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- French Defense C00
- Normal Variation C00
- French Defense C00
- Paulsen Variation C10
- French Defense: Winawer Variation C15
- Advance Variation C16
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French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation
Overview
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation is a named branch in the Open Games group of chess theory, classified under ECO C17.
The Open Games group covers open games — classical 1.e4 e5 openings where both sides contest the centre directly with pawns.
It begins with 8 plies and takes 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 to reach the canonical position.
In the opening tree, this line branches off from French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation, part of the broader French Defense system.
3 named variations grow from this line, including French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation, Moscow Variation, French Defense: Winawer Variation, Bogoljubow Variation.
Counted recursively, this branch covers 36 sub-variations at all depths.
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- ECO code
- C17
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 8
- Direct variations
- 3
- Total in subtree
- 36
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Variations (3)
Show all 36 sub-variations (full subtree)
- C17 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation 9-ply
- C17 Moscow Variation 9-ply
- C17 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Bogoljubow Variation 9-ply
- C18 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation 11-ply
- C17 Icelandic Defense 11-ply
- C17 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Maróczy-Wallis Variation 12-ply
- C17 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Retreat Variation 10-ply
- C17 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation 13-ply
- C18 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation 12-ply
- C18 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Classical Variation 12-ply
- C18 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Portisch-Hook Variation 12-ply
- C19 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Positional Variation 14-ply
- C19 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Positional Variation 16-ply
- C17 Armenian Line 12-ply
- C18 with Bd3 13-ply
- C18 with h4 13-ply
- C18 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Eingorn Variation 14-ply
- C18 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Poisoned Pawn Variation 15-ply
- C18 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Poisoned Pawn Variation 14-ply
- C19 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Positional Variation 15-ply
- C19 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Positional Variation 13-ply
- C18 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Warsaw Variation 14-ply
- C18 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation, with Bd3 14-ply
- C18 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation, with h4 14-ply
- C18 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Poisoned Pawn Variation 18-ply
- C18 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Poisoned Pawn Variation Declined 15-ply
- C18 Main Line 19-ply
- C18 Paoli Variation 19-ply
- C19 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Positional Variation 15-ply
- C19 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Positional Variation 17-ply
- C19 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Positional Variation 17-ply
- C19 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Positional Variation 14-ply
- C19 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Positional Variation 18-ply
- C19 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Positional Variation 18-ply
- C19 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Positional Variation 18-ply
- C19 French Defense: Winawer Variation, Positional Variation 15-ply