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ECO B48: Sicilian Defense

ECO B48 is part of volume B — Semi-Open Games. The Lichess chess-openings dataset files one named line under it. It is Sicilian Defense: Taimanov Variation, Bastrikov Variation, English Attack: 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Be3.

That position has come up in 542,114 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 44.7%, 5.5% were drawn and Black won 49.8%.