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ECO C18: French Defense: Winawer Variation

ECO C18 is part of volume C, Open Games. The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 16 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 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3. All of them are lines of the French Defense: Winawer Variation.

That position has come up in 1,051,361 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 48.0%, 5.3% were drawn and Black won 46.7%.

OpeningMovesGamesLength
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 1.1M 6 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 613K 6 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Classical Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Qc7 194K 6 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Portisch-Hook Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Qa5 147K 6 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation, with Bd3 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. Bd3 30K 7 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation, with h4 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. h4 50K 7 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation, with Bd3 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. Bd3 Qc7 6,582 7 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation, with h4 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. h4 Qc7 18K 7 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Eingorn Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. Qg4 Kf8 24K 7 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Poisoned Pawn Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. Qg4 Qc7 178K 7 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Warsaw Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. Qg4 O-O 70K 7 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Poisoned Pawn Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. Qg4 cxd4 8. Qxg7 20K 8 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Poisoned Pawn Variation Declined 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. Qg4 Qc7 8. Bd3 23K 8 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Poisoned Pawn Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. Qg4 cxd4 8. Qxg7 Rg8 9. Qxh7 Nbc6 18K 9 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Poisoned Pawn Variation, Main Line 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. Qg4 Qc7 8. Qxg7 Rg8 9. Qxh7 cxd4 10. Ne2 103K 10 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Poisoned Pawn Variation, Paoli Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. Qg4 Qc7 8. Qxg7 Rg8 9. Qxh7 cxd4 10. Kd1 6,722 10 moves