Hi friends, ever since I was crippled in a match with a GM, I have been looking for a bust for the opening....

I found this link which seems to claim that it actually "busts" it

http://www.thechessmind.net/storage/chess-posts/2_be2_french_1.htm.

And by the way, the opening went so painful that I rewalized that I was in no equality:

So.... please help me with plausible replies trhanks in advance!

An easy way to play to play the french would be the exchange variation. 

6. dxc5 is probably where you went wrong. It's not a move played at the GM level and the few attempts in my database (ChessBase MegaBase 2012) score poorly. 7. Be3 is a definite error, but you were already in bad shape.

6. a3 c4 7. Nbd2 is a typical continuation from that position.

Grischuk has a number of games continuing 6. a3 that are worth looking at, he does very well on the white side of the French.

one does not simply... bust hundreds of years of opening theory

Then one playing the French should always thrive?! Not practical.....

If you're going to allow the French, then you need to have a line to play against it. The Advance french is a fine choice, but you have to know the critical positions and ideas. There's not a lot of good sidelines here, there's really only 3 main ideas:

6. a3 -- which is currently the most popular way of playing it at the highest levels.

6. Be2 -- the old main line

6. Bd3 -- where you better know the theory like the back of your hand 'cause it's game on :)

not necessarily. I'm not saying that french players will do well all the time, in fact i dont like the opening myself. I'm just saying that with any opening you cant "bust" them. :)

Thanks guys... I was thinking..... How about the beloni with a mirror french???

dahal, you are not forced to exchange on move 6. Get a few of the actual moves right first, then you can come back and complain about it. Do you even realize this is the advance variation you're playing? 

This move comes pretty close to busting the french. It creates a whole slew of other problems, but those problems are decidedly different from main-line french.

Now you must be ready to play a sicilian with your queen on e2, or for e4/e5 where white has an extra move and used that free move to play Qe2.

Hey wow there's a non-zero chance e4 e6 Qe2 e5 will turn into a Parham.

Get back to us when a super-GM (not some unknown nobody) announces a "bust" to the FD or any other well-estb. opening. BTW we won't be holding our collective breathes

d4xc5 can be a logical idea for White in some cases in the pawn chain, for instance in the Steinitz Attack 3 Nc3 Nf6  4 e5  Nfd7  5 Nf3 c5  6 dxc5.  White clears the d4 square, which may be a good place for a Knight, and cuts across Black's basic strategy to eventually play ...cxd4 cxd4 and focus his attack on the d4 pawn which now must be defended by pieces.

But here all you do is help Black - with his Qb6 already, you give him an instant threat on your most vulnerable point at f2, and now White must play 7 Qe2 or Qc2 to defend it instead of developing.  You aren't being aggressive and developing your own minor pieces to generate threats, you are defending!  Black is already at least equal, and has a comfortable game.

There was no threat on d4 yet.  If 6 Be2, d4 is attacked twice and defended twice, you can continue development as it will take some time for Black to put a third attacker in place.  But as noted above by Kingpatzer, 6 a3 is the overwhelming choice of modern masters.  Black is still okay, but White now has the additional possibility of b4 in hand, which complicates Black's task.

Black isn't forced to play ...c4, but it is a popular alternative to release the tension and go to a maneuvering game.  Closing the Queenside isn't bad, but it does make active counterplay harder to come by.  Because of this, White has tended to score pretty well in this line.

There is no way to "bust" an opening like French defense.Your game clearly shows poor understanding of the pawn structure so if you want to play against French defense better maybe try to understand it instead of trying to find a good line against it.

    Anyone who suggests a line as a "buster" obviously doesn't understand a thing about French defense and probably very few about chess.

Am I missing something? Nepal doesn't even have any GMs.

http://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtml?ina=1&country=NEP

The highest-rated player is 2127.

"Nepal buddhi chal sangh" translate: Nepal chess federation is our parent for all the data as well as titles. And we HAVE more than a dozen GMs assosiated in this assosiation. The highest FIDE title Nepal has won is "FM" FM Manish Hamal(he was the first).

dued try the tarrarch.

If he doesn't want to learn 6 moves of the advance, why recommend a more theoretically deep variation?

:)

well that is a good question. I like it because I don't have to deal with Bb4 now.