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- French Defense C00
- Normal Variation C00
- French Defense C00
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French Defense: Exchange Variation
Overview
French Defense: Exchange Variation is a variation within the Open Games family, indexed as ECO C01.
The Open Games group covers open games — classical 1.e4 e5 openings where both sides contest the centre directly with pawns.
The line arises from 5 plies — specifically the moves 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5.
It is a variation of French Defense, which itself descends from the root opening French Defense.
It branches into 3 notable variations — French Defense: Exchange Variation, French Defense: Exchange Variation, Monte Carlo Variation.
Together the deeper variations number 4 across the full subtree.
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- ECO code
- C01
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 5
- Parent
- French Defense
- Direct variations
- 3
- Total in subtree
- 4
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