Caro-Kann Defense:Bronstein-Larsen Variation

It is reached after 10 moves: 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6+ gxf6. It is a line of the Caro-Kann Defense.

White is to move and has 35 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 1,004,091 different games. Those games reach 331,016 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 3 on average.

No later position on this line has a name of its own in the Lichess opening list: the names end here.

The same moves can be played in 38 different legal orders that all reach this position. For example 1. d4 c6 2. e4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6+ gxf6, which starts as the Queen's Pawn Game.