French Defense: Marshall Variation

And after Qxc5? This is not winning for white unlike Qb5+ (read above posts) after Bxc5.

Oh, I played AGAINST it 12 times? That makes more sense. If I played it 6  times, those were most likely bullet games.

I played a slow OTB game with it yesterday as white 90 min 30 second bonus last night (it was a tournement finals, rated)

I did not know about the Qe2 idea when I played it. I will post it here (not annotated),  I plan to post all games from that tournement soon in a blog with annotations.

Need specific lines to be able to comment properly, move numbers help. In the line I posted above with Negi comment on 3..c5? then Qxc5 ??!! is impossible move (the Bb5 is still on the board)

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 c5 4. exd5 exd5 5. dxc5 d4 6. Bb5+ Nc6 7. Ne4 Bxc5 8. Nxc5 Qa5+

is what I meant. I could have been refering to Qe2 lines but I think this is what I meant.

Well that line 7.Ne4? will lose to 7..Qa5+

Oops, yeah what robert said, I should not try to do analysis blindfold. I was probably talking about Qe2 lines, sorry, and the fork ideas were Qb5 if he takes on c5

Yeah, I checked. All 1 0 games or 3 0 games.

Thank you very much! Very helpful. I will take his word, It was the conclusion I came to after my post-game analysis, the computer agrees, and a strong GM agrees. Google told me his rating:

3 0 games I must have been white. Or it was 12 midnight.

Looks pretty good to me.

I do like the Qe2 lines better, however.

For black playing the French defense, it is best he or she play standard lines; you have better chance for equality.

First person interest in something else, exploratory field of potential, with facts.

This is course was Marshall's "Gold Coin" game:

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1094915