French Defense: Advance Variation, Lputian Variation
In the French Defense: Advance Variation, Lputian Variation, aim to understand the plans and pawn structures, not just memorize the first moves.
The French Defense: Advance Variation, Lputian Variation is a chess opening classified under ECO code C02. It is reached after the moves 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Qb6 6. a3 Nh6: 12 moves in, with White to play.
It belongs to the French Defense family — one of many ways the line can branch. Understanding the parent system’s plans is the fastest way to play this variation well.
Club players rarely lose the French Defense: Advance Variation, Lputian Variation in the opening itself. They lose it a few moves later, when the plan behind the moves runs out: that is what reading your own games in this line shows you.