The French Offense ?....NOT really a defense @ all

Actually quite the opposite. Black has a 67% chance of not winning.

Now that sounds like a louzy defense to me !

Remember everyone. To defend should be much eazier than to attack. Common sense, right ?

Use the Sicilian as a perfect example.

The #'s show that it should be named the Fench Offense 'cuza its winning record at the highest levels.

Short was right, women dont understand chess.

OP, do you understand the concept of I punch first you defend.

....and the So-called FD was much more successful when Steinitz & Tarrasch & Systemsson played it.

But after awhile, white showed its hiss & claws and kinda wrecked it 'cuzit turned black's WSB into a tall pawn on the back rank that could never access a black square !

Geez, where is the unfollow button? Too much stupidity is frying my brain.

So then e4 followed by d4 regardless of black's response should be a French Offense...ergo the Danish Gambit just became a French opening.

I don't think the Danes are going to be happy to be conflated with the French.

Oh, you're 1a those ?........

You actually have one ?....hmmm.

this is the 2nd time I have noted Bishop_g5 in tears on LoLa's threads...... .......pretty funny actually 😁

Knowing you ?....since we go way back ?....sounds like you kinda see my point. Otherwise, I'm sure you woulda unmercilessly chastised me to near tears.

So, since you haven't ?....here's to you....

Technically, I may have started it, but I've never felt it would ever be my thread.

I am 110% Freedom of Speech and as far as I'm concerned ?....it's everyone's thread.

You are SO knowledgeable Lola.

you should blog.  I googled the nimzovitch game. hilarious.

You know how I feel, right GP ?

If one can learn by playing oneself ?....one should........

And I'm all for someone like me living a life the way I do 'cuz I'm haffdoozied. I'm not hurting anyone or breaking any laws....and I'm having fun at it, right ?

you seem fine to me.

its still not clear that our french offense has properly credited the danish and their gambit though...

yes, just say "yes"

for the love of goldilocks, Mr. Oliphant, say "yes"

"yes"

now what did I say yes too exactly?

sorry but sometimes it is hard to understand what you girls mean.

I personally plan to leave that one for tomorrow.

....and TY GP........

Lola's threads are unique as the way she understand chess. I find my self emotional to answer them because first its almost intriguing remarks related to chess and provocative on how chess has become so concrete game the days we are living. The second reason is that i miss this romantic era of chess where everything were under discovery and somehow  Lola make me disagree with something i never met but i know it was there.

For Lola Nimzowitz chess and approach never died, i am not sure for the rest of us. Yesterday was reading again Sadlers QGD book with annotations from Karpov and Kramnik on the lines and thinking how lucky they were discovering all this. We play on their own ideas but its difficult to create something new on it. Its all a data with good line to follow or bad. At least Lola has no such concerns neither Nimzowitz had.