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...defense that is. all i know is the advance variation and i don't like it. any recs?

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Originally posted by Darth Sponge
...defense that is. all i know is the advance variation and i don't like it. any recs?
DOUH!!! I thought you were talking about french fries...


mmmm...friessssss....

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Visit: http://www.eudesign.com/chessops/

All the sound variations are listed there.
As for the french fries visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_fries

--SEVES

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to get out of the complicated messes that Black is hoping for you can try the Exchange or perhaps the very solid Tarrasch Variation: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 ! then there is no threat from a black bishop pinning the knight

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Well Tarrasch System on French is not a panacea ... In the ACC statitics of this system was not good +2=2-6 !!!!

Look this game played by E. Lawson :

[Event "American Continental"]
[Site "Buenos Aires ARG"]
[Date "2005.08.09"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Lawson,E"]
[Black "Rodriguez,And URU"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2367"]
[BlackElo "2523"]
[EventDate "2005.08.06"]
[ECO "C06"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. c3 c5 6. Bd3 Nc6 7. Ne2 cxd4 8.
cxd4 f6 9. exf6 Nxf6 10. O-O Bd6 11. Nf3 Qc7 12. Nc3 a6 13. Bg5 O-O 14. Bh4
g6 15. Bg3 Bxg3 16. hxg3 Qg7 17. Qd2 Ng4 18. Bc2 Bd7 19. Na4 Rxf3 20. gxf3
Nxd4 21. Kg2 Nh2 22. Rh1 Nhxf3 23. Qd1 Rf8 24. Bd3 Qf6 25. Nc3 Nh4+ 26.
Rxh4 Qxf2+ 27. Kh1 Qxg3 28. Qg4 Qxd3 29. Qxd4 Qf3+ 30. Kh2 Qf2+ 31. Qxf2
Rxf2+ 32. Kg3 Rxb2 33. Rf1 Rc2 34. Rf3 Bc6 35. Kf4 d4 36. Ne4 Rxa2 37. Ke5
Re2 38. Kxd4 Kg7 39. Rhf4 h5 40. Re3 e5+ 0-1

So sad, so sad ...

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French was not a perfect system too. There are some weakness and disvatages on this role of play. There is a very bad balck bishop (white squares) - weakness on g-column, some weakness to play king´s castle. But anyway its a good good game. You need to know how to play french and how to play against french defense.

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Originally posted by SeVeS
Visit: http://www.eudesign.com/chessops/

All the sound variations are listed there.
As for the french fries visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_fries

--SEVES
This site has one big problem: use of enlish notation.
The rest of the world went algebraic long ago.
Some of the earliest books I studied were the two volume set
by Euwe, dynamic and static positions, but they were a bitch
to decipher because of the english notation system, it went very
slow.
I wish that series would be redone in algebraic, it would be a much
faster read.

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I'm bilingual. I learned the English system when i was a kid and when everybody switched over to algebraic, i went over to that. So now i know both. Sometimes i get a little confused when i see Kb7, the way, i guess, when someone really bilingual runs across the same word with two different meanings in the two languages. Incidentally, why do they call it the ALGABRAIC system. What does it have to do with Algebra? It should be called Alpha-numeric, right?