Win with the French Defence! A Versatile Chess System for Black | 1500-1700

[@sorryforbatenglish]

0:04 Exchange, Monte-Carlo Variation 10:30 Advance, Milner-Barry Gambit 18:15 Tarrasch, Open, Chistyakov 25:17 Knight variation 34:08 Exchange 44:55 Exchange

[@whyeumadbro]

I’ve fully committed to the French defence and Im having so much fun. Feels good to have a sure fire defence against fianchetto openings for white

[@MislavIvkovic-sx8vd]

Dont play this is bad opening but you can try with black

[@Orwaha]

“There it is! There’s that 1400 he was dying to come out.” 🤣🤣🤣

[@moodmaker2796]

Much love from Germany. You got me to 1540 through Habits and the French :> 300+ points in the last 90 days in Rapid.

[@KrisRoxas]

I've been hard stuck at 1100 for a while, but now with the French and Stonewall, I'm at about 80-90% WR and climbing through 1300 smoothly. These speed runs are game changers

[@martys6967]

Seeing 1400s and 1700s blunder queens give me hope that maybe I don't suck quite as badly as I thought I did.

[@wsemenske]

Not quite AS badly, you're just worse!

[@jimkyle8008]

I often play the French against my opponent's 1. e4 and I know some of the basic ideas and pawn breaks available to Black, but I've always struggled a bit when White plays the exchange variation 3. exd5 exd5 because I don't know what to do next. I've never even considered playing a move like ... Bd6. However, after seeing Aman play it in this video, allied with moves like Ne7 and f6, I might just give it a go.

[@JohnWilliamShatner]

Bd6 works in both the setup you're talking about, and also the normal Nf6, c6, 0-0 style variations.

[@frackisback]

good vibes and good music is the right way to summarize this one

[@cameron_777]

I picked up the French because it's easy to blitz moves in speed chess, learning a lot from this series.

[@cjlcorndog7271]

Loving this series. Thanks for the videos

[@vidalguzman7997]

great series aman, keep it up!

[@brandonbuckmaster3077]

What did you see @35:45 that scared you from long castling? Was it the open file and their bishop staring at the queenside that did it?

[@GC0B]

10:52 wow I just checked a text message and two pawns were already missing xD

[@ethansmusic9898]

I know people who play the advance don't play it very well but Aman's line has a flaw in it. After Bd7 preparing to capture on d4, white has a nice reply dxc5. After 0-0 black has a serious problem with his dark squared bishop. A very common blunder is Ne7 which loses to b4! And the bishop is trapped! So long story short, black should capture once on d4 and then play Bd7 to improve on this line. Even then, whites gambit is quite a bit more deadly than the traditional Milner-Barry Gambit. White doesn't have to recapture and instead will focus on development. Thanks again Aman for the great content! Edit: misnotated a move, should be correct now.

[@hypnoticaldugong7835]

This is not a flaw… even tho i play the line you talked about, this is also perfectly fine for black, after O-O and a5 black is doing ok I should mention that i’m 2100 rated and that i only play e6 against e4, gives me some credit

[@ethansmusic9898]

​​​@@hypnoticaldugong7835 I'd say black shouldn't allow dxc5. White was committing to gambiting a pawn and now they get to play a position with even material and all the same benefits. I think the engine gives white a decent advantage as well. Edit: at a low depth the engine after ...a5 gives white a solid advantage. Around 0.7. White can follow up with simple attacking moves such as Re1, h4 h5, Nd2 f1 g3 h5 or Nd2 b3 d4.

[@hypnoticaldugong7835]

@@ethansmusic9898 bro what is your elo ? just tell me because it matters if you are arguing with me, 0.7 a solid advantage ?? if you want to analyse a position in the opening don't watch the engine but go to lichess database, select rapid games and 2000+ players, and that is how you see if there is any advantage in the position, after a5 and any white response, f6 is statistically giving black more chances to win the game

[@ethansmusic9898]

@@hypnoticaldugong7835 But f6 occurs in less than 10 percent of the games in that position so....

[@hypnoticaldugong7835]

@@ethansmusic9898 but that's the point if you know you have to play f6 you're stastistically better. And i asked you your elo what's the problem ?

[@pathofmelee6746]

You are beginning to convince me, I'm about 1800-2000 level, waiting for that video to drop to see how this opening is doing at that level

[@tembedzaichigovanyika5954]

After watching the stonewall series with all the big attacks and easy wins, the French is looking very positional, and a little dicey already at 1500-1700. Well maybe ill get some much needed improvement at endgames

[@coal760-BH3]

It's funny because I'm about 1400 and I completely forgot there were options other than exchange and advance in the French lmao

[@Rhymes-and-Reasons]

awesome series

[@BumWatcher]

12:08 Kn b5 Qe4, just saying. Then b8 after the R on e. Cause you said not available.

[@kennethkakande]

16:00 I was hoping you wouldn't play Bc6 because of Bxa6, but you played it anyway because you knew your opponent wouldn't see it.

[@lazarilic644]

I love this series wow

[@lougaru2445]

I play the French but I really hate playing against it. I feel like a hypocrite

[@harrykmatras]

Same. It is so hard to face, as i always end up thinking about playing stuff i dont know. Jobawa london is a good reply to french

[@bjornfollin5056]

@@harrykmatrashow can you play jobava london against the french?

[@ethansmusic9898]

​@@bjornfollin5056In fact it's suboptimal to play the jobava setup against a french move order. White would be better off playing into the french

[@pismato6659]

am i just being stupid or at 4: 43 does he have back rank checkmate in two

[@jackbicknell4711]

He was in check so he couldn't play it

[@pismato6659]

thanks for wording that so kindly, i see it now

[@jackbicknell4711]

@@pismato6659 No problem, took me a second to see it too

[@tele-marmotte]

Ah the French défonce, love it

[@LFSPharaoh]

Anyone know the song at 4:50?

[@thetransferaccount4586]

good games there..

[@postmodernjusticemediaproj766]

4:53 did Aman miss a back rank mate?

[@postmodernjusticemediaproj766]

Qe1#, rxe1, rxe1# mate Or am I missing something?

[@wsemenske]

​@@postmodernjusticemediaproj766Aman was in check, so no

[@Mitch-dx4rj]

I like these videos. 🙂☮️

[@gwynjudd]

This series is such an eye opener. Everytime I play against it, I just lose pawns in the center of the board. I need to start playing it.

[@thetransferaccount4586]

develop repertoire x2

[@iambrianlevy]

Winning

[@scornfis640]

Tom Brady and the Bucs?

[@wsemenske]

Old stream, new video

[@scornfis640]

@@wsemenske Ah okay.

[@jeffreylavente7492]

Nice name xd

[@whyeumadbro]

Can u explain I don’t get it

[@jeffreylavente7492]

"stronger tighter" in Dutch we write sterker strakker, it's pronounced abit different with "ur" then "er"

[@sudarshansharma1142]

Pirc video

[@brandonbuckmaster3077]

Can you please do a rating climb with the nimzo indian. There's not a lot of content on it, ideas behind it or how to play it against whites various set ups against it.