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ECO C14: French Defense: Classical Variation

ECO C14 is part of volume C, Open Games. The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 8 named lines under it. The shortest is French Defense: Classical Variation: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 a6 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. e5 Nfd7 6. Bg5. All of them are lines of the French Defense: Classical Variation. The most played is French Defense: Classical Variation, reached in 773,020 rated Lichess games.

That position has come up in 19,097 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 44.8%, 4.7% were drawn and Black won 50.4%.

OpeningMovesGamesLength
French Defense: Classical Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 a6 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. e5 Nfd7 6. Bg5 19K 6 moves
French Defense: Classical Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. Bxe7 Qxe7 773K 6 moves
French Defense: Classical Variation, Alapin Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. Bxe7 Qxe7 7. Nb5 49K 7 moves
French Defense: Classical Variation, Pollock Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. Bxe7 Qxe7 7. Qg4 85K 7 moves
French Defense: Classical Variation, Rubinstein Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. Bxe7 Qxe7 7. Qd2 22K 7 moves
French Defense: Classical Variation, Steinitz Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. Bxe7 Qxe7 7. f4 414K 7 moves
French Defense: Classical Variation, Tarrasch Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. Bxe7 Qxe7 7. Bd3 34K 7 moves
French Defense: Classical Variation, Stahlberg Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. Bxe7 Qxe7 7. f4 O-O 8. Nf3 c5 9. Qd2 Nc6 10. O-O-O c4 643 10 moves