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- Instance of
- chess opening
- Subclass of
- King's Pawn Game
- Sport
- chess
- Image
- French defence.png
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- Portable Game Notation
- e4 e6
- Stack Exchange tag
- chess.stackexchange.com/tags/french-defense
- position in Forsyth-Edwards Notation
- rnbqkbnr/pppp1ppp/4p3/8/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 2
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Encyclopedic overview
Moves1.e4 e6 ECOC00–C19 Named afterLondon vs. Paris correspondence match (1834–1836) ParentKing's Pawn Game
The French Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “French defence” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.