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1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Bb4
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♞ You have reached French Defense: McCutcheon Variation C12 — the catalogued line ends exactly here.
Matching openings 12
- French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Advance Variation C12 1 ply deeper
- French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Exchange Variation C12 1 ply deeper
- French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Bernstein Variation C12 3 plies deeper
- French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Chigorin Variation C12 3 plies deeper
- French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Dr. Olland Variation C12 3 plies deeper
- French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Janowski Variation C12 3 plies deeper
- French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Lasker Variation C12 4 plies deeper
- French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Tartakower Variation C12 4 plies deeper
- French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Bogoljubow Variation C12 6 plies deeper
- French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Lasker Variation C12 8 plies deeper
- French Defense: McCutcheon Variation, Grigoriev Variation C12 9 plies deeper
…and 1 more lines run through this position — keep making moves to narrow it down.
3810 catalogued lines in total · openings encyclopedia