Petrov's Defense: French Attack

C42

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d3

How it went

60 ours · 263 masters

White wins 42% Draws 25% Black wins 33%

Continuations

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

Master games

Carlsen, Magnus — Bu, Xiangzhi 1-0 · 2016
Carlsen, Magnus — Caruana, Fabiano 1/2-1/2 · 2017
Carlsen, Magnus — Giri, Anish 1/2-1/2 · 2012
Anand, Viswanathan — Caruana, Fabiano 0-1 · 2018
Nakamura, Hikaru — Caruana, Fabiano 1/2-1/2 · 2019

Games in Spain

Vallejo Pons,F (2716) — Abdusattorov,Nodirbek (2713) 1/2-1/2
Bacrot,E (2647) — Aloma Vidal,R (2448) 1/2-1/2
McShane,L (2647) — Santos Ruiz,Miguel (2597) 1-0
Castellanos Rodriguez,R (2481) — Hammer,J (2628) 1/2-1/2
Chigaev,M (2624) — Horvath,Dominik (2542) 0-1
Baches Garcia,G (2326) — Paravyan,D (2620) 0-1
Chigaev,M (2617) — Bharath,Subramaniyam H (2517) 0-1
Chigaev,M (2617) — Murphy,Conor E (2450) 1-0

This line is also written

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.d3
1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nf6 3 Nxe5 d6 4 Nf3 Nxe4 5 d3
e4 e5 Nf3 Nf6 Nxe5 d6 Nf3 Nxe4 d3
e4, e5, Nf3, Nf6, Nxe5, d6, Nf3, Nxe4, d3