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ECO C08: French Defense

ECO C08 is part of volume C — Open Games. The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 2 named lines under it. The shortest is French Defense: Tarrasch Variation, Open System: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. exd5 exd5.

That position has come up in 512,646 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 50.6%, 6.5% were drawn and Black won 42.9%.

OpeningMovesPlies
French Defense: Tarrasch Variation, Open System 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. exd5 exd5 8
French Defense: Tarrasch Variation, Open System, Advance Line 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. exd5 exd5 5. Ngf3 c4 10