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6 POTD French 3
Compiled by Sergio X Garcia

POTD French 3 by takchess

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Nosey...

Why was the nose tired?
Because it kept running.

My brother told me if I ate in the car and he smelled something rotten later, I would have to give him $30 of my $150 monthly allowance. He got his 20 per-scent.

He noticed a terrible smell in his house which smelled familiar. Then he reek-ognized it.

The pig could never mind its own business.
It was known as the nosey porker.

There was a serial killer without a nose that was caught the other day. He had committed scentless acts of violence.

I was ill and told my dad I had a runny nose.
He told me, "Tell it to walk instead."

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<Principles of Chess

01. Develop your pieces quickly.
02. Control the center.
03. Try to put your pieces on squares that give them maximum space.

04. Try to develop your knights towards the center.

05. A knight on the rim is dim.
06. Don't take unnecessary chances.
07. Play aggressive.
08. Calculate forced moves first.
09. Always ask yourself, "Can he put me in check or win a piece?"

10. Have a plan. Every move should have a purpose.

11. Assume your opponent's move is his best move.

12. Ask yourself, "why did he move there?" after each opponent move.

13. Play for the initiative and controlling the board.

14. If you must lose a piece, get something for it if you can.

15. When behind, exchange pawns. When ahead, exchange pieces.

16. If you are losing, don't give up fighting. Look for counterplay.

17. Don't play unsound moves unless you are losing badly.

18. Don't sacrifice a piece without good reason.

19. If you are in doubt of an opponent's sacrifice, accept it.

20. Attack with more that just one or two pieces.

21. Do not make careless pawn moves. They cannot move back.

22. Do not block in your bishops.
23. Bishops of opposite colors have the greatest chance of drawing.

24. Try not to move the same piece twice or more times in a row.

25. Exchange pieces if it helps your development.

26. Don't bring your queen out early.
27. Castle soon to protect your king and develop your rook.

28. Develop rooks to open files.
29. Put rooks behind passed pawns.
30. Study rook endgames. They are the most common and most complicated.

31. Don't let your king get caught in the center.

32. Don't castle if it brings your king into greater danger from attack.

33. After castling, keep a good pawn formation around your king.

34. If you only have one bishop, put your pawns on its opposite color.

35. Trade pawns pieces when ahead in material or when under attack.

36. If cramped, free your game by exchanging material.

37. If your opponent is cramped, don't let him get any freeing exchanges.

38. Study openings you are comfortable with.
39. Play over entire games, not just the opening.

40. Blitz chess is helpful in recognizing chess patterns. Play often.

41. Study annotated games and try to guess each move.

42. Stick with just a few openings with White, and a few openings with Black.

43. Record your games and go over them, especially the games you lost.

44. Show your games to higher rated opponents and get feedback from them.

45. Use chess computers and databases to help you study and play more.

46. Everyone blunders. The champions just blunder less often.

47. When it is not your move, look for tactics and combinations.

48. Try to double rooks or double rook and queen on open files.

49. Always ask yourself, "Does my next move overlook something simple?"

50. Don't make your own plans without the exclusion of the opponent's threats.

51. Watch out for captures by retreat of an opponent's piece.

52. Do not focus on one sector of the board. View thw whole board.

53. Write down your move first before making that move if it helps.

54. Try to solve chess puzzles with diagrams from books and magazines.

55. It is less likely that an opponent is prepared for off-beat openings.

56. Recognize transposition of moves from main-line play.

57. Watch your time and avoid time trouble.
58. Bishops are worth more than knights except when they are pinned in.

59. A knight works better with a bishop than another knight.

60. It is usually a good idea to trade down into a pawn up endgame.

61. Have confidence in your game.
62. Play in as many rated events as you can.
63. Try not to look at your opponent's rating until after the game.

