Grunfeld Defense: Three Knights Variation, Burille Variation, Reversed Tarrasch
In the Grunfeld Defense: Three Knights Variation, Burille Variation, Reversed Tarrasch, aim to understand the plans and pawn structures, not just memorize the first moves.
The Grunfeld Defense: Three Knights Variation, Burille Variation, Reversed Tarrasch is a chess opening classified under ECO code A56. It is reached after the moves 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. e3 g6 4. Nc3 Bg7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 cxd4 7. exd4 d5 8. O-O Nc6: 16 moves in, with White to play.
It belongs to the Grunfeld Defense family — one of many ways the line can branch. Understanding the parent system’s plans is the fastest way to play this variation well.
Club players rarely lose the Grunfeld Defense: Three Knights Variation, Burille Variation, Reversed Tarrasch in the opening itself. They lose it a few moves later, when the plan behind the moves runs out: that is what reading your own games in this line shows you.