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ECO C16: French Defense: Winawer Variation

ECO C16 is part of volume C, Open Games. The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 2 named lines under it. The shortest is French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5. All of them are lines of the French Defense: Winawer Variation.

That position has come up in 2,756,962 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 49.1%, 5.1% were drawn and Black won 45.7%.

OpeningMovesGamesLength
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 2.8M 4 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Petrosian Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 Qd7 78K 4 moves