French Defense: Chigorin Variation

C00

1. e4 e6 2. Qe2

How it went

295 ours · 459 masters

White wins 53% Draws 12% Black wins 35%

Continuations

This line has no named subvariations in the catalogue. It is a branch end.

Master games

Nakamura, Hikaru — Savchenko, Boris 1-0 · 2014
Karjakin, Sergey — Vallejo Pons, Francisco 1-0 · 2011
Ivanchuk, Vasyl — Harikrishna, Pentala 1/2-1/2 · 2016
Moiseenko, Va — Grischuk, A. 0-1 · 2022
Amin, B. — Vidit, S. 1/2-1/2 · 2022

Games in Spain

Carlsen,M (2830) — Hernando Rodrigo,Ju (2233) 1-0
Artemiev,V (2709) — Pazos Porta,A (2373) 1-0
Deac,Bogdan-Daniel (2696) — Shirov,A (2648) 1-0
Sindarov,Javokhir (2682) — Rodriguez Fontecha,M (2278) 1-0
Zakarian,D (2306) — Shirov,A (2681) 0-1
Pichot,A (2630) — Bluebaum,M (2670) 1/2-1/2
Kamsky,G (2665) — Martin Fuentes,A (2388) 1-0
Kamsky,G (2658) — Taboas Rodriguez,D (2355) 1-0

This line is also written

1.e4 e6 2.Qe2
1 e4 e6 2 Qe2
e4 e6 Qe2
e4, e6, Qe2