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1. e4 e6 2. Nc3 d5 3. d4 Nf6
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♞ You have reached French Defense: Classical Variation C11 — the catalogued line ends exactly here.
Book continuations win% from 1.5M rated games
Matching openings 50
- French Defense: Classical Variation C11 1 ply deeper
- French Defense: Classical Variation, Delayed Exchange Variation C11 1 ply deeper
- French Defense: Classical Variation, Steinitz Variation C11 1 ply deeper
- French Defense: Classical Variation, Swiss Variation C11 1 ply deeper
- French Defense: Henneberger Variation C11 1 ply deeper
- French Defense: Classical Variation, Burn Variation C11 2 plies deeper
- French Defense: McCutcheon Variation C12 2 plies deeper
- French Defense: Classical Variation, Normal Variation C13 2 plies deeper
- French Defense: Exchange Variation, Svenonius Variation C01 3 plies deeper
- French Defense: Classical Variation, Shirov-Anand Variation C11 3 plies deeper
- French Defense: Steinitz Variation, Gledhill Attack C11 3 plies deeper
- French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Advance Variation C12 3 plies deeper
…and 38 more lines run through this position — keep making moves to narrow it down.
3810 catalogued lines in total · openings encyclopedia