Tree path 6 levels King's Pawn Game › King's Knight Opening › Philidor Defense › Philidor Defense › Exchange Variation › Philidor Defense: Exchange Variation
- Chess Codex
- King's Pawn Game C20
- King's Knight Opening C40
- Philidor Defense C41
- Philidor Defense C41
- Exchange Variation C41
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Philidor Defense: Exchange Variation
Overview
Philidor Defense: Exchange Variation is a variation within the Open Games family, indexed as ECO C41.
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 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4, after 7 plies of opening development.
It is a variation of Philidor Defense: Exchange Variation, which itself descends from the root opening King's Pawn Game.
It branches into 3 notable variations — Philidor Defense: Exchange Variation, Philidor Defense: Larsen Variation, Philidor Defense: Paulsen Attack.
In total, the branch covers 4 sub-variations across all depths.
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- ECO code
- C41
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 7
- Direct variations
- 3
- Total in subtree
- 4
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