French Defense: Tarrasch Variation, Closed Variation, Main Line

C06

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. Bd3 c5 6. c3 Nc6 7. Ne2 cxd4 8. cxd4

How it went

234 ours · 1,403 masters

White wins 49% Draws 11% Black wins 40%

Continuations

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French Defense: Tarrasch Variation, Leningrad Variation C06 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. Bd3 c5 6. c3 Nc6 7. Ne2 cxd4 8. cxd4 Nb6 5

Master games

Ivanchuk, Vasyl — Moskalenko, Viktor 1/2-1/2 · 2005
Timman, Jan H — Morozevich, Alexander 1-0 · 2000
Adams, Michael — Gurevich, M... 1/2-1/2 · 2001
Adams, Michael — Sebenik, Matej 1-0 · 2002
Savchenko, Boris — Ponomariov, Ruslan 1-0 · 2010

Games in Spain

Kurpnieks,V (1983) — Shirov,A (2677) 0-1
Shankland,S (2670) — Garcia Gracia,Victor Hugo (2196) 1-0
Pichot,A (2648) — Uzcategui Rodriguez,Alejandro (2235) 1-0
Pichot,A (2641) — Pesotskiy,Mikhail (2217) 1/2-1/2
Pichot,A (2638) — Jain,Kashish Manoj (2375) 1-0
Azarov,S (2604) — Pazos Porta,A (2373) 1-0
Sosa,T ARG (2540) — Fernandez Garcia,Ja (2038) 1-0
Alsina Leal,D (2525) — Jul Perez,Alberto (2095) 1-0

This line is also written

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.Bd3 c5 6.c3 Nc6 7.Ne2 cxd4 8.cxd4
1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 Nd2 Nf6 4 e5 Nfd7 5 Bd3 c5 6 c3 Nc6 7 Ne2 cxd4 8 cxd4
e4 e6 d4 d5 Nd2 Nf6 e5 Nfd7 Bd3 c5 c3 Nc6 Ne2 cxd4 cxd4
e4, e6, d4, d5, Nd2, Nf6, e5, Nfd7, Bd3, c5, c3, Nc6, Ne2, cxd4, cxd4