Why Simon Loves The French
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ParanoydKing
May 16, 2017
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Where did you get these games? I own attacking chess the French by Simon Williams and in the French advance he prefers Qc7 and f6
CNoahSay έγραψε:
Where did you get these games? I own attacking chess the French by Simon Williams and in the French advance he prefers Qc7 and f6
You know why he prefers move A over move B or C, or you just trust him (or anybody else)?
The Bd7/Nge7 plan is one of the healthiest ones against the advance French- played many times by someone who understood the French better than most.
French defense is great defense. Tarrasch, Capablanca, Lasker, Botvinnik and Alekhnie played the French defense.
@pfren I just wanted to know where he got those games from so that I can buy more Simon WIlliams ' Merch! The way Korthcnoi plays it seems great too!
I believe that Williams may prefer this way of playing because it is more about attacking.It would be difficult for me to play in the way Kortchnoi did I felt like black was being Suffocated. I like the idea of attacking the pawn chain rather than dancing around it...
CNoahSay a écrit :
I believe that Williams may prefer this way of playing because it is more about attacking.It would be difficult for me to play in the way Kortchnoi did I felt like black was being Suffocated. I like the idea of attacking the pawn chain rather than dancing around it...
The classical ...Bd7/Nge7 setup is shown in Simon Williams' Killer French DvD. It's pretty usual.
As far as I remember the video, the ...f6/...Qc7 setup is used against the "too slow" (says GM Williams) a3 subvariation, which is indeed an interesting/intricate way of dealing with the position, but not a universal response against White choice of playing the Advance variation.
May 17, 2017
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CNoahSay a écrit :
Where did you get these games? I own attacking chess the French by Simon Williams and in the French advance he prefers Qc7 and f6
I got all the games from his video series "Why Simon loves the French," so there will be more to come. I recently bought a one-month premium membership, and though I'll certainly continue with my membership afterwards, I'm trying to document my favorite videos and video series from GM Williams because I find them to be the most comprehensive and interesting opening series, keeping my notes from the video for myself except when the PGN isn't annotated as in the Shabalov-Shirov game, which I annotated using my notes from Simon's video. In short, I own nothing and am just making more readily available the work he has done for us on the site in an organized manner with more focused member discussion. We already had IM pfren reply here (thank you sir)! It's also the first opening I'm trying to learn in depth as I'm taking chess seriously for the first time since I started playing club chess 12 years ago.
May 27, 2017
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#17
In the second game, 1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 e5, the Classical Steinitz Variation, I would give 4...Ne4 at ?! instead of a !? because, of the 96 master games in chess.com's database, there are 53% White Wins, 15% Draws, and 32% Black Wins. There are 6805 games where Black played 4...Nfd7 with 41%/30%/29% and I love it when Black plays 3...Nf6 because it let's me play the Advance Variation as White with an effective added tempo.