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The French Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: 1. e4 e6. ... 2.c4 (attempting to discourage 2...d5 by Black) is the Steiner Variation. But Black ...
White can play 2.c4 for the English Opening or 2.e4 for the French Defense (if Black plays 2...d5) or the Sicilian Defense (if Black plays 2...c5). Another non-committal move for White is 2.d4, which can lead to the Sicilian Defense , the Queen's Gambit Declined , the Dutch Defense , the Indian Defenses , the King's Indian Attack , or the ...
8 French Defense. 9 Indian Defense. 10 Italian Game. 11 King's ... 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 c6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Bd3 Bb7 9.e4 b4 10.Na4 c5 11.e5 ...
Alexander Alekhine played the Réti in the 1920s, but at that time almost any game that began with Nf3 and c4 by White was considered to be the Réti. Réti popularized these moves against all defenses in the spirit of hypermodernism , and as the opening developed it gained structure and a clearer distinction between it and other openings.
Argentine Gambit of the Baltic Defence – 1.d4 d5 2.c4 Bf5 3.cxd5 Bxb1 4.Qa4+ c6 5.dxc6 Nxc6; Argentine Variation of the Cambridge Springs Defence – 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Nbd7 5.e3 c6 6.Nf3 Qa5 7.Nd2 Bb4 8.Qc2 0-0 9.Bh4; Arkhangelsk Defence (or Archangel Defence) of the Ruy Lopez – 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 b5 6 ...
Bogo-Indian Defence – 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+ – named after Efim Bogoljubov; Bogoljubov Defense – 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 Nc6 – named after Efim Bogoljubov; Boleslavsky Variation of the Sicilian Defence – 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Be2 e5 – named after Isaac Boleslavsky [17]
Although not very aggressive for a first move, play may transpose to lines of the English Opening (c2–c4), Queen's Pawn Game (d2–d4), or French Defense (delayed d2–d4), reversed Dutch Defense (f2–f4) positions, the modern variation of Larsen's Opening (b2–b3), or the Stonewall Attack.
Only an incompetent Black player would try to transpose to the 3.e3 e5 4.Bxc4 exd4 5.exd4 QGA line that Kasparov and Karpov played, or the 4.Nf3 Bd6 5.c4 French Exchange main line that Carlsen played, when White chooses 4.c4 in the Exchange.