Structure de pions
♔ Blancs ♚ Noirs
Pions doublés
Pions isolés
Arriérés
Chaînes
Passés
Majorité
Cases
♔ Blancs ♚ Noirs
Cases fortes ● b5 (2v0), ● d5 (2v1)
Cases faibles
Centre ● d5 (2v1) ● d4 (1v0)
Colonnes et diagonales
♔ Blancs ♚ Noirs
Pièces
♔ Blancs ♚ Noirs
Bc1 ● Bc1 Non développé (mob. 0)
Bf1 ● Bf1 Non développé (mob. 0)
Bc8 ● Bc8 Non développé (mob. 0)
Bf8 ● Bf8 Non développé (mob. 0)
Paire de fous ● Oui ● Oui
Non développées 5 (● g1, ● c1, ● f1, ● a1, ● h1) 5 (● b8, ● c8, ● f8, ● a8, ● h8)
Sécurité du roi
♔ Blancs ♚ Noirs
Statut ● Au centre ● Au centre
Droits de roque O-O / O-O-O O-O / O-O-O
Thèmes
♔ Blancs ♚ Noirs
Phase Ouverture
Centre mobile
Ruptures ● d2-d4 ● …d7-d5

A34d — English: Symmetrical, 2…Nf6

1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nf6 *   ○ Trait aux Blancs

Ouverture — Centre mobile

♔ Point de vue Blancs

8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
bR
bN
bB
bQ
bK
bB
bR
bP
bP
bP
bP
bP
bP
bP
bN
Case forte (2v0)
bP
Case forte (2v1)
wP
wN
wP
wP
wP
wP
wP
wP
wP
wR
wB
wQ
wK
wB
wN
wR
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Plans. g3 (Préparer le fianchetto — 51 % des parties) ; Nf3 (Développer g1 — 43 % des parties) ; e4 (Occuper le centre — 5 % des parties).

♚ Point de vue Noirs

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
wR
wN
wB
wK
wQ
wB
wR
wP
wP
wP
wP
wP
wP
wP
wN
wP
bP
bN
bP
bP
bP
bP
bP
bP
bP
bR
bB
bK
bQ
bB
bN
bR
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Plans. ...d5 (Occuper le centre — 30 % des parties) ; ...e6 (Solidifier le centre, libérer le fou — 27 % des parties) ; ...Nc6 (Développer b8 — 20 % des parties) ; ...g6 (Préparer le fianchetto — 18 % des parties).
Avantages
Faiblesses
Diagonale active
Plans
├── A34i - 3.Nf3 - English Opening: Symmetrical Variation, Three Knights Variation [+0.26] · 335 parties
│ ├── A34n - 3…d5 - Symmetrical, 3 Knights (1927) [+0.20] · 285 parties
│ │ ├── A34q - 4.cxd5 Nxd5 - Exchange (1927) [+0.31] · 283 parties
│ │ │ ├── A34s - 5.g3 - Symmetrical, 3 Knights (1925) [+0.10] · 97 parties
│ │ │ ├── A34q - 5.* - Symmetrical, 3 Knights, Exchange · 81 parties
│ │ │ ├── A34t - 5.e4 - Symmetrical, 3 Knights (1937) [+0.24] · 65 parties
│ │ │ │ ├── A34w - 5…Nb4 - Symmetrical, 3 Knights (1928) [+0.26] · 50 parties
│ │ │ │ │ ├── A34a - 6.Bc4 - Symmetrical, 3 Knights (1926) [+0.22] · 35 parties
│ │ │ │ │ ├── A34b - 6.Bb5+ - Symmetrical, 3 Knights (1975) [+0.19] · 13 parties
│ │ │ │ │ └── A34w - 6.* - Symmetrical, 3 Knights · 2 parties
│ │ │ │ ├── A34x - 5…Nxc3 - Symmetrical, 3 Knights (1933) [+0.60] · 10 parties
│ │ │ │ │ ├── A34a - 6.dxc3 Qxd1+ 7.Kxd1 - Queenswap (1931) [+0.25] · 5 parties
│ │ │ │ │ └── A34x - 6.* - Symmetrical, 3 Knights · 5 parties
│ │ │ │ └── A34t - 5…* - Symmetrical, 3 Knights · 5 parties
│ │ │ └── A34u - 5.d4 - Symmetrical, 3 Knights (1953) [+0.29] · 40 parties
│ │ │ ├── A34z - 5…Nxc3 - Symmetrical, 3 Knights (1926) [+0.27] · 31 parties
│ │ │ ├── A34y - 5…cxd4 - Symmetrical, 3 Knights (1925) [+0.49] · 8 parties
│ │ │ └── A34u - 5…* - Symmetrical, 3 Knights · 1 partie
│ │ └── A34n - 4.* - Symmetrical, 3 Knights · 2 parties
│ ├── A34p - 3…e6 4.g3 - Symmetrical, 3 Knights (1947) [+0.25] · 25 parties
│ ├── A34l - 3…b6 - Symmetrical, 3 Knights (1929) [+0.47] · 16 parties
│ └── A34m - 3…g6 - Symmetrical, 3 Knights (1923) [+0.52] · 9 parties
├── A34h - 3.g3 - Symmetrical (1925) [+0.17] · 207 parties
│ ├── A34j - 3…d5 - Symmetrical (1956) [+0.26] · 128 parties
│ │ ├── A34r - 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Bg2 - Symmetrical (1932) [+0.14] · 126 parties
│ │ │ ├── A34v - 5…Nc7 - Rubinstein System (1947) [+0.12] · 111 parties
│ │ │ └── A34r - 5…* - Symmetrical · 15 parties
│ │ └── A34j - 4.* - Symmetrical · 2 parties
│ └── A34h - 3…* - Symmetrical · 79 parties
└── A34d - 3.* - Symmetrical · 23 parties

