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ECO A28: English Opening

ECO A28 is part of volume A — Flank Openings. The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 9 named lines under it. The shortest is English Opening: King's English Variation, Four Knights Variation: 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6.

That position has come up in 1,840,475 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 52.0%, 5.8% were drawn and Black won 42.2%.

OpeningMovesPlies
English Opening: King's English Variation, Four Knights Variation 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 6
English Opening: Four Knights System, Nimzowitsch Variation 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. e4 7
English Opening: King's English Variation, Four Knights Variation, Flexible Line 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. d3 7
English Opening: King's English Variation, Four Knights Variation, Korchnoi Line 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. a3 7
English Opening: King's English Variation, Four Knights Variation, Quiet Line 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. e3 7
English Opening: King's English Variation, Four Knights Variation, Bradley Beach Variation 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. d4 e4 8
English Opening: King's English Variation, Four Knights Variation, Quiet Line 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. e3 Bb4 5. Qc2 Bxc3 10
English Opening: King's English Variation, Four Knights Variation, Quiet Line 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. e3 Bb4 5. Qc2 O-O 6. Nd5 Re8 7. Qf5 13
English Opening: King's English Variation, Four Knights Variation 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Bb4 6. Bg5 h6 7. Bh4 Bxc3+ 8. bxc3 Ne5 16