Studying Master Games of the French Defense

Hello! I have actively been trying to improve my French defense and wanted to find master games that demonstrated it best. Google didn't help as much as I wanted it to. What are your methods for finding relevant master games?

There is the chess.com explorer.  I think you could find good example games in there.

Just found "Master Games" under the "More" Tab. Thank you!

You're welcome.  One Arkansan to another.

You want to get a software called chessbase and install the big database. When there do opening reports and you will find the master's of the french defense and their games

GM Ben Finegold said that Yury Shulman is the master of the French Defense.

https://www.chessgames.com/player/yury_shulman

bro tbh, just look at all my games loll, I literally play the french like 98 to 100% of the time as black but also you could just message me.

Korchnoi playing the French
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?yearcomp=exactly&year=&playercomp=black&pid=15866&player=&pid2=&player2=&movescomp=exactly&moves=&opening=C00-C19&eco=&result= 

good but chessbase is powerful too.

Chessbase is quite powerful, but it's also pretty expensive, and may be overkill for less experienced players

fake it till you make it I am kidding, You are correct but chessbase is chessbase, come on....

Fabiano Caruana is a great player to look at. In fact, there have been some articles on Lichess about him and the French Defense which you can find part 1 here. I find them helpful since I'm trying to learn the Classical French from White's perspective and from Black since no one plays it at my level

Thanks so much guys! Really helpful info here.

I have these in ChessBase Format https://sahovski.com/Informants-c25038039

thumbs up friend

Of course, as someone pointed out, ChessBase itself is quite an investment. Getting Informants in print and CD as I do adds $180 annually.

chessgames.com and this site's master games database are great choices for the OP.

     Botvinnik played the French a lot, even in his world championship matches; mostly a few different Winwer lines. And the Karpov-Korchnoi matches explored the Tarrasch variation extensively. These games were of course analyzed and commented on by a lot of GMs at the time so it's probably possible to unearth a lot of different opinions about the French in old books and magazines.

     As with all old games, you need an up-to-date computer "book" to see which lines have been improved or refuted, but varied commentaries on important games have explanations of the players' ideas and the purpose behind the moves rather than just variations.

interesting.

Uhlmann's book on the French, allegedly, is a must. I recently bought the expanded edition. Haven't made time to read it yet.