About this opening
Rapport-Jobava System is an opening in the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings,
classified under code D01. ECO group D (D00–D99)
covers closed games and semi-closed games beginning 1.d4 d5, covering the Queen's Gambit, Slav, Grünfeld and related queen-pawn structures. This particular variation is reached
after 5 half-moves from the
starting position, with the move sequence 1. d4 d5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bf4.
The opening sequence in prose form: 1.d4 d5, 2.Nc3 Nf6, 3.Bf4. From this position the encyclopaedia records no further canonical continuations — practical play branches into unnamed transpositions or returns to the parent line for alternative ideas.