ECO A29: English Opening

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.

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%.

Opening	Moves	Plies
English Opening: King's English Variation, Four Knights Variation, Fianchetto Line	`1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. g3`	7
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`	10
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`	11
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`	11
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`	12
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`	12
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`	12
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`	12
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`	12
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`	13
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`	14
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`	14