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, […]
Scandinavian with 2.e5
In a recent comment Kevin wrote:
“… does anyone have any exciting lines against the Scandinavian (e4 d5)? In order to cut out a lot of theory, I was thinking of simply playing e5 in response to black’s d5. Is that sound? “
As far as I know it is actually playable, but not regarded as a […]
The London System Opening
Soon I’ll start to look at my game with M.Harris (I played white) from the Nottingham Chess Congress of April 2008. In that game I played London System opening. I thought before I write about the game, as short preamble on this opening - and why I like to play it - would be of […]
The Leningrad Dutch - White Plays An Early b2-b4, Revisited
Oh it’s so easy when you know the solution isn’t it?
Following on from my recent post The Leningrad Dutch - Playing Against an Unusual System (white plays an early b2-b4), it is surprising how simple things can become for black in the Leningrad when white gives you the chance to play …e5 with some effect!
From […]
The Leningrad Dutch - Playing Against an Unusual System (white plays an early b2-b4)
This is the first look into the game I listed in the article An Interesting Defeat in the Dutch Defence - that is, the first of several looks into this game at various stages. I’m very unimpressed with my play in this game – indeed, it’s one of those games where I look at some […]
Ruminations on the Dutch Defence
When white plays 1.d2-d4, black replies 1… f7-f5, and we have the Dutch Defence!
I guess there are easier openings for a player of my strength to play, but just after I started my adult chess career back in the early 1990s, I took it up for essentially two reasons:
1) There is no way for white […]