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- Chess Codex
- French Defense C00
- Normal Variation C00
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French Defense: Franco-Sicilian Defense
Overview
French Defense: Franco-Sicilian Defense is a variation within the Open Games family, indexed as ECO C00.
The Open Games group covers open games — classical 1.e4 e5 openings where both sides contest the centre directly with pawns.
It begins with 4 plies and takes 1. e4 e6 2. d4 c5 to reach the canonical position.
It is a variation of French Defense: Normal Variation, which itself descends from the root opening French Defense.
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- ECO code
- C00
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 4
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