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Colin Lyne has reviewed

Beat the French Defense with 3.Nc3

by GM Pentala Harikrishna

from Thinker's Publishing

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.

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

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

No

No?

No

To which clause?

If White loses a pawn, isn't that a point in favour of Black's move?

oh I see, the sentence is poorly constructed

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