Catalan Opening: Closed (6. O-O c6)
1. c4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. g3 Nf6 4. Bg2 Be7 5. d4 O-O 6. O-O c6
The Catalan Opening: Closed is a chess opening classified as ECO E06, reached after 1. c4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. g3 Nf6 4. Bg2 Be7 5. d4 O-O 6. O-O c6. It is a line of the Catalan Opening. White is to move.
This exact move order didn't appear in our sample of 12.6 million Lichess games: it's a rare line.
Engine evaluation: +0.21 (Stockfish, depth 52; best line 7. b3 b6 8. Bb2 Nbd7 9. Re1 Ba6)
- ECO
- E06
- Moves
- 12 plies
- FEN
rnbq1rk1/pp2bppp/2p1pn2/3p4/2PP4/5NP1/PP2PPBP/RNBQ1RK1 w - - 0 7- PGN
1. c4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. g3 Nf6 4. Bg2 Be7 5. d4 O-O 6. O-O c6
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Master games
8 over-the-board games are classified under this line (White 50%, draw 37%, Black 13%). The strongest:
- GM Daniel Fridman (2585) – GM Andrey Sumets (2523) 1/2-1/2 · 22nd Vandoeuvre Open 2025 · 2025-12-29
- GM Lalith, B. (2563) – GM Duc Hoa Nguyen (2398) 1/2-1/2 · 1st Maharashtra GM Open · 2022-06-01
- GM Monika Socko (2436) – WGM Jolanta Zawadzka (2407) 1-0 · TCh-POL Ekstraliga 2019 · 2019-09-03
- IM Christian Jepson (2386) – IM Hampus Sorensen (2430) 1/2-1/2 · Elite Hotels Vaxjo Open · 2024-02-11
- IM Rudolf Sertic (2381) – FM Sven Tica (2333) 1-0 · 25th TCh-CRO Div 1b 2016 · 2016-10-09
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Comes from
English Opening: Neo-Catalan Declined 1. c4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. g3 Nf6 4. Bg2 Be7
More Catalan Opening lines (all)
- Catalan Opening (2… e6 3. g3) E00
- Catalan Opening (3. g3 d5) E00
- Catalan Opening: Hungarian Gambit E00
- Catalan Opening: Open Defense (3… d5 4. Bg2) E01
- Catalan Opening: Tarrasch Defense E01
- Catalan Opening: Open Defense (4. Bg2 dxc4) E02
- Catalan Opening: Open Defense (5… Nbd7 6. Qxc4) E03
- Catalan Opening: Open Defense, Alekhine Variation E03
- Catalan Opening: Open Defense (4… dxc4 5. Nf3) E04
- Catalan Opening: Open Defense (5. Bg2 dxc4) E04
- Catalan Opening: Open Defense, Modern Sharp Variation E04
- Catalan Opening: Open Defense, Classical Line (5. Nf3 Be7) E05
Opening names and moves from the Lichess openings dataset; statistics from the Lichess open database, 2026-09 (CC0), sample of 12.6 million games, bots excluded; evaluations from Lichess cloud analysis (all CC0). Master games from The Week in Chess #920–#1664 by Mark Crowther, used with permission.