A minor misspelling ("Franco-Scilian")

In this game: http://en.lichess.org/eqx9MdSG

Lichess said the opening was the "Sicilian Defence, Franco-Scilian Variation."

"Sicilian" is spelled wrong the second time.

What a strange bug.

We're all humans, it happens. :)

This tells me it's the Franco-Scilian variation. I don't think it's a Franco-Sicilian.

http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/opening/2753

After some more research I'm 95% sure this is by design.

Let's go w/ human error....I can't find Franco-Scilian on the web

lmddgtfy.net/?q=Sicilian%20Defence%2C%20Franco-Scilian%20Variation
http://www.masterchessopen.com/eco-code-b30-b34-on-chess-boards.html

In fact, the only usage of name "Franco-Sicilian" I can find is on a chess.com forum post: http://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-openings/the-franco-sicilian-defense
But first, it's on chess.com (automatically untrustworthy), and secondly it's user contributed content rather than an article on their chessopedia.

If you can link to an ECO entry that states it being the "Franco-Sicilian Variation", then that's grounds on it getting fixed ;)

Surely it must be a typo that popped in at some point before different sites copied each other's ECO codes. Franco-Sicilian because black played c5 like a Sicilian Defense and e6 like a French Defense.

It looks like DuckDuckGo is automatically correcting "Scilian" in the search which might explain why there are so many hits. For example the second result from your search is a link to the wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Sicilian_defense

Ok.

It looks like Chesstempo gets it correct when the move order for Black starts with the French e6 and then the Sicilian c6: http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/opening/1579