The Best French Defence Games

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kingsknighttwitch

Hello all,

I am currently studying the French Defence and am working on a Lichess study (and accompanying series of Youtube videos) where I learn French Defence opening theory by analyzing games played between strong players.

As I am still learning, I am interested in any games that you all might know that have great theoretical value or where the players played very well (or had some interesting ideas).

So, I ask you all: what are your favourite games that feature the French Defence? And also, who are your favourite players who use it on a regular basis? Personally I really like the way that Shirov plays the French.

If you are interested in my study, it is located here:

https://lichess.org/study/YMUeboT9

If you are interested in the series of Youtube videos, they can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjAuDrWl4uxp5B0c3yV9UPQorqLmus2my

ThrillerFan

Best Game:  Fischer - Uhlmann, Buenos Aires, 1960

 

Players I have often studied the French games of:

 

Uhlmann

Korchnoi

Short

Bareev 

Glek

Nimzowitsch

Botvinnik

EKAFC

I highly recommend going through this article series by FischyVIshy about Caruana against the French Defense here. I found it very instructive and very well-annotated. There is about four articles about it and will help you a lot