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Busted french defense

#1
I never played the "stupid "french defense ,,(Yes I believe it's stupid even strong GMs playing it I know )I just hate it , simply because it gives white a hell of activity if black doesn't know what do with his pieces ,especially his stupid light square bishop who sometimes remains on his c8 most of the game watching his king being raped ,,,don't believe me ,check this game !
http://en.lichess.org/tournament/8JZd4TCz
#3
>:|
I really like french defense
I can challenge U in this opening
It has many active lines!
#5
HAHAHAHHAHA :D
me too :)
but french also has many nice and tactical lines
#7
At the moment, I finished my over-studying of Zukertort and, for the Autumn's, I am training the French against the great "e4", because, c5 (sicilian) is not giving me good results against strong players.

In general, French defence is a quite solid opening who follows the same idea of Caro-Kann of solidity but, with differents ideas. The main idea -obviously with blacks- is counterattacking the queenside. If your opponent is a strong player, he will ensure the kingside and will start trying to "shake" you with extreme greed. I don't recommend you play it in blitz games, but, indeed in "classical" time rates or even "standard", that, as said @azadi, it gives you strong tactical lines.

#9
French is a good defence with a lot of different possible lines. I think of it as a system rather than anything else, because it can develop so well.

In the game you mention, your opponent made a couple of blunders and you made some quite surprising moves, achieving a checkmate with 0 blunders, 0 mistakes and 0 inaccuracies and only an average 8 cp loss over someone rated over 200 points higher than you.

You must be one hell of a player, that's all I can say. It doesn't mean that the French Defence is bad though :)
#10
of course my opponent blundered, that's why I won, but as I said, anyone who play the french defense must be very aware of the tactical lines (both white and black ,esp. the Korchnoi sacrifice of the d pawn as in my game ) and after Qg4 ,the idea of Ng5 and Bh6 (if black play g6) to pressure the f7 pawn is clear( I know this line very well and played it many many times ), sometimes even I sacrifice my b2 and a2 pawn to control of the open files and drive the black Q further ,, but as LM Dr-Zaitzev said, because this was a blitz game (and clearly black was not aware of the line I played ) I got this , in classical time control , things are different .at the end it's a matter of taste ,simply I don't like french and believe me I NEVER played it ! in contrary I can play against it ,again simply because I HATE it !
thanks and appreciate your comments :)

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