A20Opening

English Opening:King's English Variation

1. c4 e5

White to move

Legal moves: 22
Games in the next 4 moves: 485,672
Different positions among them: 169,041
Named lines from here: 58

It is reached after 2 moves: 1. c4 e5. It is a line of the English Opening.

White is to move and has 22 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 485,672 different games. Those games reach 169,041 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 2.9 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 58 further lines after this position, such as Reversed Sicilian (2. Nc3) and Four Knights Variation, Fianchetto Line (2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Nf3 Nc6).

Map of every game of the next four moves after the English Opening: King's English 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 485,672 games.

Move by move

1. c4English Opening
1... e5English Opening: King's English Variation

Named lines from here

Reversed SicilianA212. Nc3
Four Knights Variation, Fianchetto LineA292. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Nf3 Nc6
Nimzowitsch VariationA202. Nf3
Reversed Closed SicilianA252. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 Nc6 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. e4 d6 6. Nge2
Drill VariationA202. g3 h5
Kahiko-Hula GambitA202. e3 Nf6 3. f4 exf4 4. Nf3
Reversed Closed SicilianA252. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 Nc6 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Nd5

Related openings

English OpeningA101. c4
English Opening: Symmetrical VariationA301. c4 c5
English Opening: Anglo-Indian DefenseA151. c4 Nf6
English Opening: Agincourt DefenseA131. c4 e6

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