French Defense: Winawer Variation, Classical Variation

C18

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Qc7

How it went

17 ours · 322 masters

White wins 35% Draws 29% Black wins 36%

Continuations

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

Master games

Anand, Viswanathan — Ponkratov, Pavel 0-1 · 2015
Kasparov, Garry — Short, Nigel D 1-0 · 1997
Caruana, F.. — Rapport, R.. 0-1 · 2022
Karjakin, Sergey — Ivanchuk, Vasyl 1/2-1/2 · 2011
Anand V — Rapport, Richard 1/2-1/2 · 2021

Games in Spain

Pichot,A (2638) — Bernadskiy,V (2592) 1-0
Anton Guijarro,D (2625) — Nikolic,Pr (2546) 1-0
Chigaev,M (2588) — Shahinyan,D (2456) 1-0
Garcia Ramos,Daniel (2380) — Shipov,S (2541) 0-1
Ayats Llobera,Gerard (2453) — Diaz Camallonga,C (2482) 1/2-1/2
Marin Ferragut,Pau (2346) — Suarez Gomez,Julio (2477) 1-0
Vehi Bach,V (2294) — Diaz Camallonga,C (2463) 0-1
Martinez Fernandez,Adrian (2404) — Luukkonen,T (2250) 1-0

This line is also written

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Qc7
1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 Nc3 Bb4 4 e5 c5 5 a3 Bxc3+ 6 bxc3 Qc7
e4 e6 d4 d5 Nc3 Bb4 e5 c5 a3 Bxc3+ bxc3 Qc7
e4, e6, d4, d5, Nc3, Bb4, e5, c5, a3, Bxc3+, bxc3, Qc7