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A21Opening

English Opening:King's English Variation, Reversed Sicilian

1. c4 e5 2. Nc3

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Black to move

Legal moves
30
Games in the next 4 moves
646,325
Different positions among them
214,996
Named lines from here
47

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It is reached after 3 moves: 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3. It is a line of the English Opening.

Black is to move and has 30 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 646,325 different games. Those games reach 214,996 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 3 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 47 further lines after this position, such as King's English Variation (2... d6 3. Nf3) and Two Knights Variation (2... Nf6).

No other order of these moves reaches this position: each move depends on the one before.

Map of every game of the next four moves after the English Opening: King's English Variation, Reversed Sicilian
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 646,325 games.

Move by move

  1. 1. c4English Opening
  2. 1... e5English Opening: King's English Variation
  3. 2. Nc3English Opening: King's English Variation, Reversed Sicilian

Named lines from here

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