Starting Out: The French

The French

Byron Jacobs

• Publisher: Popular Chess
• eBook ISBN:
  9781781940600
• Year: 2003

The French is one of Black's soundest defences to 1 e4 and is very popular at all levels of chess. Club players enjoy its super-solid structure, while at the top it's played by famous grandmasters such as Vishy Anand and the young Russian star Alexander Morozevich. With his first two moves Black obtains a substantial foothold in the centre, and a structure that is incredibly difficult to break down. In this user-friendly book, International Master Byron Jacobs revisits the basic principles behind the French Defence and all of its variations. Throughout the reader is helped along by a wealth of notes, tips, warnings and exercises. This book is ideal for the improving player.

Table of contents

• Bibliography
• Introduction
• 1 The Winawer with Qg4
• 2 The Winawer: Positional Main Lines
• 3 The Winawer: Other Lines
• 4 4 e5: Modern Variation
• 5 4 Bg5 dxe4: The Burn Variation
• 6 4 Bg5 Others: Classical and McCutcheon
• 7 The Tarrasch with 3 ... Nf6
• 8 The Tarrasch with 3 ... c5
• 9 The Tarrasch: Others
• 10 The Advance Variation
• 11 The Rubinstein Variation and Others
• Index of Complete Games
• Adams-Dreev, Wijk aan Zee 1996
• Adams-Epishin, Ter Apel 1992
• Adams-Levitt, Dublin zonal 1993
• Adams-Morozevich, Sarajevo 2000
• Adams-Rozentalis, Belgrade 1999
• Adams-Short, Sarajevo 1999
• Almasi-Korchnoi, European Cup Final, Budapest 1996
• Anand-Gurevich.M, Manila Interzonal 1990
• Anand-Khalifman, Linares 2000
• Anand-Timman, Dortmunder Schachtage 1999
• Berg.E-Potkin.V, World Under 18 Championship, Oropesa del Mar 1999
• Bezgodov-Sakaev, Moscow 1999
• Chandler-Gurevich.M, Leningrad 1987
• De Firmian-Kaidanov, US Championship 1999
• Degraeve-Gurevich.M, Belfort 1997
• Dvoirys-Dolmatov, USSR Championship, Odessa 1989
• Fischer-Larsen, Candidates match, Denver 1971
• Fischer-Rossolimo, US Championship 1965
• Geller-Karpov, USSR Championship, Moscow 1976
• Georgiev.Kir-Yusupov, Las Palmas 1993
• Grabarczyk-B.Socko, Polish Championship, Plock 2000
• Grischuk-Gulko, Esbjerg 2000
• Grischuk-Korchnoi, Biel 2001
• Gross-Blatny, Czech Championship 1998
• Gurevich.I-Bareev, Biel 1993
• Gurevich.M-Short, Manila Interzonal 1990
• Hansen.L-Antonsen, Farum 1993
• Hansen.S-Brynell, Gothenburg 1998
• Hector-Barsov, Vikings GM, York 1999
• Hodgson-Kupreichik, German Bundesliga 1998
• Hracek-Socko.M, MK Cafe Cup, Koszalin 1999
• Kalichkin-Gavrjushin, Russian Cup, Perm 1997
• Karpov-Kuzmin, Leningrad Interzonal 1973
• Kasparov-Anand, Reggio Emilia 1992
• Kasparov-Bareev, World Cup of Rapid Chess, Group A, Cannes 2001