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French Repertoire for Black, Simplified
Compiled by doug27
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Notes toward an aggressive opening repertoire for Black after 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5, including the Rubinstein / Burn line 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nxf6+ gxf6! or 5.Bg5 Be7 etc.

Bibliography

Simon Williams, Attacking Chess The French
https://www.amazon.com/Attacking-Ch... Great on the Euwe variation against the Advance line, and some coverage of the Katalymov - Maric line, and a complete aggressive repertoire.

Simon Williams, Why Simon Loves the French (Chess.com video) https://www.chess.com/video/player/...

Roman Dzindzichashvili, Roman's Lab Volume 90 - Burn - Morozevich Variation of the French Defense https://www.ichess.net/shop/new-rev... https://www.amazon.com/Romans-Lab-V...

Andrew Soltis, The Fighting French (Chess Digst 1993) https://kupdf.net/download/andrew-s...

Jeroen Bosch, "The Katalymov Variation." Secrets of Opening Surprises Volume 4 (New in Chess 2006): 49-57.

Advance, Euwe Variation -- activate the light-square B
Shabalov vs Shirov, 2005 
(C02) French, Advance, 30 moves, 0-1

Advance, Euwe Variation -- meeting a3 with f6
Grischuk vs Short, 2000 
(C02) French, Advance, 32 moves, 0-1

Advance, Euwe Variation - critical Knight sac at d4
Movsesian vs T Luther, 1998
(C02) French, Advance, 24 moves, 1/2-1/2

D Flynn vs J Burnett, 2013
(C02) French, Advance, 46 moves, 0-1

S Buchal vs T Luther, 1998
(C02) French, Advance, 28 moves, 0-1

Advance, Euwe Variation
M Petrov vs Topalov, 1991 
(C02) French, Advance, 50 moves, 0-1

Advance, Euwe Variation
Movsesian vs M Gurevich, 2000 
(C02) French, Advance, 35 moves, 0-1

Advance, Euwe Variation
S Conquest vs S Williams, 2010
(C02) French, Advance, 35 moves, 0-1

Rubinstein / Burn Nf6 gxf6
Boleslavsky vs A Ufimtsev, 1944 
(C10) French, 26 moves, 0-1

J Polgar vs Morozevich, 2000 
(C11) French, 36 moves, 0-1

L Steiner vs Tartakower, 1927 
(C10) French, 38 moves, 0-1

L Prokes vs Tartakower, 1929 
(C10) French, 62 moves, 0-1

Schiffers vs Rubinstein, 1903 
(C11) French, 21 moves, 0-1

H Steiner vs Tartakower, 1946
(C10) French, 41 moves, 1/2-1/2

J Kaplan vs Bronstein, 1975 
(C11) French, 26 moves, 0-1

Burn Variation
V Lyublinsky vs A Ufimtsev, 1945
(C10) French, 47 moves, 1-0

Najdorf vs C Guimard, 1945 
(C11) French, 32 moves, 0-1

D Villing vs N Pushkov, 2010 
(D00) Queen's Pawn Game, 45 moves, 0-1

W Kunze vs Rubinstein, 1905 
(C11) French, 37 moves, 0-1

E Canal vs Saemisch, 1929 
(C11) French, 31 moves, 1/2-1/2

P Leonhardt vs Swiderski, 1908
(C11) French, 43 moves, 0-1

M Salman Mahini vs Q Huang, 2008
(C11) French, 55 moves, 0-1

Gunsberg vs J Noa, 1885 
(C13) French, 51 moves, 0-1

L Prokes vs Rubinstein, 1926 
(C11) French, 25 moves, 0-1

G Thomas vs Tartakower, 1945 
(C10) French, 33 moves, 0-1

A Sokolov vs Andersson, 1988 
(C11) French, 17 moves, 1/2-1/2

Sax vs Andersson, 1988
(C11) French, 51 moves, 0-1

L Kokkinos vs D Donchev, 1977 
(C03) French, Tarrasch, 46 moves, 0-1

A Wohl vs D Barua, 2002
(C11) French, 36 moves, 0-1

V Liberzon vs Botvinnik, 1966
(C11) French, 33 moves, 1/2-1/2

de Firmian vs Andersson, 1989
(C11) French, 32 moves, 1/2-1/2

V Byvshev vs Boleslavsky, 1956 
(C11) French, 41 moves, 1-0

Katalymov - Maric Variation
Keres vs B Katalymov, 1965 
(C10) French, 53 moves, 1-0

L Urbanec vs S Paral, 1995
(C10) French, 23 moves, 1/2-1/2

M Keserovic vs Westerinen, 2006 
(C10) French, 32 moves, 1/2-1/2

A Esenov vs G Meier, 2005 
(C10) French, 48 moves, 0-1

B Perenyi vs L Kiss, 1988 
(C10) French, 54 moves, 0-1

E Schiller vs R Gruchacz, 1986
(C10) French, 41 moves, 1/2-1/2

Against the King's Indian Attack
Movsesian vs Delchev, 2006 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 26 moves, 0-1

T Goutali vs L Pan Zhang, 2008 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 30 moves, 0-1

Firouzja vs S Grover, 2015
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 41 moves, 0-1

watch out for Nxd5
A Visillac vs C Avgoustopoulos, 2018
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 34 moves, 0-1

J Prata vs M Luyks, 2001 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 17 moves, 0-1

L Vadasz vs I Nei, 1969
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 41 moves, 0-1

A Vasilyev vs D Scheglov, 2017
(C00) French Defense, 60 moves, 0-1

E Vinardi vs A Giaccio, 2001
(C00) French Defense, 36 moves, 0-1

Against the Wing Gambit and Related Lines
C Maier vs F Rambaldi, 2017
(C00) French Defense, 39 moves, 0-1

V Heinis vs M Antonsen, 2015 
(C00) French Defense, 22 moves, 0-1

A Skawinski vs M Sieciechowicz, 2010
(C00) French Defense, 35 moves, 0-1

G Gajewski vs W Schmidt, 2003 
(C00) French Defense, 29 moves, 0-1

V Kovar vs P Dobrowolski, 2001
(C00) French Defense, 34 moves, 0-1

W Kobese vs M Sebenik, 2018
(C00) French Defense, 19 moves, 0-1

M Merza vs N Maatman, 2011
(C00) French Defense, 40 moves, 0-1

C Perez Pietronave vs G Hernandez Guerrero, 1999
(B40) Sicilian, 21 moves, 0-1

Classical
Chigorin vs M Lewitt, 1906
(C13) French, 52 moves, 0-1

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