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ECO C12: French Defense: McCutcheon Variation

ECO C12 is part of volume C, Open Games. The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 13 named lines under it. The shortest is French Defense: McCutcheon Variation: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Bb4. All of them are lines of the French Defense: McCutcheon Variation.

That position has come up in 506,877 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 46.7%, 6.1% were drawn and Black won 47.2%.

OpeningMovesGamesLength
French Defense: McCutcheon Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Bb4 507K 4 moves
French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Advance Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Bb4 5. e5 424K 5 moves
French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Exchange Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Bb4 5. exd5 31K 5 moves
French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Bernstein Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Bb4 5. e5 h6 6. Bh4 37K 6 moves
French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Chigorin Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Bb4 5. e5 h6 6. exf6 132K 6 moves
French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Dr. Olland Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Bb4 5. e5 h6 6. Bc1 18K 6 moves
French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Janowski Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Bb4 5. e5 h6 6. Be3 30K 6 moves
French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Lasker Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Bb4 5. e5 h6 6. Bd2 Bxc3 151K 6 moves
French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Tartakower Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Bb4 5. e5 h6 6. Bd2 Nfd7 20K 6 moves
French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Bogoljubow Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Bb4 5. exd5 Qxd5 6. Bxf6 gxf6 7. Qd2 Qa5 423 7 moves
French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Lasker Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Bb4 5. e5 h6 6. Bd2 Bxc3 7. bxc3 Ne4 8. Qg4 g6 23K 8 moves
French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Duras Variation 1. e4 e6 2. Nc3 d5 3. d4 Nf6 4. Bg5 Bb4 5. e5 h6 6. Bd2 Bxc3 7. bxc3 Ne4 8. Qg4 Kf8 9. Bc1 1,510 9 moves
French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Grigoriev Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Bb4 5. e5 h6 6. exf6 hxg5 7. fxg7 Rg8 8. h4 gxh4 9. Qg4 5,544 9 moves