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French Defense: Normal Variation trainer

Type a move and press Enter: e4, Nf3, O-O, or from and to squares like g1f3 (e7e8q to promote). The board is also played with the mouse.

Practise the French Defense: Normal Variation

Play White's moves of the line from memory — 1. e4 e6 2. d4 — and the trainer plays Black's replies; "Play the other side" turns it around.

"Drill all" adds the 188 named lines that continue it, such as French Defense, French Defense: Advance Variation, French Defense: Exchange Variation, French Defense: Paulsen Variation, French Defense: Advance Variation, Paulsen Attack, French Defense: Tarrasch Variation, French Defense: Classical Variation, French Defense: Franco-Sicilian Defense.

Read about the line, its statistics on Lichess and Stockfish's evaluation on the French Defense: Normal Variation page, or pick another opening in the opening trainer.