French Defence
1.e4 e6
2.d4 d5
White now has four major choices:
- 3. exd5 exd5 (Exchange Variation)
- 3. Nc3
- 3... dx34 (Rubinstein Variation)
- 3... Bb4 (Winawer Variation)
- 3... Nf6 (Classical or Steinitz Variation)
- 3. Nd2 (Tarrasch Variation)
- 3. e5 (Advance Variation or Nimzovitch Variation)