Miedema: The Modernized French Defense - Volume 2: Against the Tarrasch CBH Insider perspective from Kramnik's longtime

Insider perspective from Kramnik's longtime manager and biographer Carsten Hensel

this entire book is "wonderfully instructive

Nc3 Nf6 w/o d4

was recently created for chess teachers at the DYSS

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Miedema: The Modernized French Defense - Volume 2: Against the Tarrasch CBH Insider perspective from Kramnik's longtimeHere we are, together on this page, both interested in the French Defence with 3. Nc3 Bb4. Before telling you what you can learn from this opening, let me tell you a little story about my journey in the French. I started playing the French after reading John Watson's Play the French, which improved my play a lot. I learned that the French is a positional yet concrete opening, and many of my young opponents couldn't grasp its subtleties. Moreover, many