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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.
It begins with 5 plies and takes 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 to reach the canonical position.
It is a variation of French Defense, which itself descends from the root opening French Defense.
It branches into 2 notable variations — French Defense: Advance Variation, Extended Bishop Swap.
Together the deeper variations number 21 across the full subtree.
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- ECO code
- C02
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 5
- Parent
- French Defense
- Direct variations
- 2
- Total in subtree
- 21
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Variations (2)
Show all 21 sub-variations (full subtree)
- C02 French Defense: Advance Variation 6-ply
- C02 Extended Bishop Swap 6-ply
- C02 French Defense: Advance Variation 7-ply
- C02 Frenkel Gambit 7-ply
- C02 Nimzowitsch Attack 7-ply
- C02 Nimzowitsch System 7-ply
- C02 Steinitz Variation 7-ply
- C02 French Defense: Advance Variation 8-ply
- C02 French Defense: Advance Variation, Nimzowitsch Gambit 9-ply
- C02 French Defense: Advance Variation, Ruisdonk Gambit 9-ply
- C02 Wade Variation 10-ply
- 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