64. Always play for a win.
(If a win is no longer possible, then play for a draw.)>

"The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory." ― Napoleon Bonaparte

29...? (Wednesday, April 24)
J N Baptista Valente vs M Percivaldi, 2017
(C00) French Defense, 30 moves, 0-1
19.? (Saturday, March 10)
M W Healey vs G J Moore, 2017
(C00) French Defense, 30 moves, 1-0
31.? (Friday, May 25)
M Antipov vs S Ivanov, 2017
(C00) French Defense, 35 moves, 1-0
14.? (Sunday, November 15)
M Ulybin vs Lautier, 1989
(C01) French, Exchange, 37 moves, 1-0
27...? (Monday, November 22)
J Waitzkin vs Shabalov, 1993
(C01) French, Exchange, 27 moves, 0-1
36.? (Wednesday, Fbruary 19)
I Nataf vs L Roos, 2001
(C01) French, Exchange, 37 moves, 1-0
26.? (Thursday, August 31)
Chigorin vs Alapin, 1880
(C01) French, Exchange, 33 moves, 1-0
21.? (Tuesday, February 11)
R Rey Ardid vs J Sanz Aguado, 1943
(C01) French, Exchange, 23 moves, 1-0
19...? (Friday, January 17)
Adams vs Epishin, 1992
(C02) French, Advance, 26 moves, 0-1
44 ...? (Thursday, April 5)
Y Afek vs Psakhis, 1990
(C02) French, Advance, 49 moves, 0-1
19.? (Wednesday, April 22)
Tal vs I Nei, 1958
(C02) French, Advance, 21 moves, 1-0
24...? (Tuesday, October 5)
A Hadzimanolis vs Lputian, 2005
(C02) French, Advance, 25 moves, 0-1
40.? (Monday, January 14)
G O'Toole vs R Haria, 2009
(C02) French, Advance, 41 moves, 1-0
28.? (Tuesday, June 6)
Areshchenko vs A Rustemov, 2014
(C02) French, Advance, 29 moves, 1-0
21.? (Sunday, September 4)
A Bodnaruk vs A Kashlinskaya, 2015
(C02) French, Advance, 31 moves, 1-0
38...? (Wednesday, August 23)
Shirov vs Nakamura, 2016
(C02) French, Advance, 38 moves, 0-1
18.? (Sunday, July 18)
Rozentalis vs P Nikolic, 1994
(C03) French, Tarrasch, 31 moves, 1-0
19.? (Monday, September 12)
E Keogh vs W Lewis, 1966
(C03) French, Tarrasch, 19 moves, 1-0
21.? (Thursday, July 6)
P Jowett vs J McBride, 2007
(C03) French, Tarrasch, 25 moves, 1-0
25.? (Friiday, February 14)
V Malaniuk vs Short, 1984
(C04) French, Tarrasch, Guimard Main line, 31 moves, 1-0
23.? (Friday, January 5)
Ivanchuk vs Dreev, 1987
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 32 moves, 1-0
30.? (Thursday, December 23)
D Gormally vs C Morrison, 2001
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 35 moves, 1-0
11.? (Thursday, August 3)
J Foltys vs Mohyla, 1940
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 17 moves, 1-0
32 ...? (Monday, June 1)
M Mrva vs Movsesian, 1998
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 33 moves, 0-1
38.? (Tuesday, February 25)
K Darga vs R Von Saldern, 1951
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 39 moves, 1-0
33... ? (Tuesday, January 24)
Kholmov vs W Pietzsch, 1965
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 33 moves, 0-1
31.? (Tuesday, June 22)
F Holzke vs M Tan, 2006
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 32 moves, 1-0
17...? (Friday, September 21)
W Bialas vs Uhlmann, 1951
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 23 moves, 0-1
19...? (Saturday, June 12)
M Tan vs M Ulybin, 2008
