Is the French opening any good?

I think this is what I will adopt when I am playing black.

Yeah, e6 is a decent response to just about any first move by white.
Does anyone know of a opening move by white that could NOT be met
with e6? (without getting into trouble early?)

The French Defense is fantastic! Really stops attacks and puts alot of
pressure on white early on! I have a horrid record against the French!
Many top players here play the French ( Zum, Paul, etc...)

And they find ways to beat my butt with it...although I am looking into
some new lines

Dave

I generally try to avoid it. Have lost many games - so now I can
expect a plethera of french defenses now. But one of my better
games - 103222 was frenchish.
1. e4 e6
2. Nf3 d5
3. exd exd
4. d4
And I got into a really interesting attack later on.
David

many top players playing french here have been beaten as well. sin.

Maybe this should be in the general forum, but...
Is there any way to search the games on RHP by openings? I don't
think there is, but wouldn't it be nice to be able to enter a series of
opening moves and be presented with a list of games in which those
moves were played?

I agree but the work-load is piling up on Chris and Russ i.e. new
colors, tourney options, etc. that we should wait a while to ask them!
Fantastic idea though! I second that!

I have seen this function at Chessworld. It was pretty cool

Originally posted by !~TONY~!
I agree but the work-load is piling up on Chris and Russ i.e. new
colors, tourney options, etc. that we should wait a while to ask them!
Fantastic idea though! I second that!

Originally posted by villa68
is this option possible on the site

cos it sounds real cool idea

I have to post this game. On the theme of crushing the french...

Why you should never play the French against a swashbuckler:

Game 514997

In St. Nick's defense, I just happen to have caught him in a subtle-ish trap (though I'm sure its known to, and refuted by, theory, neither of us are really french players) and he's dominating me in the other game we're playing at the moment. An english game.

Which, I guess, makes me a German. Beating the French and losing to the English :-)

(although I think I may have to concede my swashbuckler title, I just hung a bishop in a fairly basic king's gambit variation... for shame, for shame...)

Is the French Defense any good? World chess championship games are the strongest level of play. At this level Alekhine, Botvinnik, Petrosian, and Spassky have played the French Defense. At this level of play any opening that produces so a good opening.

I recall an annotation to a Kasparov-Short game that started 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2, which Kasp annotated as "3.Nc3 is more accurate, but Nd2 is good enough for the win."

Of course it may have had as much to do with his opponent as the opening 😀

Originally posted by Osse
I recall an annotation to a Kasparov-Short game that started 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2, which Kasp annotated as "3.Nc3 is more accurate, but Nd2 is good enough for the win."

Of course it may have had as much to do with his opponent as the opening 😀