French Defense 3 c4!?

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ThrillerFan
lolurspammed wrote:

Evaluation is completely equal in the advance and winawer. The poisoned pawn is good for white imo but black has the Qa5-Qa4 variation which is hard to crack. He also has the simple solid 0-0 after Qg4 in the mainline.

Your statement is useless and wrong.

So I am supposed to trust someone over 500 rating points below me (Your 1601 standard vs my 2146 OTB) that just makes blanket statements about equality and doesn't back it up with physical evidence.  The previous post has physical evidence to back up what is said.

Try doing that next time so you don't sound like some beginner that thinks he knows everything and instead doesn't know squat!

ThrillerFan

And by the way, to back up post 42 and counter post 41:

3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Qa5?! 7.Bd2! Qa4 scores White 57.1% across 746 games (so a weaker result than 6...Ne7)

3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Ne7 7.Qg4 O-O is fine, Black is under no obligation to go Poisoned Pawn - I simply said 7.Qg4 is best.  That said, this still scores 56.75% for White across 1479 games!

Therefore, your argument for equality is bogus!  Get that number down to 52% or lower - then speak about equality.  Your lines, scoring 57.1 and 56.75 percent for White, respectively, are worse than the main responses, which still score over 55% for White.

1...c5 and 1...e5 are stronger than the French.

lolurspammed

Interestingly enough I think someone like Var Akobian would strongly disagree with ThrillerFan about the French. Korchnoi as well, for an older name. Good luck proving an advantage against a good French player out of the opening. I mean maybe you could but then again you play the advance.....

jhan17
pfren wrote:

Too bad that statistics do not play chess- else ThrillerFan would be world champion.

Personally (as white) I have more trouble proving an advantage against 6..Qa5 7. Bd2 Qa4 than against 6...Ne7. Actually I think that Black equalizes in all variations in the Portisch- Hook (6...Qa5), although in some lines he has to do some deep work.

Haha too bad Thrillerfan is dumb

ThrillerFan
jhan17 wrote:
pfren wrote:

Too bad that statistics do not play chess- else ThrillerFan would be world champion.

Personally (as white) I have more trouble proving an advantage against 6..Qa5 7. Bd2 Qa4 than against 6...Ne7. Actually I think that Black equalizes in all variations in the Portisch- Hook (6...Qa5), although in some lines he has to do some deep work.

Haha too bad Thrillerfan is dumb

Too bad J. Hancock's mother was too incapable of treating him proper communication.

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