Les parties, variante par variante

1335 partiesA34i - 3.Nf3 - English Opening: Symmetrical Variation, Three Knights Variation

2207 partiesA34h - 3.g3 - Symmetrical (1925)

A34d — Symmetrical (1928)
1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nf6
Les coups candidats
Ambassadeurs : Bischoff, Klaus (29x), Schuett, Wilhelm (28x), Ftacnik, Lubomir (26x), Suba, Mihai (21x), Taimanov, Mark (17x), Korchnoi, Viktor (16x), Larsen, Bent Ravn (15x), Sunye Neto, Jaime (14x)
Ambassadeurs : Uhlmann, Wolfgang (61x), Suba, Mihai (46x), Ftacnik, Lubomir (37x), Korchnoi, Viktor (35x), Sunye Neto, Jaime (24x), Sarosy, Zoltan L (18x), Portisch, Lajos (18x), Szabo, Laszlo (17x)
3.e4 — 7.2% (1713 parties)
Ambassadeurs : Miezis, Normunds (41x), Williams, Simon K (15x), Volosin, Vladimir (11x), D'Oliveira, Marcos Arruda (7x), Ye, Rongguang (6x), Schunk, Thomas (6x), Filguth, Rubens Alberto (5x), Franklin, Michael J (5x)
3.e3 — 1.1% (270 parties)
Ambassadeurs : Zamodics, Ferenc (3x), Nei, Iivo (2x), Hantke, Rolf (2x), Oestreich, Reinhard (2x), Matveeva, Svetlana (2x), Brustkern, Juergen (2x), Duda, Aleksandra (2x), Golombek, Harry (1x)
Analyse statistique des coups candidats
Répartition par niveau Elo (% des parties)
Tranche Elo N parties 3.g3 3.Nf3 3.e4 3.e3
<1800 1461 55% 33% 8% 2%
1800-2200 9142 53% 36% 9% 1%
2200-2600 8944 45% 48% 6% 1%
2600+ 326 39% 60% 1% 1%
Évolution par décennie (% des parties)
Décennie N parties 3.g3 3.Nf3 3.e4 3.e3
1950s 320 60% 36% 3%
1960s 362 62% 33% 3% 2%
1970s 904 47% 49% 3% 1%
1980s 2161 48% 47% 4% 1%
1990s 4885 49% 41% 8% 1%
2000s 6579 49% 40% 9% 1%
2010s 6497 50% 40% 7% 1%
2020s 2093 49% 42% 7% 1%
Tendances récentes (2010s → 2020s)
Coup 2010s 2020s Δ
3.g3 50% 49% ▼ -1.5%
3.Nf3 40% 42% ▲ +2.1%
3.e4 7% 7% -0.2%
3.e3 1% 1% +0.0%
Joueurs célèbres
Champions du monde dans cette position
Tal, Mikhail — 10 parties
Karpov, Anatoly — 10 parties
Kasparov, Garry — 10 parties
Carlsen, Magnus — 10 parties
Botvinnik, Mikhail — 7 parties
Kramnik, Vladimir — 7 parties
Ju, Wenjun — 7 parties
Ding, Liren — 3 parties
Gukesh D — 2 parties
Hou, Yifan — 1 partie
Parties historiques
3.g3 — 49.4% (11767 parties)
1950 — Nuesken, Fritz vs Pietzsch, Wolfgang — 0-1 — Soemmerda GER
1950 — Richter, Emil vs Kozma, Edmund — 1/2-1/2 — Zlin ch CZE
1950 — Hain, Willi vs Christoph, Manfred, Dr. — 0-1 — Detmold
1951 — Stoltz, Gösta vs Balanel, Ion — 1-0 — Marianske Lazne zt
1951 — Stoltz, Gosta vs Heidenfeld, Wolfgang — 1-0 — Marianske Lazne/Prah
3.Nf3 — 41.5% (9885 parties)
1950 — Canal, Esteban vs O'Kelly, Albéric de Galway — 0-1 — Dubrovnik olm
1950 — GIDEON SUNDAY vs Szabo, Laszlo — 1/2-1/2 — Budapest HUN
1950 — Sarosy, Zoltan L vs K, Samuel Jeba — 1-0 — Toronto CAN
1950 — Kottnauer, Cenek vs Troianescu, Octav — 0-1 — Schiavno Zdroj
1951 — Florian, Tibor vs Stein, Georg — 1/2-1/2 — Bucharest ROU
3.e4 — 7.2% (1713 parties)
1950 — Larsen, Ingrid vs Keller-Hermann, Edith — 0-1 — Moscow RUS
1951 — Niephaus, Walter vs Teschner, Rudolf — 1-0 — Augsburg GER
1951 — Avery, Peter vs Sarosy, Zoltan L — 1-0 — Toronto CAN
1953 — Huebener, Joachim U G vs Duenhaupt, Heinz-Wilhelm Dr — 1/2-1/2 — corr ch3-BdF
1955 — Gniot, Tadeusz vs Gawliczek, Andreas — 1-0 — Poland ch13
3.e3 — 1.1% (270 parties)
1961 — Golombek, Harry vs Henneberke, Frans — 1/2-1/2 — Zevenaar
1961 — Johannessen, Svein vs Filip, Miroslav — 1/2-1/2 — Marianske Lazne zt
1961 — Nei, Iivo vs Klaman, Konstantin Mikhailovich — 1-0 — Riga LAT
1962 — Ryum Garber, David vs Sloan, Sam — 0-1 — South East Pennsylvania Open;
1963 — Hantke, Rolf vs Oestreich, Reinhard — 1-0 — Buende