Beat the French Defense with 3.Nc3

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Beat the French Defense with 3.Nc3

Post by John Upham » Sat Jun 19, 2021 12:35 pm

Colin Lyne has reviewed

Beat the French Defense with 3.Nc3

by GM Pentala Harikrishna

from Thinker's Publishing



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Beat the French Defense with 3.Nc3, Pentala Harikrishna, Thinker’s Publishing, 2021, ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9492510976
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Re: Beat the French Defense with 3.Nc3

Post by Jacques Parry » Mon Jun 21, 2021 8:53 pm

The reviewer gives quite a lot of information about the author's choices against sidelines, the Rubinstein and the Classical, but then concludes "Finally(!) Hari leads us to the Winawer Variation but here he shocks the white player with his suggestion. To find out what this is you will need to buy the book!" Surprising reticence on the part of a reviewer - particularly since even the blurb (quoted in the review) discloses that the recommendation is 4.exd5.

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Re: Beat the French Defense with 3.Nc3

Post by Nick Burrows » Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:16 pm

Jacques Parry wrote:
Mon Jun 21, 2021 8:53 pm
Surprising reticence on the part of a reviewer - particularly since even the blurb (quoted in the review) discloses that the recommendation is 4.exd5.
I think this was also his recommendation in his "French Toast" Chessable course

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Re: Beat the French Defense with 3.Nc3

Post by JustinHorton » Tue Jun 22, 2021 6:59 am

He kicks off with 3…c5 which is a good move in a Tarrasch (3.Nd2) context but a clear mistake against 3.Nc3 as White trivially loses a pawn
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Re: Beat the French Defense with 3.Nc3

Post by Paul Cooksey » Tue Jun 22, 2021 8:49 am

No?

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Re: Beat the French Defense with 3.Nc3

Post by JustinHorton » Tue Jun 22, 2021 9:08 am

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Re: Beat the French Defense with 3.Nc3

Post by Paul Cooksey » Tue Jun 22, 2021 9:09 am

To which clause?

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Re: Beat the French Defense with 3.Nc3

Post by NickFaulks » Tue Jun 22, 2021 9:11 am

If White loses a pawn, isn't that a point in favour of Black's move?
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Re: Beat the French Defense with 3.Nc3

Post by Paul Cooksey » Tue Jun 22, 2021 9:13 am

oh I see, the sentence is poorly constructed

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Re: Beat the French Defense with 3.Nc3

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Tue Jun 22, 2021 2:36 pm

Yes, a simple case of getting your whites and blacks mixed up - we've all done it.
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