The Resilient French - A Closer Look at the 10…Bg5 Variation
Thanks to Alan Griffiths for posting his comment to my The Resilient French - Just After the Opening article. To recap, Alan said:
… I don’t like 10 … Bg5 11 Bxg5 Nxg5 - the white queen goes to one of the black squares (e1, d2 and c1 all look good) and, if you play Nf7, […]
The Resilient French - Just After the Opening
This article continues the discussion of the game I began looking at in The Resilience of the French Defence.
After the moves: 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 a6? 4.a3 5.Be3 Nf6 6.e5 Ne4 7.Bd3 f5 8.Nge2 Be7 9.0-0 0-0 10.f3 we have the position in the first diagram.
In this position I thought I had no choice […]
The Resilient French - Another Quick Look at the Opening
This is the third article in the series analysing the game presented in The Resilience of the French Defence. I took a brief look at the opening in The Resilient French - A Quick Look at the Opening, where I was critical of my early opening play, and I suggested an improvement based on transposing […]
The Resilient French - A Quick Look at the Opening
This is the first article looking at the game I listed in The Resilience of the French Defence. In this article I would like to take a look at the opening. The game began like this:
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 a6 4.a3 Nc6
In the previous article I was critical of 4…Nc6. According to my research, […]
The Resilience of the French Defence
The time has come to take a look at another game. This one comes from the Notts Congress of April 2008, and was played in the first round.
The game is highly flawed, but remains one of my favourites of the 2007/08 chess season. It is flawed because of my totally botched opening play, and also […]
The Wrong Strategy - Rounding Off (At Least for the Time Being)
Over the last few articles I’ve been looking at this position (see first diagram):
Sorry I’ve been quiet for the last week or so. I have spent some time looking at this position - trying to pick my way through the thickets of variations resulting from black going through with the plan of …b5-b4.
There are […]
The Wrong Strategy, the First Wrong Turn, and a (Slightly) More Robust Defence for White!
After I posted The Wrong Strategy and The First Wrong Turn, Alan Griffiths commented
"I think you should consider white exchanging on b4 instead of allowing you to capture on b3. E.g. 17.cxb4"
I’d pretty much ignored this line because I thought white would just be letting black into his position. However, when I actually looked I […]