Sunday, October 01, 2006

The Interesting French Exchange Index

TIFE XV
Doing it by accident.

TIFE XIV
ChessPub - a font of TIFE wisdom

TIFE XIII
You don't have to have the White pieces to play the French exchange.

TIFE XII
A rose by any other name ...? What actually is a French Exchange?

TIFE XI
A short draw to win the Coulsdon u-130 in 2000.

TIFE X
Williams, Black, sacs a pawn at the Staunton Memorial.

TIFE IX
Kasparov plays the White side.

TIFE VIII
Moskalenko's Kung Fu.

TIFE VII
Nosher beats a strong GM from the White side (sort of).

TIFE VI
An early ... Qh4.

TIFE V
Two wins from Uhlmann.

TIFE IV
A brace of wins from Korchnoi with Black.

TIFE III
Tal-Korchnoi proving you don't have to castle long to get a strong attack.

TIFE II
Nimzo playing ... O-O-O then chopping his opponent to bits.

TIFE
I'll admit it - the French Exchange can be dull.



OTHER POSTS OF INTEREST

Gurevich - Nosher
Manilla 1990

Ftard
Having a good position won't help you if you're an idiot.

Clock Handling
on the Black side of a French Exchange

Sultan Khan - Abrahams
Ramsgate 1929

1 comment:

revechess said...

Interesting article on the French exchange.I have played a tournament in Poland and I played no less than 5 French defence games i had big problems so I decided to go over games where Black castles kingside I have annotated a few games and I have come up with a few interesting plans now I thought worth sharing