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French Defence: How to NOT play as black

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LydiaBlonde

I like to play french defence both as black as like as white. This game is from French Defence Open Tournament.

 
 

Another games in french I submited before:

 A sharp draw in Frehch Defence (Gonnosuke vs LydiaBlonde

French, advance variation - news for white 13-16th movement!

 


Mygame5377

U where 300 rating points over him that is why it was bad for black.

shuttlechess92

whoa, but I don't play the french =)

great game!

sahmuald

hmm...  it seems like (s)he played it well to start off with.  The move that confused Me was the knight being played to h6...  To me it felt like they were in with a chance until that happened...  But I'm not very good... Thoughts?

KillaBeez

This is how not to play the French.  This was the first round in a scholastic tournament.  I played a real patzer.

KillaBeez

I was White

xMenace

This is how you slay the French Wink

bigmac30
446919 wrote:

This is how you annoy white players who seriosly need a win in order to not be last place or be in first place


 tricky opening rubinstein french good to play if u know what u r doing

KillaBeez

Not quite.  Black is slightly worse in the Rubinstein due to White's queenside pawn majority.  While Black can still hold the draw most likely, it never quite equalizes.

bigmac30
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bigmac30
KillaBeez wrote:

Not quite.  Black is slightly worse in the Rubinstein due to White's queenside pawn majority.  While Black can still hold the draw most likely, it never quite equalizes.


 what ever the technicallitys it is a very dificult to get anying from this opening

bigmac30

ps black usally is queens parn down in french except stange lines like 2 d6 i saw earlier

bigmac30

in the origanal game be7 followed by f6 better try

Nytik
KillaBeez wrote:

Not quite.  Black is slightly worse in the Rubinstein due to White's queenside pawn majority.  While Black can still hold the draw most likely, it never quite equalizes.


I'd say getting a 0.5-0.5 result is usually considered equalising. Cool

KillaBeez

Yes, but White has all the endgame chances because of the queenside majority.