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ECO C16: French Defense

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.

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%.

OpeningMovesPlies
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 7
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Petrosian Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 Qd7 8