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Tarfumes.com - Flexible French: Strategic Explanations & Surprise Weapons for Dynamic Players
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Manufacturer: New in Chess
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 794
EAN: 9789056912451
ISBN: 9056912453
Label: New in Chess
Manufacturer: New in Chess
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 279
Publication Date: 2008-08-13
Publisher: New in Chess
Studio: New in Chess
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Summary The French Defense is one of the most popular chess openings, on all levels. Many of its lines, however, are over-played, over-explored, and therefore overloaded with book theory. Flexible French is a refreshing break from the well-trodden paths, and provides a selection of unusual but very playable ideas. Grandmaster Moskalenko is well known as a champion of anti-dogmatic chess, and has selected some radical but practical variations for both Black and White.
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Summary: Great book for the Francophile
Comment: Having purchased and thoroughly enjoyed the author's earlier book on the Budapest Gambit I eagerly anticipated Moskalenko's work on the French. This book has the same engaging literary style with the addition of many games from the author's own practice (some as current as 2008). This is not a repetoire book along the lines of "see variation A4b1" but Moskalenko does a very good job of offering more than one option against all the major White choices (Advance, Tarrasch, Classical) plus coverage of many minor systems (KIA, Wing Gambit, Exchange, Anti-Winawer, etc.). Please note, you will not find the main line Winawer Poisoned Pawn (tG, imho). Instead there is material on 4...b6, 4...c5 5 a3 Bxc3+ 6 bc Qa5 and 6...Qc7. While written from the perspective of a long time devotee of the French the author also includes suggestions and improvements for White, plenty of White victories in illustrative games, and an interesting attacking system for White in the Classical/Two Knights. I was pleased to note that the bibliography includes recent works by Sveshnikov, Watson, and Psakhis.
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