.d4 ♘f6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.♗g2 ♗e7 5.♘f3 O-O 6.O-O ♘bd7 7.♕c2 c6 8.b3
- Catalan Opening: Closed 1.d4 ♘f6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.♗g2 ♗e7 5.♘f3 O-O 6.O-O ♘bd7 7.♕c2 c6 8.b3 b6
- Catalan Opening: Closed 1.d4 ♘f6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.♗g2 ♗e7 5.♘f3 O-O 6.O-O c6 7.♕c2 b6 8.♖d1 ♘bd7 9.♗f4
- Catalan Opening: Closed 1.d4 ♘f6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.♗g2 ♗e7 5.♘f3 O-O 6.O-O ♘bd7 7.♕c2 c6 8.♗f4 b6 9.♘bd2 ♗b7 10.e4
- Catalan Opening: Closed, Spassky Gambit 1.d4 ♘f6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 ♗e7 4.♗g2 d5 5.♘f3 O-O 6.O-O ♘bd7 7.♕c2 c6 8.b3 b6 9.♖d1 ♗b7 10.♘c3 b5
- Catalan Opening: Closed, Zagoryansky Variation 1.d4 e6 2.c4 ♘f6 3.♘f3 d5 4.g3 ♗e7 5.♗g2 O-O 6.O-O ♘bd7 7.♕c2 c6 8.♖d1 b6 9.a4