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A13Opening

English Opening:Agincourt Defense

1. c4 e6

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White to move

Legal moves
22
Games in the next 4 moves
483,309
Different positions among them
167,343
Named lines from here
37

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The name is a joke about the battle of Agincourt: 1. c4 e6 sets the English against the French.

It is reached after 2 moves: 1. c4 e6. It is a line of the English Opening.

White is to move and has 22 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 483,309 different games. Those games reach 167,343 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 2.9 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 37 further lines after this position, such as Symmetrical Variation, Anti-Benoni Variation, Spielmann Defense (2. d4 c5 3. Nf3 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6).

Map of every game of the next four moves after the English Opening: Agincourt Defense
Every game of the next four moves from this position, as the map draws it. Each ring is one more move; the outer ring holds all 483,309 games.

Move by move

  1. 1. c4English Opening
  2. 1... e6English Opening: Agincourt Defense

Named lines from here

Famous games through this position

The Game Spassky ApplaudedFischer – Spassky, Reykjavik 1972, move 1Fischer almost never opened 1.c4; here he did, and at the end even Spassky joined the applause.

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FEN

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