Flexible French.pdf

Contents

Foreword ................................ 7

Part One -The Black Queen's Musketeers •••..••.••••.• 9

Advance Variation - 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5

Chapter 1 - Looking for Satisfaction . . . 11

Chapter 2 - Labyrinths of the Old System 27

Part wo -Weapons and Dogmas ••••.•.••.••..•.•. 59

Tarrasch Variation -1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Jd2

Chapter 3 - Beyond Tarrasch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Chapter 4 - Exotic Deviations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 0

Part Three -French Magic •••••..•.••.•..•..•.• 149

assical System -1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Jc3 Jf6

Chapter 5 - Morozevich's Resources

Chapter 6 - A Legendary Pin

Chapter 7 - Russian Roulette . . . .

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Part Four - Behind the Barricades. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Wmawer Vaiaion -1.4 6 2.d4 5 3.M4

Chapter 8 - My System in the Winawer. . . . . . .

Chapter 9 - Black Queen Blues: Winawer Variation

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Part Five -Seven Samurai Swords

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Chapter 10 - Kortchnoi's Wedge..

Chapter 11- King's Indian Attack.

Chapter 12 - The Kung Fu Fight. .

Chapter 13 - Weathering the Storm .

Chapter 14 - The Anti-Winawer.

Chapter 15 - The Semi-Winawer

Chapter 16 - The Old Winawer .

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New In Chess Code System .

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Index of Variations.

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Index of Players . .

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A Brief Biography of the AuthorBihliography . . . . . . . . . . 279

Foreword

Original Variations for your Repertoire

Strategic xplanations and Surprise Weapons for Dynamic Chess Players

The French Defence is a gem in any chess player's opening repertoire. The main

difference in comparison to other great openings is the display of knowledge and

concepts that are required here, instead of a constant memorisation and repetition

of long, fo rced, 'theoretical ' lines. The middlegame and , with it, the real battle be

gins at a very early stage.

This 'Flexible French ' book is an attempt to mix various aspects : my general expe

rience in this opening, new concepts and analysis of several creative lines. Its pur

pose is to ofer a combative repertoire to black players , and also to offer white

players some sharp ideas .

With 1...e7 -e6, Black builds a fo rtress with a clo sed centre, so the main roads to

success are those leading to a game where White 's extra tempo is not so important.

This defence is also fu ll of strategic as well as tactical resources , and according to

many masters , its lines are among the most complicated in chess. There are also

several fo rgotten systems that are still fu ll of possibilities , sharp and exotic lines,

original ideas and much more.

The current state of openin g theory

During the past few years - the computer days - many books by vanguard authors

have seen the light , with ambitious names like : 'Beating the Spanish, the Sicilian,

the French' and many others. Some authors even churn out books of this type up to

3-5 times a year !

Please note that the Grand Masters , such as Botvinnik, Petrosian and also the best

modern players , work on the study of their systems much more slowly, but with

great depth - learning and practicing them year after year. The evaluations of their

ideas hardly change, at least not as abruptly as in these new books.

Also, I think that a new time has arrived fo r chess books on opening theor. In

stead of copying thousands of games that are played each day and presenting the

analysis by the engines , it is much more efective - and more positive - to compose

a book with articles according to a diferent concept: with space fo r background

information, an instructive selection of the material and conclusions drawn fr om

this material .

The reader of he Flexible French will ind it the easiest and the most interesting to

learn the main plans with the fo llOwing structure in each Part:

* Historic origin of each variation

* Main ideas , resources, advices

* Analysis ofthe most interesting lines through model games

* Illustrative games

* Statistics, summaries and conclusions.

I hope that my previous book he Fabulous Budapest Gambit and the present work

can serve as good examples of this new method of writing opening books.

of course, many questions will always remain open, fo r practical players as well

as theoreticians.

Good luck with the study and the practice of a genuine opening - The French De

fen ce !

Greetings to you all!

Grandmaster Viktor Mosalenko, Barcelona 2008

My sincerest gratitude goes out to my oId fr iend and student Duis Delgado fo r his

help with translating my texts fr om Spanish into English.

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