E18 is the opening Queen's Indian Defense: Classical Variation, Tiviakov Defense of the volume E · Indian defences: 14 half-moves to the position in the diagram, 3 variations in the ECO table.
What the games say
3,461 games in the collections, from 1920 to 2022. Mean rating of the games with ratings: 2461.
White wins 30 %, draws 57 %, Black wins 13 %
Most games: Farago, Ivan (73), Naumkin, Igor (57), Ribli, Zoltan (53), Karpov, Anatoly (50), Lengyel, Levente (39)
All 3 variations
- Queen's Indian Defense: Classical Variation, Tiviakov Defense 1.d4 ♘f6 2.c4 e6 3.♘f3 b6 4.g3 ♗b7 5.♗g2 ♗e7 6.O-O O-O 7.♘c3 ♘a6
- Queen's Indian Defense: Classical Variation, Traditional Variation 1.d4 ♘f6 2.c4 e6 3.♘f3 b6 4.g3 ♗b7 5.♗g2 ♗e7 6.O-O O-O 7.♘c3
- Queen's Indian Defense: Classical Variation, Traditional Variation, Nimzowitsch Line 1.d4 ♘f6 2.c4 e6 3.♘f3 b6 4.g3 ♗b7 5.♗g2 ♗e7 6.O-O O-O 7.♘c3 d5