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 26 moves, 0-1
23.? (Friday, September 1)
A Blees vs F Vallejo Pons, 1997
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 28 moves, 1-0
32.? (Monday, October 5)
Andersson vs A Lahti, 1969
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 33 moves, 1-0
31. ? (Monday, July 23)
L de La Fuente vs A Nesterov, 2017
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 32 moves, 1-0
39...? (Thursday, February 9)
D Sahovic vs Korchnoi, 1979
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 46 moves, 0-1
39.? (Wednesday, February 8)
Kasparov vs Bareev, 2001
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 41 moves, 1-0
21.? (Monday, July 10)
I Pleci vs L Endzelins, 1939
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 21 moves, 1-0
41...? (Tuesday, June 12)
M Efroimski vs T Munkhchuluun, 2008
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 56 moves, 0-1
21...? (Thursday, January 4)
D Belenkaya vs A Kashlinskaya, 2016
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 30 moves, 0-1
28....? (Tuesday, September 11)
Zherebukh vs V Akobian, 2017
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 28 moves, 0-1
16...? (Sunday, September 23)
Panov vs Bondarevsky, 1937
(C09) French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line, 30 moves, 0-1
23.? (Thursday, November 24)
J Emms vs K Arkell, 1999
(C10) French, 27 moves, 1-0
34.? (Thursday, April 25)
Vasiukov vs S Makarichev, 1972
(C10) French, 41 moves, 1-0
27...? (Wednesday, June 17)
C Crouch vs J Ambroz, 1991
(C10) French, 28 moves, 0-1
18.? (Saturday, February 22)
K Spraggett vs R Pogorelov, 2006
(C10) French, 32 moves, 1-0
20....? (Sunday, December 31)
Boleslavsky vs A Ufimtsev, 1944
(C10) French, 26 moves, 0-1
37.? (Wednesday, February 20)
S Grover vs A Mellema, 2008
(C10) French, 38 moves, 1-0
20.? (Sunday, December 24)
E Najer vs A Timofeev, 2016
(C10) French, 29 moves, 1-0
33...? (Monday, March 6)
K P Surya vs K Rathnakaran, 2015
(C10) French, 33 moves, 0-1
20.? (Wednesday, August 16)
de Firmian vs Huebner, 1995
(C11) French, 22 moves, 1-0
16...? (Friday, March 1)
Topalov vs Bareev, 1994
(C11) French, 23 moves, 0-1
51.? (Friday, June 12)
F Vallejo Pons vs Knaak, 2003
(C11) French, 59 moves, 1-0
20.? (Sunday, August 25)
Anand vs Bareev, 2004
(C11) French, 48 moves, 1-0
31...? (Tuesday, December 8)
Velimirovic vs G Dizdar, 1990
(C11) French, 32 moves, 0-1
19.? (Thursday, Juy 9)
K Richter vs L Abramavicius, 1930
(C11) French, 23 moves, 1-0
32 ? (Wednesday, December 12)
H Berliner vs S E Almgren, 1946
(C11) French, 35 moves, 1-0
26.? (Thursday, January 23)
Saric vs M Gurevich, 2007
(C11) French, 28 moves, 1-0
39.? (Wednesday, April 19)
M Apicella vs I Farago, 2007
(C11) French, 41 moves, 1-0
19.? (Friday, December 14)
Kasparov vs A Vilaisarn, 2008
(C11) French, 24 moves, 1-0
17.? (Saturday, February 25)
Bacrot vs I Lysyj, 2009
(C11) French, 34 moves, 1-0
20.? (Sunday, December 15)
F Corrales Jimenez vs Granda Zuniga, 2009
(C11) French, 37 moves, 1-0
