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Sicilian Defense:French Variation

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6

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White to move

Legal moves
28
Games in the next 4 moves
698,139
Different positions among them
233,843
Named lines from here
62

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It is reached after 4 moves: 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6. It is a line of the Sicilian Defense.

White is to move and has 28 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 698,139 different games. Those games reach 233,843 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 3 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 62 further lines after this position, such as Open (3. d4 cxd4) and Delayed Alapin Variation, with e6 (3. c3).

The same moves can be played in 4 different legal orders that all reach this position. For example 1. Nf3 c5 2. e4 e6, which starts as the Zukertort Opening.

Map of every game of the next four moves after the Sicilian Defense: French 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 698,139 games.

Move by move

  1. 1. e4King's Pawn Game
  2. 1... c5Sicilian Defense
  3. 2. Nf3Sicilian Defense
  4. 2... e6Sicilian Defense: French Variation

Named lines from here

Famous games through this position

The Octopus KnightKarpov – Kasparov, Moscow 1985, move 2Kasparov's knight digs in on d3 and paralyses White; that match made him world champion.

Related openings

FEN

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