play the french 3rd edition
by John Watson EVERYMAN CHESS Gloucester Publishers pic www.everymanchess.com
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Contents
Bibliography
4
Introduction
5
1
Advance Variation: Introduction
7
2
Advance Variation: 5 . . . .i.d7
19
3
Advance Variation: 5 . . . Wb6
36
4
King's Indian Attack
55
5
Exchange Variation
70
6
Tarrasch Variation: Introduction and 3 . . . c5
81
7
Tarrasch Variation: 3 . . . .i.e7
1 01
8
Winawer Variation: Fourth Move Alternatives
121
9
Winawer Variation: Fifth Move Alternatives
1 54
10
Winawer Variation: Main Line with 7 'iVg4
175
11
Winawer Variation: Positional Lines
1 92
12
Winawer Variation: Black Plays 6 . . . 1Wc7
212
13
Classical Variation: 4 e5
227
14
Classical Variation: 4 .tg5 ( 4 . . . dxe4 5 tiJxe4 J.. e 7)
246
15
Odds and Ends
256
Index of Variations
264
Bibliography
Books Advance French: Alternatives to 4 c3, Jim Bickford (Syzygy 2002) Chess Informant 1-86, Chess Informant C1 8- 1 9 French Defence, Viktor Korchnoi (Chess Informant 1993) Die Franzoesische Verteidigung 3.Sc3, Hagen Tiemann (Reinhold Dreier 1 998) Four Gambits To Beat the French, Tim Harding (Chess Digest 1998) Franzoesisch Winawer: 7 Qg4 0-0, Stefan Kindermann & Ulrich DiIT (Chess gate 2001) French Classical, Byron Jacobs (Everyman Chess 2001) French Defence 3 Nd2, Lev Psakhis (Batsford 2003) French Defence Main Line Winawer, John Moles (B T Batsford 1975) French Defence, Alexander Kalinen (Russian Chess House 2002) French Defence, Neil McDonald, (ChessPublishing.com) French Defense 2, Nikolai Minev (Thinker's Press 1998) French Winawer, Neil McDonald (Everyman Chess 2000) New In Chess Magazine and Yearbook through 2003, New In Chess The French Tarrasch, John Emms (B T Batsford 1 998) Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings C, 4th Edition, Chess