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Caro-Kann Defense:Advance Variation

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5

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Black to move

Legal moves
27
Games in the next 4 moves
949,094
Different positions among them
305,825
Named lines from here
10

See it on the mapOn the opening map

White gains space with 3. e5; Black usually develops the bishop to f5 before playing ...e6.

It is reached after 5 moves: 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5. It is a line of the Caro-Kann Defense.

Black is to move and has 27 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 949,094 different games. Those games reach 305,825 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 3.1 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 10 further lines after this position, such as Van der Wiel Attack (3... Bf5 4. Nc3) and Botvinnik-Carls Defense (3... c5).

The same moves can be played in 6 different legal orders that all reach this position. For example 1. d4 c6 2. e4 d5 3. e5, which starts as the Queen's Pawn Game.

Map of every game of the next four moves after the Caro-Kann Defense: Advance Variation
Every game of the next four moves from this position, as the map draws it. Each ring is one more move; the outer ring holds all 949,094 games.

Move by move

  1. 1. e4King's Pawn Game
  2. 1... c6Caro-Kann Defense
  3. 2. d4Caro-Kann Defense
  4. 2... d5Caro-Kann Defense
  5. 3. e5Caro-Kann Defense: Advance Variation

Named lines from here

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