French Defense: Classical Variation
ECO C11, C13, C14 · 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6
Variations
- French Defense: Classical Variation, Burn Variation — 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 dxe4
- French Defense: Classical Variation, Delayed Exchange Variation — 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. exd5
- French Defense: Classical Variation, Steinitz Variation — 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5
- French Defense: Classical Variation, Swiss Variation — 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bd3
- French Defense: Classical Variation, Normal Variation — 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7
- French Defense: Classical Variation, Richter Attack — 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. Bxf6
- French Defense: Classical Variation, Shirov-Anand Variation — 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. Nce2
- French Defense: Classical Variation, Tartakower Variation — 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Ne4
- French Defense: Classical Variation, Vistaneckis Variation — 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Ng8
- French Defense: Classical Variation, Frankfurt Variation — 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Ng8 6. Be3 b6
- French Defense: Classical Variation, Alapin Variation — 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. Bxe7 Qxe7 7. Nb5
- French Defense: Classical Variation, Pollock Variation — 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. Bxe7 Qxe7 7. Qg4
- French Defense: Classical Variation, Rubinstein Variation — 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. Bxe7 Qxe7 7. Qd2
- French Defense: Classical Variation, Tarrasch Variation — 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. Bxe7 Qxe7 7. Bd3
- French Defense: Classical Variation, Stahlberg Variation — 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. Bxe7 Qxe7 7. f4 O-O 8. Nf3 c5 9. Qd2 Nc6 10. O-O-O c4
Related variations
- French Defense: Advance Variation
- French Defense: Exchange Variation
- French Defense: Tarrasch Variation
- French Defense: Winawer Variation
- French Defense: Banzai-Leong Gambit
- French Defense: Horwitz Attack
- French Defense: King's Indian Attack
- French Defense: Knight Variation
- French Defense: La Bourdonnais Variation
- French Defense: St. George Defense
- French Defense: Rubinstein Variation
- French Defense: McCutcheon Variation
- French Defense: Steinitz Variation
- French Defense: Alekhine-Chatard Attack
- French Defense: Bird Invitation
- French Defense: Chigorin Variation
- French Defense: Normal Variation
- French Defense: Queen's Knight
- French Defense: Réti-Spielmann Attack
- French Defense: Steiner Variation
- French Defense: Steinitz Attack
- French Defense: Baeuerle Gambit
- French Defense: Franco-Hiva Gambit
- French Defense: Franco-Sicilian Defense
- French Defense: Mediterranean Defense
- French Defense: Alapin Gambit
- French Defense: Diemer-Duhm Gambit
- French Defense: Franco-Hiva Gambit Accepted
- French Defense: Morphy Gambit
- French Defense: Paulsen Variation