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I see more and more players playing the French defence these days and its doing my balls , I like to play pretty aggressive but if they know the advance variant of the Barry gambit after they play a6 it seems like I'm boned already. Apart from the exchange anyone recommend any other pretty aggressive lines with nc3 or nd2 or shall I shoot myself and play 1d4 lol
May 19, 2017
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#2
U can try Bd3 line both in Winawer and MacCutcheon. In an other French thread today, I recommended also Steinitz variation:
Possibly helpful:
A Simple Chess Opening Repertoire for White by Sam Collins
http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/A-Simple-Chess-Opening-Repertoire-for-White-76p3916.htm
http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/A_Simple_Chess_Opening_Repertoire_for_White.pdf
My First Chess Opening Repertoire for White by Vincent Moret
https://www.newinchess.com/Shop/Images/Pdfs/9033.pdf
1.e4 vs. The French, Caro-Kann & Philidor By Parimarjan Negi
http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/1-e4-vs-The-French-Caro-Kann-Philidor-76p3875.htm
http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/GMRep-1e4-vol1-excerpt.pdf
How to Beat the French Defence by Andreas Tzermiadianos (2008)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627050257/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen115.pdf
A Chess Opening Repertoire for Blitz and Rapid by Evgeny and Vladimir Sveshnikov
https://www.newinchess.com/Shop/Images/Pdfs/9020.pdf
Coming soon:
Playing 1.e4 - Sicilian & French by John Shaw
B3 system interesting, might bang that out in a game , thanks , think time to learn nc3 lines seems best nd2 i notice just runs into c5. YAWN 
May 20, 2017
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#5
2. Qe2 if you're looking to steer the game differently (Nakamura has played it).
2. g3 is another try (Carlsen has played it).
2. d3, going into a King's Indian Attack (Fischer played it).
aide
"I see more and more players playing the French defence these days and its doing my balls"
Je vois de plus en plus de joueurs jouer la défense française ces jours-ci et ça fait mes boules
I'm curious about whether there's a language where "doing my balls" is a common idiom. Bonus points if that language happens to be French.
Maybe the best is to play the exchange and go for opposite side castling. If you post your Bishop on d3 and black goes Kingside you will have good attacking chances. Don't trade off your light squared Bishop as this is your best weapon. Often in these lines black will go Queenside 0-0-0 and it leads to some unbalanced and dynamic chess. I'm a french player and these lines always make me feel a little uncomfortable.
May 22, 2017
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#11
jengaias wrote:
There is no aggressive line in the main moves.Black has a million options and can choose the type of position that he wants to play and you have to be preapred against everything.
The best solution might be to play something unorthodox with good chances for complications and that annoys French defense players.
2.b3 is relatively unknown , annoys French defense players and it can be a real mess.
This line has perhaps the most miniatures for white mainly because it's used by higher rated players to get lower rated players out of theory.
I picked up this line after watching a YouTube video on it. I use to lose every french game. Now I have a positive winning record against it. I play c4 and Nf3 now for first moves, but this is an active line you can play. Very tactical and some strategy needed.
aidez-moi
@lovebecause
c4 leaves White with an isolated queen pawn, it's not everybody's cup of tea. Also after ...dxc4 at the right moment White needs to recapture with his Bishop which a) costs him a tempo and b) takes the Bishop off it's optimum diagonal, at least temporarily. This allows black to 0-0 without the fear of this Bishop pointing at his King. I'm only speaking asa French player myself. The line that I fear the most is the exchange variation with Bd3 and opposite side castling. Opposite side castling will always lead to imbalanced and dynamic positions.
May 23, 2017
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#14
boxcandy wrote:
The line that I fear the most is the exchange variation with Bd3 and opposite side castling. Opposite side castling will always lead to imbalanced and dynamic positions.
I guess everyone's different.
As a former French Defense player, the Exchange with opposite-side castling was my favorite variation to go into.
@BlunderLots you should play the Sicilian then!
boxcandy a écrit :
@lovebecause
c4 leaves White with an isolated queen pawn, it's not everybody's cup of tea. Also after ...dxc4 at the right moment White needs to recapture with his Bishop which a) costs him a tempo and b) takes the Bishop off it's optimum diagonal, at least temporarily. This allows black to 0-0 without the fear of this Bishop pointing at his King. I'm only speaking asa French player myself. The line that I fear the most is the exchange variation with Bd3 and opposite side castling. Opposite side castling will always lead to imbalanced and dynamic positions.
I don't really understand your problem with Bd3.
U don't want opposite castles? Well, why castling queen side? It is black who is supposed to chose long castle...
U can play in different ways...
May 23, 2017
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#17
boxcandy wrote:
@lovebecause
c4 leaves White with an isolated queen pawn, it's not everybody's cup of tea. Also after ...dxc4 at the right moment White needs to recapture with his Bishop which a) costs him a tempo and b) takes the Bishop off it's optimum diagonal, at least temporarily. This allows black to 0-0 without the fear of this Bishop pointing at his King. I'm only speaking asa French player myself. The line that I fear the most is the exchange variation with Bd3 and opposite side castling. Opposite side castling will always lead to imbalanced and dynamic positions.
If you hate opposite side castling, then delay castling. Not like the exchange is a fearsome line. It's a joke! As one that plays the French, Caro-Kann, and Petroff, one of my favorite lines to face is the Exchange with an early Nf3, which can also come via 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.d3?! Nf6 6.d4 d5, which I face more often than you want to imagine, and it's the same position as 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5?! exd5 4.Nf3 Nf6. My favorite line after this: 5.Bd3 Bd6 6.c3 c6 7.O-O O-O 8.Bg5 Bg4 9.Nbd2 Nbd7 10.Qc2 Qc7 11.Rfe1 Rfe8 12.h3 Bh5 (Symmetry ends here - I will not push h6, and now I can contest his battery, but he can't contest mine. g6 is covered by both pawns, g3 is only covered once!
Had this in the 2014 US Open, Round 5 in Orlando against a 2150 player via the Petroff Variety, so it was 14.h3 instead of 12.h3, and I put him away! You can find it in the 9/1/2014 download from The Week in Chess archive. US Open, Round 5, search for McCartney (9 games there, the round 5 game is this line).
@poucin
yes, obviously there are millions of different ways to play it. But in certain lines just blindly castling kingside can land black in trouble
May 23, 2017
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#19
boxcandy wrote:
@poucin
yes, obviously there are millions of different ways to play it. But in certain lines just blindly castling kingside can land black in trouble
I would never play Black's 4th move. Against 4.Bd3, Black should play 4...Bd6 or 4...c5, depending on style of play. About the only time I might think about playing Nc6 in the French is if White already committed to c4. Clearly not immediately after 4.c4, but generally speaking. The Knight bites on granite after c3 by White, and not like you have an e-pawn to strike the center with ...e5, so what's the use in ...Nc6? None if you ask me!