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Couple fixes in the French Defense:

  • MacCutcheon -> McCutcheon. Correct spelling for the variation named after John Lindsay McCutcheon (1857-1905)
  • Burn Variation starts with 4...dxe4.
  • Consistency in the Guimard Variation/Defense. It can probably remain subordinated to the Tarrasch Variation.

and proposed addition:

  • Shirov-Anand Variation, 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. Nce2 as seen in Lakdawala, The Classical French (2014). And wikipedia.

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MacCutcheon -> McCutcheon. Correct spelling for the variation named after John Lindsay McCutcheon (1857-1905)

This seems to check out : https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=86374 -> https://sites.pitt.edu/~schach/Newsletters/2006SpringPWP.pdf

John Lindsay McCutcheon (not “MacCutcheon” as his name is often misprinted

And adding Shirov-Anand 👍 . The other changes LGTM as well.

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niklasf commented Jun 10, 2025

Thanks!

@niklasf niklasf merged commit 5052245 into lichess-org:master Jun 10, 2025
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