We examine a popular defense to white’s e4 pawn opening and discuss the important things you need to know when playing the French Defense. This in depth analysis should share some light on how to play the French Defense correctly. This is Part 1 so make sure to watch Part 2 for the second part of this video.
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Is there a way to cripple the French Defense?
What do you reccomend in case white take d5 pawn with his pawn?
Some people play that also
What do you do when they do Queen on second move?
French defence? Does the name mean we have to surrender (resign) the game quite quickly?
Who is here in 2021?
The video is still relevant even though it's 11years old
Dude's simping over f7.
5 minutes in: so then white plays d4
Good job explaining Kevin, making it easy enough to understand.
Bruh it’s not that hard for French chess. Just decapitate the king.
awesome video
I’m still learning the basics of chess and I’m really confused. What happens if white takes pawn at D4 (6:04), I know that black would take d4 but is there a better way to react against that?
what happens if whites second move is c2-c4?
Trying to learn to beat my friend at chess, wish me luck
Hey man. Very nice video and amazing opening
What should I do if my opponent moves his pawn to e5 on his second move. Is this a mistake and how can I get advantage from this?
08:53
You mention white wanting to defend the pawn but is this needed?
If they take you can just take back with the queen
I started playing chess on the amateur level and I almost always use the Van’t Kruijs opening. It’s so uncommon that players are usually unfamiliar, and (at least against amateurs) you can probe with the queen early and see if the opponent gives you anything.
Edit: the competition I’ve faced has been relatively weak. In a professional setting the Sicilian defense is normal, but on the amateur level my opponents were almost always thrown off with my opening
Awesome vid bro
French is just bad ig. What's the answer to 2.E5?
I prefer the Pirc defense, it's wildly unpopular so most people don't know a counter to it and lots of the time I win with it. It's also a very solid defense which imo is much harder to break through
i did this to my french teacher
I actually like the way it is displayed from white prespective
Nice video!
Thanks for the video mate, appreciate it
Yo love your channel straight to the point and very informative been playing the past you and watch your stuff on the reg
Love your tutorials. Been popping into your channel for years, I like it how you just get right into and don’t waste time. Great work, love your channel brother
So is there potential to fianchetto on the kingside during this and make it some weird variation?
hi
Get to the point dude.
“defense against white” but you are playing with white not with black lmao
Why won't people play this at the top tournaments?
I like ur videos very much and I watch all ur videos…but I Guess u won't reply here coz it's a 12yr video😩
but if white does play Knight F3 what for black?
This is not it. You show not the moves.
Very helpful !!!
The “Scholar’s Mate” attackers hate the French Defense.
When explaining for black it would be better to shift the board
Your the Best you’re the only reason i’m so interested in chess and your videos are amazing i’ve never seen such good chess videos
Ok
queen to d4 is bad ?
Thanks
Thanks
One of the problems is the white player immediately takes your pawn on d5 as soon as you move it out. Let's say you are a mediocre player like me, learning the French defense against the computer. The white opponent immediately attacks you keeping you from setting up your basic formation. I see the logic of what you are saying but a skilled aggressive white opponent won't let you set up your French leaving you with a total mess of tit for tat melee. I have to have a fool proof system as black to set up a good defensive SYSTEM in a formation at the start I can use routinely against a good aggressive white opponent. Otherwise, the game goes from bad to worse. Think about a system like the Spanish tercios or the Greek phalanx to fight a battle with a SYSTEM. I am not clever but methodical and deliberate.
I was a career soldier for 20 years and voracious reader of military history.. Chess is almost nothing like warfare at all. Mechanical well thought out methodical logistical systems help win ground battles. The side that can make the best mincing machine of combined arms ( mechanized infantry, armor, artillery, tactical air power) to grind up the enemy forces wearing down his reserves usually wins the battle. Amateurs talk about tactics while professionals talk about logistics. Chess is more about memorizing whole games and being clever. I don't see any real relationships between warfare and chess. I am good at war games with complex rules but chess is totally different from war games.
lol this is my go to defense on black i had no clue it was the french
French defense is better used not attacking the center. I can't say anything more on this matter.
So let’s say the opponent doesn’t move in any of the predicted movements that would allow the French defense to work optimally, so you still use the same moves or do I need to learn other openings so I can be prepared for what they show me?
I recently started playing chess. Thanks man
great tutorial only started around 2 weeks ago and am currently at 350elo, trying to push 500 semi soon, great tutorial
Great vid. Will try in my grind to 1000 Elo in blitz
not useful😕