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ECO C49: Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation

ECO C49 is part of volume C, Open Games. The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 15 named lines under it. The shortest is Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation, Double Spanish: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bb4. All of them are lines of the Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation.

That position has come up in 868,032 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 48.5%, 6.0% were drawn and Black won 45.4%.

OpeningMovesGamesLength
Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation, Double Spanish 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bb4 868K 4 moves
Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation, Double Spanish 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. d3 107K 6 moves
Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation, Nimzowitsch Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. Bxc6 31K 6 moves
Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. d3 Bxc3 25K 6 moves
Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation, Symmetrical Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. d3 d6 81K 6 moves
Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation, Symmetrical Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. d3 d6 7. Ne2 7,519 7 moves
Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation, Alatortsev Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. d3 Qe7 7. Ne2 d5 5 7 moves
Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation, Gunsberg Counterattack 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. Nd5 Nxd5 7. exd5 e4 669 7 moves
Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation, Svenonius Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. d3 Bxc3 7. bxc3 d5 1,964 7 moves
Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation, Symmetrical Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. d3 d6 7. Bg5 Ne7 3,724 7 moves
Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation, Symmetrical Variation, Tarrasch Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. d3 d6 7. Bg5 Be6 1,319 7 moves
Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation, Janowski Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. d3 Bxc3 7. bxc3 d6 8. Re1 4,389 8 moves
Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation, Symmetrical Variation, Metger Unpin 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. d3 d6 7. Bg5 Bxc3 8. bxc3 Qe7 14K 8 moves
Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation, Symmetrical Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. d3 d6 7. Bg5 Bxc3 8. bxc3 Qe7 9. Re1 Nd8 10. d4 Bg4 449 10 moves
Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation, Symmetrical Variation, Blake Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. d3 d6 7. Bg5 Ne7 8. Nh4 c6 9. Bc4 d5 10. Bb3 Qd6 20 10 moves