First Steps:
eBook - ePub

First Steps:

The French

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eBook - ePub

First Steps:

The French

About this book

The French Defense is a highly reliable response to 1 e4 which is popular at all levels. With the first two moves, Black creates a solid foundation in the center and seeks to put pressure on White's position in the early middlegame. In this book, International Master Cyrus Lakdawala explains the basic ideas in the French and examines the important variations. The key ideas are emphasized with notes, tips and warnings and the reader's understanding is tested with frequent exercises. This book tells you everything you need to know in order to take your first steps with the French Defense. First Steps is a new opening series and is ideal for improving players who want simple and straightforward explanations. First Steps emphasizes: * the basic principles * the basic strategies * the key tricks and traps First Steps books are based around carefully selected instructive games which demonstrate exactly what both sides are trying to achieve. There is enough theory to enable the improving player to get to grips with the opening without feeling overwhelmed. If you want to take up a new opening, First Steps is the ideal place to start.

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Information

Publisher
Popular Chess
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781781943458

Table of contents

  1. About the Author
  2. Bibliography
  3. Introduction
  4. 1 The Main Line Winawer
  5. 2 The Winawer: Fourth Move Alternatives
  6. 3 The Classical Variation
  7. 4 The Tarrasch Variation
  8. 5 The Advance Variation
  9. 6 The Exchange Variation
  10. 7 Other Lines
  11. Index of Complete Games
  12. Aeria.R-Lakdawala.C, San Diego (rapid) 2005
  13. Baker.B-Lakdawala.C, San Diego (rapid) 2007
  14. Baker.B-Lakdawala.C, San Diego (rapid) 2011
  15. Baker.B-Lakdawala.C, San Diego (rapid) 2015
  16. Balares.J-Lakdawala.C, San Diego (rapid) 2007
  17. Bastijanic.D-Dizdar.G, Pula 1993
  18. Bologan.V-Vitiugov.N, Russian Team Championship 2010
  19. Braga.F-Korchnoi.V, Sao Paulo 1979
  20. Caruana.F-Nakamura.H, Saint Louis (rapid) 2015
  21. Grischuk.A-Vitiugov.N, Russian Championship, Moscow 2010
  22. Gunnarsson.J-Riazantsev.A, European Cup, Rogaska Slatina 2011
  23. Hector.J-So.W, Malmo 2011
  24. Iyer.V-Lakdawala.C, San Diego (rapid) 2014
  25. Karjakin.S-Vallejo Pons.F, Bilbao 2012
  26. Karpov.A-Korchnoi.V, 12th matchgame, Moscow 1974
  27. Kasparov.G-Ivanchuk.V, Horgen 1995
  28. Kasparov.G-Lakdawala.C, Internet (blitz) 1998
  29. Kasparov.G-Ponomariov.R, Linares 2002
  30. Khachian.M-Lakdawala.C, San Diego (rapid) 2009
  31. Kishnevsky.D-Lakdawala.C, San Diego (rapid) 2009
  32. Landa.K-Naiditsch.A, French Team Championship 2013
  33. Morozevich.A-Lputian.S, Wijk aan Zee 2000
  34. Navara.D-Harshkou.M, European Rapid Championship, Minsk 2015
  35. Nimzowitsch.A-Hakansson.A, 1st matchgame, Kristianstad 1922
  36. Papaioannou.I-Gurevich.M, Corinth 1998
  37. Peters.J-Lakdawala.C, Southern California State Championship, Los Angeles 2001
  38. Rabiega.R-Vitiugov.N, German League 2009
  39. Sevillano.E-Lakdawala.C, San Diego (rapid) 2006
  40. Shirov.A-Morozevich.A, Frankfurt (rapid) 2000