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ECO C19: French Defense: Winawer Variation

ECO C19 is part of volume C, Open Games. The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 14 named lines under it. The shortest is French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation, Smyslov Variation: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 Ne7 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 c5 7. a4. All of them are lines of the French Defense: Winawer Variation. The most played is French Defense: Winawer Variation, Positional Variation, reached in 129,402 rated Lichess games.

That position has come up in 37,586 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 50.4%, 5.9% were drawn and Black won 43.7%.

OpeningMovesGamesLength
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation, Smyslov Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 Ne7 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 c5 7. a4 38K 7 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Positional Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. Nf3 129K 7 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation, Smyslov Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 Ne7 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 c5 7. a4 Qc7 7,302 7 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Positional Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Nc6 7. Nf3 Nge7 63K 7 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Positional Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. Nf3 Qc7 45K 7 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Positional Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. a4 Nbc6 8. Nf3 20K 8 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Positional Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. Nf3 Qc7 8. h4 6,060 8 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Positional Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. Bd3 Nbc6 8. Nf3 28K 8 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Positional Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Nc6 7. Nf3 Qa5 8. Bd2 Nge7 7,465 8 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Positional Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. a4 Nbc6 8. Nf3 Qa5 9. Qd2 7,648 9 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Positional Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. a4 Nbc6 8. Nf3 Qa5 9. Bd2 11K 9 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Positional Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. a4 Nbc6 8. Nf3 Qa5 9. Qd2 Bd7 3,712 9 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Positional Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. a4 Nbc6 8. Nf3 Qa5 9. Bd2 Bd7 7,394 9 moves
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Positional Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. a4 Nbc6 8. Nf3 Qa5 9. Bd2 c4 3,160 9 moves