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ECO A33: English Opening: Symmetrical Variation

ECO A33 is part of volume A, Flank Openings. The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 2 named lines under it. The shortest is English Opening: Symmetrical Variation, Anti-Benoni Variation, Spielmann Defense: 1. c4 e6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 c5 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Nc6. All of them are lines of the English Opening: Symmetrical Variation.

That position has come up in 334,683 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 48.0%, 6.6% were drawn and Black won 45.4%.

OpeningMovesGamesLength
English Opening: Symmetrical Variation, Anti-Benoni Variation, Spielmann Defense 1. c4 e6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 c5 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Nc6 335K 5 moves
English Opening: Symmetrical Variation, Anti-Benoni Variation, Geller Variation 1. c4 e6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 c5 4. d4 Nc6 5. g3 cxd4 6. Nxd4 Qb6 12K 6 moves