Finally someone not just spewing out lines! This is amazing, thank you so much.

great video. I've recently come back to it since I don't know much about this variation in the French. thanks a lot.

Great introduction for a complicated opening! Thanks!

Great explanation. Thank you so much.

I just checkmated someone in 23 moves as black with the 11. f4 Bd7 variation today! Thanks for the video!

Thank you for the video. In the ne7 qg4 c5 qxg7 variation you showed stockfish evaluates it as roughly equal not lost as you say.

You mentioned a PGN file attached, is there a link to that?

wow, this video is amazing, very instructive! i'm going to try the Winawer instead of ...Nf6 now. Although the Morozevich line with ...Nf6 Bg5 dxe4 Nxe4 Be7 Bxf6 gxf6!? is an awesome discovery and potential surprise weapon, too (3:04 in the video).

Thank you. What software are you using ?

b6 followed by Ba6, swapping off your worst minor piece for your opponent's best minor piece. A nice idea!

***** In some of the lines towards the end of the video, White's Queen sits on the g1-a7 diagonal, meaning that Black cannot play O-O-O without dropping a7. Given that this is Black's goal, how does he achieve it?

Looking at your position from 5:11, white to play Bb4 pinning the knight to the king and then taken the next move. Black can either trade a R for white's B or lose the knight on c3. Please tell me what I am missing?

@bushisamonkey

7 жыл бұрын

I guess you mean Bg5 to pin the black knight at f6..black can defend by playing Rg6 driving away the white queen and protecting the knight at the same time :)

Where is PGN file for Winawer?

15:45 instead of Qd3 why can't white just take the c-pawn with the knight

@Silenzio1980

3 жыл бұрын

Cause then Ne5

@Kasebett

Жыл бұрын

Not at all because of Ne5. Black can play Nxf3 instead of Qd3, those are just separate variations. Both are covered in the video

This entire explanation omits one glaring move for white - 3 e5. Skipping Ne3. This blows the entire scenario out of the water on the third move and is happening 60-70% of the time I try this and puts black in a more difficult situation.

@tuatarian6591

3 жыл бұрын

That's an entirely different variation of the french, the advance french. Go after the d pawn and you'll be good

Volume is too low in this video

***** In some of the lines towards the end of the video, White's Queen sits on the g1-a7 diagonal, meaning that Black cannot play O-O-O without dropping a7. Given that this is Black's goal, how does he achieve it?