Chess opening
English DefenseA40
The English Defense is a chess opening classified under ECO code A40. It is reached after the moves:
1. d4 e6 2. c4 b6
Play it vs Stockfish Open in analysis board
Comes from
Main continuations
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Alapin Variation (D31)
- English Defense: Perrin Variation (A40)
- English Defense: Poli Gambit (A40)
Related lines in the English Defense
- English Defense (A40)
- English Defense: Eastbourne Gambit (A40)
- English Defense: Hartlaub Gambit Accepted (A40)
- English Defense: Hartlaub Gambit Declined (A40)
- English Defense: Perrin Variation (A40)
- English Defense: Poli Gambit (A40)
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