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A30Opening

English Opening:Symmetrical Variation

1. c4 c5

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White to move

Legal moves
21
Games in the next 4 moves
248,775
Different positions among them
89,969
Named lines from here
30

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It is reached after 2 moves: 1. c4 c5. It is a line of the English Opening.

White is to move and has 21 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 248,775 different games. Those games reach 89,969 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 2.8 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 30 further lines after this position, such as Normal Variation (2. Nc3) and Ultra-Symmetrical Variation (2. g3 g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. Nc3 Nc6).

Map of every game of the next four moves after the English Opening: Symmetrical Variation
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 248,775 games.

Move by move

  1. 1. c4English Opening
  2. 1... c5English Opening: Symmetrical Variation

Named lines from here

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