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ECO A29: English Opening: King's English Variation

ECO A29 is part of volume A, Flank Openings. The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 12 named lines under it. The shortest is English Opening: King's English Variation, Four Knights Variation, Fianchetto Line: 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. g3. All of them are lines of the English Opening: King's English Variation.

That position has come up in 661,606 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 52.2%, 5.7% were drawn and Black won 42.1%.

OpeningMovesGamesLength
English Opening: King's English Variation, Four Knights Variation, Fianchetto Line 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. g3 662K 4 moves
English Opening: King's English Variation, Four Knights Variation, Fianchetto Line 1. c4 e5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Nf3 Nc6 101K 5 moves
English Opening: King's English Variation, Four Knights Variation, Fianchetto Line 1. c4 e5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. d3 33K 6 moves
English Opening: King's English Variation, Four Knights Variation, Fianchetto Line, with .. d6 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. g3 Bc5 5. d3 d6 6. Bg2 116K 6 moves
English Opening: King's English Variation, Four Knights Variation, Fianchetto Line, with .. d6, a6 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. g3 Bc5 5. d3 d6 6. Bg2 a6 28K 6 moves
English Opening: King's English Variation, Four Knights Variation, Fianchetto Line, with .. d6, Be7 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 Nc6 4. Bg2 d6 5. d3 Be7 6. Nf3 O-O 71K 6 moves
English Opening: King's English Variation, Four Knights Variation, Fianchetto Line, with .. d6, h6 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. g3 Bc5 5. d3 d6 6. Bg2 h6 30K 6 moves
English Opening: King's English Variation, Four Knights Variation, Fianchetto Line, with Bc5 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. g3 d5 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. Bg2 Bc5 19K 6 moves
English Opening: King's English Variation, Four Knights Variation, Fianchetto Line, with Nb6 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. g3 d5 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. Bg2 Nb6 180K 6 moves
English Opening: King's English Variation, Four Knights Variation, Fianchetto Line, with .. d6 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. g3 Bc5 5. d3 d6 6. Bg2 O-O 7. O-O 102K 7 moves
English Opening: King's English Variation, Four Knights Variation, Fianchetto Line 1. c4 e5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. d3 Be7 7. O-O O-O 11K 7 moves
English Opening: King's English Variation, Four Knights Variation, Fianchetto Line, Delayed .. Nc6 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 Bb4 4. Bg2 O-O 5. Nf3 Re8 6. O-O e4 7. Nd4 Nc6 1,147 7 moves