📖 Opening Principles

🔄 Transpositions

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Different Roads, Same Destination

A transposition is when different move orders reach the same position. For example: 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 = Queen's Gambit Declined. But so does 1.c4 e6 2.d4 d5! Same position, different move order. This happens constantly in chess.

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Lesson: 🔄 Transpositions