Tree path 6 levels King's Pawn Game › Sicilian Defense › Sicilian Defense › French Variation › Open › Sicilian Defense: French Variation, Normal
- Chess Codex
- King's Pawn Game B00
- Sicilian Defense B20
- Sicilian Defense B27
- French Variation B40
- Open B40
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Sicilian Defense: French Variation, Normal
Overview
Sicilian Defense: French Variation, Normal is a variation within the Semi-Open Games family, indexed as ECO B40.
The Semi-Open Games group covers semi-open games — replies to 1.e4 where Black declines the symmetrical 1…e5 in favour of an asymmetric pawn structure.
The line arises from 8 plies — specifically the moves 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6.
It is a variation of Sicilian Defense: French Variation, Open, which itself descends from the root opening King's Pawn Game.
It branches into 3 notable variations — Sicilian Defense: Gaw-Paw Variation, Sicilian Defense: Pin Variation, Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen Variation.
Together the deeper variations number 14 across the full subtree.
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- ECO code
- B40
- Group
- Semi-Open Games (B)
- Plies
- 8
- Direct variations
- 3
- Total in subtree
- 14
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Variations (3)
Show all 14 sub-variations (full subtree)
- B40 Sicilian Defense: Gaw-Paw Variation 10-ply
- B40 Sicilian Defense: Pin Variation 10-ply
- B80 Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen Variation 10-ply
- B40 Jaffe Variation 12-ply
- B40 Koch Variation 11-ply
- B83 Classical Variation 11-ply
- B80 Fianchetto Variation 11-ply
- B81 Keres Attack 11-ply
- B82 Matanovic Attack 11-ply
- B80 Vitolins Variation 11-ply
- B86 Sicilian Defense: Sozin Attack 11-ply
- B83 Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen Variation, Modern Variation 17-ply
- B82 Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen Variation, Tal Variation 15-ply
- B83 Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen Variation, Modern Variation 19-ply