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Game fully annotated for beginners and intermediate to understand
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Jul 14, 2013
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#43
The tool is in the diagram. You can use that to go over the game, view the comments, the annotations, and the variations to it.
The French isn't so great against higher rated opponents when the Poisoned Pawn Variation is involved. That's a bit misleading.
advanced french gives black no problems. In fact, seeing the advanced french is every french player's dream. Black gets so much counterplay against d4 that white is usually fighting to draw
UIUCBoss wrote:
advanced french gives black no problems. In fact, seeing the advanced french is every french player's dream. Black gets so much counterplay against d4 that white is usually fighting to draw
Agreed. I don't get the popularity of the opening.
Jul 17, 2013
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#47
@Yereslov, if you cannot afford to lose as black in a given game, in a given round, or whatever the circumstances may be, the French is my go to weapon of choice as Black, and I absolutely will play the Classical, or the McCutcheon when White plays the Bg5. Another very beloved weapon which I will play as Black is the Winawer Postisch-Hook variation, but that's when I am looking for a more obscure, and yet very positional and strategic twist to the Winawer.
Why do I think this way? In my experience, when a player out-ranks you in rating by, let's say, 100+ points, the player as White will often look for more risks in order to beat you. The French defense is the kind of defense where Black's position is so solid and reliable, that the more risks incurred by White will usually be in Black's favor due to the nature of the position.
In my experience, to win as White, in the French or typical French structures, and in the majority of cases, outside of the winawer poison pawn, your win must be a strategic play/win more than anything else.
Those are my two cents.
Cheers.
bladezii wrote:
@Yereslov, if you cannot afford to lose as black in a given game, in a given round, or whatever the circumstances may be, the French is my go to weapon of choice as Black, and I absolutely will play the Classical, or the McCutcheon when White plays the Bg5. Another very beloved weapon which I will play as Black is the Winawer Postisch-Hook variation, but that's when I am looking for a more obscure, and yet very positional and strategic twist to the Winawer.
Why do I think this way? In my experience, when a player out-ranks you in rating by, let's say, 100+ points, the player as White will often look for more risks in order to beat you. The French defense is the kind of defense where Black's position is so solid and reliable, that the more risks incurred by White will usually be in Black's favor due to the nature of the position.
In my experience, to win as White, in the French or typical French structures, and in the majority of cases, outside of the winawer poison pawn, your win must be a strategic play/win more than anything else.
Those are my two cents.
Cheers.
Yes, that makes sense until this is played:
Now any lower rated opponent is going to have trouble.
By the way, have you got the book by Watson yet? His book on the French has great reviews.
All five stars on Amazon.
Jul 17, 2013
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#50
@Yereslov,
I say again, "if you cannot afford to lose as black in a given game, in a given round, or whatever the circumstances may be, the French is my go to weapon of choice as Black, and I absolutely will play the Classical, or the McCutcheon when White plays the Bg5. Another very beloved weapon which I will play as Black is the Winawer Postisch-Hook variation, but that's when I am looking for a more obscure, and yet very positional and strategic twist to the Winawer.
So the classical variation is not the winawer, and if the winawer is entered, then I will play the Portisch-Hook variation of it, which is a strategic and positional variation of the Winawer.
What do you mean by "classical variation."
Jul 18, 2013
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#52
The classical variation is reached when Black, instead of playing 3... Bb5, plays 3... Nf6 after 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 ; then when 3.... Nf6 is played, we have the classical variation.
Yereslov wrote:
Yes, that makes sense until this is played:
Now any lower rated opponent is going to have trouble.
1. Black is fine after 7...0-0 (8.Bh6 ? Ng6).
2. Though I know close to nothing of the Winawer, I am pretty sure 7...Ne7 is not the main move.
Thanks for that game, bladezii! My feedback to you is that I like this format much better than chess videos. With the annotations, I can comfortably click at my pace and do not need to hear a voice. Maybe something to consider for your future work.
Please see http://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-analysis/read-this-before-you-post it says that you should very rarely post wins
Jul 25, 2013
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#57
@definitelyNotGM,
Those are the views of anaxa, the poster who placed that. I disagree with his views or I do not think his post encompasses all cases.
He may have his opinion, that is for sure. But those are not the rules, nor guidelines.
He is expressing his opinion on the subject.
The important thing about a game is that it benefits or is instructive.
Jul 25, 2013
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#59
I did cover some active possibilities for white in this line of the advanced variation.
@bladezii On a mac computer you don't need to buy Chessbase. You can download the free software Scid vs. PC http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/ it's a database, and analysis technique and you can include a chess engine inside it (personally I use Toga II).