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ECO C13: French Defense

ECO C13 is part of volume C, Open Games. The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 13 named lines under it. The shortest is French Defense: Classical Variation, Normal Variation: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7.

That position has come up in 1,999,249 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 51.1%, 5.0% were drawn and Black won 44.0%.

OpeningMovesGamesLength
French Defense: Classical Variation, Normal Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 2M 4 moves
French Defense: Classical Variation, Richter Attack 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. Bxf6 250K 5 moves
French Defense: Classical Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 dxe4 5. Nxe4 Be7 1.3M 5 moves
French Defense: Classical Variation, Tartakower Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Ne4 94K 5 moves
French Defense: Classical Variation, Vistaneckis Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Ng8 34K 5 moves
French Defense: Alekhine-Chatard Attack 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. h4 601K 6 moves
French Defense: Alekhine-Chatard Attack, Breyer Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. h4 c5 87K 6 moves
French Defense: Alekhine-Chatard Attack, Maróczy Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. h4 a6 129K 6 moves
French Defense: Alekhine-Chatard Attack, Spielmann Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. h4 O-O 30K 6 moves
French Defense: Alekhine-Chatard Attack, Teichmann Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. h4 f6 7,217 6 moves
French Defense: Classical Variation, Frankfurt Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Ng8 6. Be3 b6 535 6 moves
French Defense: Classical Variation, Richter Attack 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. Bxf6 Bxf6 6. e5 Be7 7. Qg4 36K 7 moves
French Defense: Alekhine-Chatard Attack, Albin-Chatard Gambit 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. h4 Bxg5 7. hxg5 Qxg5 160K 7 moves