Any good weapons against the french?

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Sea_TurtIe
blueemu wrote:
Sea_TurtIe wrote:

i love developing rooks up to h3/a3

As White, I used to play a bizarre Knight-sacrifice against the Alekhine's. The line allows you to develop BOTH Rooks up the a- and h-files.

is it sound? can you show example game(s)?

blueemu
Sea_TurtIe wrote:
blueemu wrote:
Sea_TurtIe wrote:

i love developing rooks up to h3/a3

As White, I used to play a bizarre Knight-sacrifice against the Alekhine's. The line allows you to develop BOTH Rooks up the a- and h-files.

is it sound? can you show example game(s)?

I don't have any game score from this line (too long ago), but Tartakower used to play it in Master tournaments.

Sound? Engines don't like it... but engines seem to be under the impression that White is trying to mate at f7, like a beginner.

In fact, White's plan is strategic, not tactical. With his advanced center Pawns, White cuts the board into two pieces, one of which contains virtually all the Black army (and nothing else!), and the other one contains Black's King and the entire White army.

Sea_TurtIe
blueemu wrote:
Sea_TurtIe wrote:

i love developing rooks up to h3/a3

As White, I used to play a bizarre Knight-sacrifice against the Alekhine's. The line allows you to develop BOTH Rooks up the a- and h-files.

why would they play g6?

most people in that position play Bg4 or e6

blueemu
Sea_TurtIe wrote:
blueemu wrote:
Sea_TurtIe wrote:

i love developing rooks up to h3/a3

As White, I used to play a bizarre Knight-sacrifice against the Alekhine's. The line allows you to develop BOTH Rooks up the a- and h-files.

why would they play g6?

most people in that position play Bg4 or e6

4. ... g6 is a perfectly respectable line, the second-most-popular move in that position.

Played by Bobby Fischer in his WCC match against Spassky, and also by Ivanchuk and by Ding.

LosTejano

The resign button.

darkunorthodox88
Sea_TurtIe wrote:

playing trap/hope chess is not a great way to become better

why the hell not? two knights is a fully sound way to play the french. the abundance of traps is a plus not a minus.
do you want to endure a noob playing 17 move of french theory on you and playing artificially stonger than he is or would you rather dispatch them quickly oncce their understanding is proving to be lacking?

Ilampozhil25

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8th march sees someone saying something similar to them and jumps onto it

just an fyi for literally everyone: 8th march thinks that theory is bad at all levels, up to super gm and beyond