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French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Advance Variation
Overview
French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Advance Variation is a variation within the Open Games family, indexed as ECO C12.
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. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Bb4 5. e5, after 9 plies of opening development.
It is a variation of French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, which itself descends from the root opening French Defense.
It is the root of 6 named variations, with French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Bernstein Variation, French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Chigorin Variation, French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Dr. Olland Variation, and others among the most studied.
In total, the branch covers 8 sub-variations across all depths.
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- ECO code
- C12
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 9
- Direct variations
- 6
- Total in subtree
- 8
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Variations (6)
- C12 French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Bernstein Variation
- C12 French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Chigorin Variation
- C12 French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Dr. Olland Variation
- C12 French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Janowski Variation
- C12 French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Lasker Variation
- C12 French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Tartakower Variation
Show all 8 sub-variations (full subtree)
- C12 French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Bernstein Variation 11-ply
- C12 French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Chigorin Variation 11-ply
- C12 French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Dr. Olland Variation 11-ply
- C12 French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Janowski Variation 11-ply
- C12 French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Lasker Variation 12-ply
- C12 French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Tartakower Variation 12-ply
- C12 French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Grigoriev Variation 17-ply
- C12 French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Lasker Variation 16-ply