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French Defense:Classical Variation, Burn Variation

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 dxe4

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White to move

Legal moves
44
Games in the next 4 moves
2,021,859
Different positions among them
652,648
Named lines from here
3

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It is reached after 8 moves: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 dxe4. It is a line of the French Defense.

White is to move and has 44 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 2,021,859 different games. Those games reach 652,648 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 3.1 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 3 further lines after this position, such as Classical Variation (5. Nxe4 Be7).

The same moves can be played in 120 different legal orders that all reach this position. For example 1. d4 e6 2. e4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 dxe4, which starts as the Queen's Pawn Game.

Map of every game of the next four moves after the French Defense: Classical Variation, Burn 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 2,021,859 games.

Move by move

  1. 1. e4King's Pawn Game
  2. 1... e6French Defense
  3. 2. d4French Defense: Normal Variation
  4. 2... d5French Defense
  5. 3. Nc3French Defense: Paulsen Variation
  6. 3... Nf6French Defense: Classical Variation
  7. 4. Bg5French Defense, Classical, 4. Bg5
  8. 4... dxe4French Defense: Classical Variation, Burn Variation

Named lines from here

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