The French Defense: Advance Variation

I came across two videos on YouTube showing an interesting idea for The French Defense: Advance Variation. Here are the urls so you can take a quick look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cF2ZawEV_U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-FgGeU5wtA

I tried this idea out and it does seem to work. If anyone has any comments or analysis regarding this variation I would be interested. 

I am interested only in an evaluation of the ideas expressed in these videos. Anyone with games or analysis is welcome to send them in. 

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True, however, there are some regular posters in this forum who seem to constantly make cutting remarks, but presumably get it with it because they do not swear.  Personally, I do not see the difference.

The videos are at a pretty basic level, mostly about the Euwe variation. Against white's best response 6be2 prefer ne7-g6 to the discussed ne7-f5 but this is ok. Don't much like 6a3 a5 of the second video, white's b3 and subsequent play was pretty awful. Much prefer 6...c4 when can play Qc7, Ne7-c8-b6 plan tempos up on the equilivant position with Qb6 instead of Bd7.

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I changed my mind after reading Fiveofswords comments in the bishop endgame thead. Sorry Thrillerfan for insulting you.

Like FiveofSwords's comment in post 2!

And I might also add, I have knocked him before for "dissing" the Advance Variation.  Let's get the facts straight.  The Advance is a strong weapon against the French, and FiveOfSwords saying otherwise would be like me telling a Nimzo-Indian guru that they are wrong when I clearly have very limited knowledge in the Nimzo-Indian.  Know your strength, and don't diss what someone else with expertise on the topic is saying, which he has done to me many times in this specific topic, the Advance French.

Just thought I better clarify what the imbecile is saying in post 2.

Thanks for that concise summary!

In response to the OP, ignoring anything FiveOfSwords says, I see that these videos are to help a player playing Black against the French.

If you are playing against beginner level players, the videos may not mean much as they will exit book quickly.

Against more advanced opposition, I can tell you that while you need an idea of what to do against both lines, if you are going to play 5...Bd7, the first video is more prevalent as 6.Be2 is considered to be clearly stronger than 6.a3 against 5...Bd7.

The first one gives a decent overall view, but it's nowhere near complete.  One suggestion I will make is every move after the ...Nf5 move (in the lines where White doesn't take on c5), always be on the lookout every move for g4 by White.

Sometimes g4 will fail tactically for White, but Black must also be careful of when to play ...f6.  If White can reply to ...f6 with g4, not allowing the ...Nh4 idea, White will emerge with a significant advantage.  Black then must either retreat to e7, remaining cramped, or go to h6, in which case if White then takes on f6, Black may have a problem if the Bishop attacks h6 and isn't blocked because then a pawn recapture hangs the Knight on h6 while a piece recapture can lead to a fork on g5.

Again, all of that is simply ideas, nothing specific to the exact moves in the video.  Just ideas you have to watch out for after ...Nf5.  By no means saying Black is lost, just saying some tricks that Black must watch out for, and that while ...f6 may be the critical move to break up White's center in one position, it may also be an outright blunder in a very similar position because of a difference of the placement of a single piece or pawn by White or Black.