French Defense: Reversed Philidor Formation

C00

1. e4 e6 2. d3 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. Ngf3 Nc6 5. Be2

How it went

18 ours · 16 masters

White wins 39% Draws 22% Black wins 39%

Continuations

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

Master games

Petrosian, Tigran L. — Pourramezanali, Amirreza 1-0 · 2014
Lein, Anatoly — Portisch, Lajos 1/2-1/2 · 1978
Zhou, Jianchao — Batchuluun, Tsegmed 1/2-1/2 · 2020
Pedersen, Jan — Rustemov, Alexander 1/2-1/2 · 2002
Schmaltz, Roland — Vaganian, Rafael A 0-1 · 1999

Games in Spain

Chigaev,M (2615) — Andreikin,D (2729) 0-1
Chigaev,M (2641) — Clarke,B (2474) 1-0
Chigaev,M (2626) — Piliposyan,Robert (2442) 1/2-1/2
Chigaev,M (2622) — Korchynskyi,Mykola (2263) 1/2-1/2
Chigaev,M (2621) — Rodriguez Fontecha,M (2289) 1/2-1/2
Chigaev,M (2615) — Gedajlovic,Max (2403) 0-1
Mahdavi,Reza (2389) — Ruperez Benito,A (2333) 0-1
Gallegos,Ca (2374) — Hernando Rodrigo,Ju (2233) 0-1

This line is also written

1.e4 e6 2.d3 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.Ngf3 Nc6 5.Be2
1 e4 e6 2 d3 d5 3 Nd2 Nf6 4 Ngf3 Nc6 5 Be2
e4 e6 d3 d5 Nd2 Nf6 Ngf3 Nc6 Be2
e4, e6, d3, d5, Nd2, Nf6, Ngf3, Nc6, Be2