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MichaeltheGreat
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Apolyton Grand Executioner
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mooning the house that Ruth built.
Oct 1999
time: 21:29
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quote:
Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
You're getting way ahead of me, MtG. I'm worse at Go than I am at chess. 
BTW, been studying the French defense at http://www.eudesign.com/chessops/. Looks pretty effective, especially if you knew the theory behind it. |
They don't have much on the Tarrasch (3 Nd2 ... ) variation, which is much more effective for white than 3 Nc3, playing into the Winawer. (Classical, Paulsen and McCutcheon are all inferior for black than the Winawer, which is the brawling version for black).
The thing with the Tarrasch is that it's rather counterintuitive for white players who are generally looking for an open game after 1 e4. They forget that the entire job of the QN after black opts for the French is to protect the e4 pawn, and it can do that better on d2 where it can't be pinned and doesn't hang up the c-d-e pawn chain.
When I played white against the French, I didn't like the Tarrasch for the same reason, so I played a little known, and less analyzed move that Spassky used to rip the gonads of Wolfgang Uhlmann (the greatest modern era practitioner of the French, Uhlmann used it exclusively as black against 1 e4).
The normal Winawer goes:
1. e4 e6; 2. d4 d5; 3. Nc3 Bb4; 4. e5 c5; 5 a3 Bc3; 6 bc ...
There's another version that goes:
1. e4 e6; 2. d4 d5; 3. Nc3 Bb4; 4. e5 Ne7; 5 a3 Bc3; 6 bc ...
Spassky reasoned that the only reason for the 5 a3 move was to force the bishop-knight exchange, but it blocked the white QB from possible play on the a3-f8 diagonal, and was a wasted move. Spassky's experiment, which I played a lot, was to ignore the b4 bishop, and take advantage of the weakened dark squares on black's K-side (due to the white pawns at d4 and e5 and displacement of the black KB) to develop aggressively with 5 Qg4 instead of 5 a3.
In Spassky's game against Uhlmann in the 1976 Manila interzonals (playoffs to get into the world championship challenger matches), when this move was first tried, Uhlmann played the second variation where the KN moves before the c pawn.
AFAIK, although my games never counted for FIDE purposes since I never was FIDE rated, I was the first player to use 5 Qg4 against the main line Winawer, and it was very effective for it's power to take black players (who in the area generally knew I was a hardcore advocate of the French) out of their expected game.
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