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French Defense: Advance Variation
Overview
French Defense: Advance Variation is a variation within the Open Games family, indexed as ECO C02.
The Open Games group covers open games — classical 1.e4 e5 openings where both sides contest the centre directly with pawns.
Play reaches this position via 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6, after 8 plies of opening development.
It is a variation of French Defense: Advance Variation, which itself descends from the root opening French Defense.
It branches into 2 notable variations — Kupreichik Variation, Paulsen Attack.
In total, the branch covers 10 sub-variations across all depths.
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- ECO code
- C02
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 8
- Direct variations
- 2
- Total in subtree
- 10
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Statistics from Lichess
12,342,906 games · White 45.7% / Draw 4.6% / Black 49.6%
| Moves | Games | W / D / B |
|---|---|---|
| Nf3 | 8,927,307 | |
| Bb5 | 1,356,541 | |
| f4 | 696,533 | |
| Be3 | 659,192 | |
| a3 | 329,752 | |
| Bd3 | 109,466 | |
| Ne2 | 68,081 | |
| b3 | 32,602 |
Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 01:48:55
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Variations (2)
Show all 10 sub-variations (full subtree)
- C02 Kupreichik Variation 9-ply
- C02 Paulsen Attack 9-ply
- C02 French Defense: Advance Variation, Euwe Variation 10-ply
- C02 French Defense: Advance Variation, Main Line 11-ply
- C02 French Defense: Advance Variation, Milner-Barry Gambit 11-ply
- C02 French Defense: Advance Variation, Lputian Variation 12-ply
- C02 Hector Variation 13-ply
- C02 Main Line 15-ply
- C02 French Defense: Advance Variation, Milner-Barry Gambit, Hector Variation 15-ply
- C02 French Defense: Advance Variation, Milner-Barry Gambit, Sørensen Variation 17-ply