Grünfeld Defense: Brinckmann Attack, Grünfeld Gambit, Botvinnik Variation
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Bf4 Bg7 5. e3 O-O 6. Rc1 c5 7. dxc5 Be6
The Grünfeld Defense: Brinckmann Attack, Grünfeld Gambit, Botvinnik Variation is a chess opening classified as ECO D83, reached after 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Bf4 Bg7 5. e3 O-O 6. Rc1 c5 7. dxc5 Be6. It is a line of the Grünfeld Defense. 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: +0.17 (Stockfish, depth 43; best line 8. Nf3 Nc6 9. Be2 dxc4 10. Ng5 Qxd1+)
- ECO
- D83
- Moves
- 14 plies
- FEN
rn1q1rk1/pp2ppbp/4bnp1/2Pp4/2P2B2/2N1P3/PP3PPP/2RQKBNR w K - 1 8- PGN
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Bf4 Bg7 5. e3 O-O 6. Rc1 c5 7. dxc5 Be6
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Master games
82 over-the-board games are classified under this line (White 24%, draw 27%, Black 49%). The strongest:
- GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek (2736) – GM A.R. Saleh Salem (2628) 1-0 · 42nd Olympiad 2016 · 2016-09-03
- GM Ernesto Inarkiev (2689) – GM A.R. Saleh Salem (2638) 0-1 · World Blitz 2017 · 2017-12-29
- GM Varuzhan Akobian (2647) – GM Jeffery Xiong (2665) 1/2-1/2 · ch-USA 2018 · 2018-04-21
- GM Miralles, G. (2472) – GM Leinier Dominguez Perez (2753) 0-1 · 29th ECC Open 2013 · 2013-10-21
- GM S.P. Sethuraman (2613) – GM Abhijeet Gupta (2606) 1-0 · 18th Asian Continental · 2019-06-14
Comes from
Grünfeld Defense: Brinckmann Attack, Grünfeld Gambit, Capablanca Variation 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Bf4 Bg7 5. e3 O-O 6. Rc1
More Grünfeld Defense lines (all)
- Grünfeld Defense: Three Knights Variation, Burille Variation, Reversed Tarrasch A56
- Grünfeld Defense D80
- Grünfeld Defense: Gibbon Gambit D80
- Grünfeld Defense: Lundin Variation D80
- Grünfeld Defense: Lutikov Variation D80
- Grünfeld Defense: Lutikov Variation, Murrey Attack D80
- Grünfeld Defense: Stockholm Variation D80
- Grünfeld Defense: Zaitsev Gambit D80
- Grünfeld Defense: Russian Variation, Accelerated Variation D81
- Grünfeld Defense: Brinckmann Attack D82
- Grünfeld Defense: Brinckmann Attack, Grünfeld Gambit D83
- Grünfeld Defense: Brinckmann Attack, Reshevsky Gambit D83
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.