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ECO C17: French Defense

ECO C17 is part of volume C — Open Games. The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 9 named lines under it. The shortest is French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5.

That position has come up in 2,002,189 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 48.6%, 5.1% were drawn and Black won 46.3%.

OpeningMovesPlies
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 8
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 9
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation, Moscow Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. Qg4 9
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Bogoljubow Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. Bd2 9
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Retreat Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Ba5 10
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Bogoljubow Variation, Icelandic Defense 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. Bd2 Ne7 6. f4 11
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Maróczy-Wallis Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 cxd4 6. axb4 dxc3 12
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Retreat Variation, Armenian Line 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Ba5 6. b4 cxd4 12
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 cxd4 6. axb4 dxc3 7. Nf3 13