Opening Repertoire:

The French Defence

Cyrus Lakdawala

• Publisher: Popular Chess
• eBook ISBN:
  9781781945087
• Year: 2019

The French Defence provides a good choice for players who want to create a dynamic, unbalanced situation out of the opening but baulk at the level of study required to master the ferociously complex Sicilian Defence. The French is one of Black's soundest defences to 1 e4 and is very popular at all levels. White often advances with the space-gaining e4-e5 which, in principle, will generate a small advantage. However, when this structure arises there are no clear points to attack in the black camp and Black has ready-made plans in the form of ...c7-c5 and ...f7-f6, moves that seek to undermine the white centre. In this book, renowned author Cyrus Lakdawala creates a repertoire for Black and navigates through the main lines of the French, providing the reader with well-researched, fresh and innovative analysis. Each annotated game has valuable lessons on how to play the opening, and contains instructive commentary on typical middle-game plans. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. * Presents a complete French Defence repertoire for Black. * Thorough explanations of typical pawn structures and piece manoeuvres. * Utilizes an ideal approach to chess study.

Table of contents

• About the Authors
• Bibliography
• Introduction
• 1 The Anti-Winawers
• 2 The Main Line Winawer: 4 e5
• 3 The Tarrasch
• 4 The Advance Variation
• 5 The King’s Indian Attack and 2 Qe2
• 6 The Exchange Variation
• 7 The Two Knights Variation
• 8 Second Move Alternatives
• Index of Complete Games
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