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ECO A36: English Opening: Symmetrical Variation

ECO A36 is part of volume A, Flank Openings. The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 4 named lines under it. The shortest is English Opening: Symmetrical Variation, Two Knights, Fianchetto Variation: 1. c4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g3. All of them are lines of the English Opening: Symmetrical Variation.

That position has come up in 1,794,248 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 51.0%, 5.9% were drawn and Black won 43.0%.

OpeningMovesGamesLength
English Opening: Symmetrical Variation, Two Knights, Fianchetto Variation 1. c4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g3 1.8M 3 moves
English Opening: Symmetrical Variation, Ultra-Symmetrical Variation 1. c4 c5 2. g3 g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. Nc3 Nc6 1.3M 4 moves
English Opening: Symmetrical Variation, Botvinnik System 1. c4 c5 2. e4 Nc6 3. Nc3 g6 4. g3 Bg7 5. Bg2 418K 5 moves
English Opening: Symmetrical Variation, Botvinnik System Reversed, with e3 1. c4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. e3 e5 68K 5 moves