28...? (Friday, July 17)
S Nitin vs Robson, 2011
(C11) French, 31 moves, 0-1
26...? (Saturday, November 26)
Robson vs Y Vovk, 2015
(C11) French, 37 moves, 0-1
43.? (Monday, July 9)
J Hector vs A Gupta, 2016
(C11) French, 43 moves, 1-0
32...? (Saturday, June 30)
Y Hou vs W Ju, 2017
(C11) French, 36 moves, 0-1
14.? (Sunday, September 16)
A Muzychuk vs Z Tan, 2017
(C11) French, 32 moves, 1-0
33.? (Friday, November 15)
Chandler vs M Gurevich, 1987
(C11) French, 37 moves, 1-0
16.? (Thursday, October 15)
J van Foreest vs D Gavrilescu, 2018
(C11) French, 22 moves, 1-0
32.? (Wednesday, September 25)
Euwe vs U Cawi, 1950
(C12) French, McCutcheon, 32 moves, 1-0
28.? (Tuesday, June 9)
G Guseinov vs J Andreasen, 2012
(C12) French, McCutcheon, 30 moves, 1-0
14.? (Saturday, Decebmer 28)
Nisipeanu vs A Florean, 1995
(C13) French, 19 moves, 1-0
34....? (Monday, June 22)
E Pettersson vs Stahlberg, 1935
(C13) French, 35 moves, 0-1
29 ? (Thursday, February 20)
T Wedberg vs Korchnoi, 1988
(C14) French, Classical, 35 moves, 1-0
19.? (Sunday, March 18)
So vs M Prusikin, 2006
(C14) French, Classical, 30 moves, 1-0
28...? (Monday, January 18; Saturday, February 20)
A Jerez Perez vs A Romero Holmes, 2001
(C15) French, Winawer, 28 moves, 0-1
20.? (Tuesday, November 28)
N Ninov vs C Adrian, 2016
(C15) French, Winawer, 30 moves, 1-0
20.? (Friday, November 12)
A Karlovich vs N Hryhorenko, 2001
(C15) French, Winawer, 26 moves, 1-0
30.? (Tuesday, June 29)
E Najer vs D Shchukin, 2000
(C16) French, Winawer, 31 moves, 1-0
18.? (Sunday, December 12)
Shirov vs Plaskett, 1992
(C18) French, Winawer, 28 moves, 1-0
51.? (Wednesday, November 8)
Short vs Vaganian, 1989
(C18) French, Winawer, 51 moves, 1-0
36.? (Thursday, January 16)
V Gashimov vs M Bartel, 2003
(C18) French, Winawer, 38 moves, 1-0
23.? (Sunday, January 21)
M Romm vs S Tatai, 1973
(C18) French, Winawer, 36 moves, 1-0
42...? (Friday, March 5)
Smirin vs M Ulybin, 1988
(C18) French, Winawer, 48 moves, 0-1
36.? (Tuesday, June 13)
L Dominguez Perez vs A Yusupov, 2006
(C18) French, Winawer, 36 moves, 1-0
34...? (Tuesday, April 17)
Caruana vs T Petrik, 2006
(C18) French, Winawer, 43 moves, 0-1
15.? (Monday, November 25)
N Padevsky vs I Asmundsson, 1957
(C18) French, Winawer, 16 moves, 1-0
21.? (Wednesday, February 22)
Kasimdzhanov vs Ponomariov, 2007
(C18) French, Winawer, 23 moves, 1-0
25.? (Wednesday, September 1)
Vitiugov vs S Dyachkov, 2008
(C18) French, Winawer, 26 moves, 1-0
28 ? (Thursday, August 30)
Bacrot vs B Socko, 2008
(C18) French, Winawer, 31 moves, 1-0
36.? (Tuesday, April 24)
M Bartel vs A Belezky, 2008
(C18) French, Winawer, 46 moves, 1-0
25.? (Saturday, August 12)
Ganguly vs P Tregubov, 2016
(C18) French, Winawer, 31 moves, 1-0
27...? (Thursday, October 5)
J D Carlin vs N Pert, 2011
(C18) French, Winawer, 29 moves, 0-1
31....? (Monday, September 14)
Adianto vs A Yusupov, 1983
(C19) French, Winawer, Advance, 31 moves, 0-1
25 ...? (Monday, July 8)
A Franck vs Portisch, 1958
(C19) French, Winawer, Advance, 26 moves, 0-1
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