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French Defense: Advance Variation

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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
Parent
French Defense: Advance Variation
Direct variations
2
Total in subtree
10

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Variations (2)

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Sister lines that share the same parent French Defense: Advance Variation:

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