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French Defense: Normal Variation
Overview
French Defense: Normal Variation 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 3 plies and takes 1. e4 e6 2. d4 to reach the canonical position.
It is a direct variation of French Defense.
It is the root of 6 named variations, with French Defense, French Defense: Baeuerle Gambit, French Defense: Franco-Hiva Gambit, and others among the most studied.
Across every depth of the tree this branch holds 187 documented sub-variations, reflecting decades of analytical work.
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- ECO code
- C00
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 3
- Parent
- French Defense
- Direct variations
- 6
- Total in subtree
- 187
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