Good Knights in the Winawer
N E Menzi vs H Isgenderova, 2012  (C17) French, Winawer, Advance, 34 moves, 0-1
Bishop retreat
S del Rio de Angelis vs T Rendle, 2005  (C18) French, Winawer, 47 moves, 0-1
Retreat variation
H Vetter vs H Reefschlaeger, 1981  (C18) French, Winawer, 23 moves, 0-1
Exchange variation, exploit f pawn pin
S Tatai vs Korchnoi, 1978  (C01) French, Exchange, 14 moves, 0-1
Wicked Black attack in the pawn center variation
E Kengis vs R Djurhuus, 1991  (C05) French, Tarrasch, 20 moves, 0-1
Black attack in the pawn center variation
S Hamann vs Uhlmann, 1963  (C05) French, Tarrasch, 26 moves, 0-1
Early Qg4 in the Winawer
A Gavilan vs A Foguelman, 1951 (C15) French, Winawer, 56 moves, 0-1
Winawer poisoned pawn
J Cuenca Jimenez vs S Ivanov, 2012 (C18) French, Winawer, 23 moves, 0-1
Black closes the position with 6...c4 in the advance main line
S Zhigalko vs D Andreikin, 2010  (C02) French, Advance, 58 moves, 0-1
Milner Barry gambit
T Pitlagano vs L E Johannessen, 2002 (C02) French, Advance, 31 moves, 0-1
Poisoned pawn
Spassky vs Korchnoi, 1977  (C18) French, Winawer, 40 moves, 0-1
Tarrasch goes down
A Zapata vs Ivanchuk, 1990  (C07) French, Tarrasch, 33 moves, 0-1
Qc7
C Horvath vs Uhlmann, 1988  (C18) French, Winawer, 31 moves, 0-1
Black plays c4 in the Advance main line
H Teske vs Uhlmann, 1986  (C02) French, Advance, 46 moves, 0-1
Poisoned pawn
I Andersen vs S Christensen, 2007 (C18) French, Winawer, 27 moves, 0-1
Qa5
B Kazanski vs W Hook, 1968 (C18) French, Winawer, 34 moves, 0-1
Vicious Black attack in the Winawer poisoned pawn
Unzicker vs Uhlmann, 1962  (C18) French, Winawer, 27 moves, 0-1
Winawer poisoned pawn
R Bogdanovic vs Uhlmann, 1963  (C18) French, Winawer, 37 moves, 0-1
White plays 5.Qg4 instead of 5.a3.
N V Pedersen vs L Karlsson, 1996  (C17) French, Winawer, Advance, 9 moves, 0-1
Tarrasch main line, nice Black attack.
Blatny vs Lautier, 1988  (C07) French, Tarrasch, 31 moves, 0-1
Advance main line
F Carame vs N Getz, 2010  (C02) French, Advance, 24 moves, 0-1
4. Bd2 in the Winawer
R Hurn vs M Geveke, 2006  (C15) French, Winawer, 30 moves, 0-1
Black attacks with the isolani in the exchange variation.
G Berg vs Glek, 1994 (C01) French, Exchange, 25 moves, 0-1
Early f6 in the advance.
S Kristjansson vs Caruana, 2011  (C02) French, Advance, 30 moves, 0-1
Early Qg4 in the retreat Winawer.
Y Kruppa vs Lputian, 1991 (C18) French, Winawer, 60 moves, 0-1
F Jenni vs Caruana, 2006  (C19) French, Winawer, Advance, 29 moves, 0-1
Nice Tactical Tarrasch
M Langer vs H Danielsen, 2012  (C07) French, Tarrasch, 23 moves, 0-1
6.a3 line goes down
Z Amdouni vs P Wang, 2004 (C02) French, Advance, 30 moves, 0-1
Tarrasch Long castle by Black
D Howell vs H Wang, 2007  (C07) French, Tarrasch, 34 moves, 0-1
Advance with ...f6 after a3.
B Maryasin vs J Jetzl, 2013 (C02) French, Advance, 29 moves, 0-1
Advance with 6...f6
L Stetsko vs M Aulia, 2013 (C02) French, Advance, 23 moves, 0-1
Advance main line
H Hoang vs M Stojanovic, 2012 (C02) French, Advance, 22 moves, 0-1
Rxf3 exchange sac.
I Hakki vs Knaak, 1990  (C05) French, Tarrasch, 27 moves, 0-1
7.Qg4
N Litvinenko vs J A Barber, 2006  (C18) French, Winawer, 34 moves, 0-1
Timman vs Khalifman, 2000  (C18) French, Winawer, 26 moves, 0-1
J Polgar vs Khalifman, 2000  (C18) French, Winawer, 37 moves, 0-1
7.Qg4
M Mueller vs Vaganian, 1993  (C18) French, Winawer, 34 moves, 0-1
K Gautason vs O Johannsson, 2014  (C02) French, Advance, 21 moves, 0-1
V Laznicka vs Lupulescu, 2014  (C07) French, Tarrasch, 31 moves, 0-1
Nice Tarrasch.
T Kuybokarov vs Khalifman, 2014  (C07) French, Tarrasch, 37 moves, 0-1
R Molander vs Korchnoi, 2002  (C02) French, Advance, 26 moves, 0-1
I Berzina vs Y Xu, 2008  (C02) French, Advance, 24 moves, 0-1
Queen mate
J McConnell vs Morphy, 1850  (C02) French, Advance, 14 moves, 0-1
Advance, Black plays 6...f6
L Sapunov vs N Minev, 1958 (C02) French, Advance, 40 moves, 0-1
Steinitz variation with 5.Nce2
Shirov vs M Gurevich, 1993 (C11) French, 41 moves, 1-0
Bishop retreat to b6
Bacrot vs C Bauer, 2014  (C18) French, Winawer, 44 moves, 1/2-1/2
Alekhine vs A Nimzowitsch, 1931  (C15) French, Winawer, 19 moves, 1-0
Alekhine vs T Wilkins, 1933  (C15) French, Winawer, 35 moves, 1-0
6...Nh4
Fressinet vs Korchnoi, 1996  (C02) French, Advance, 29 moves, 0-1
Nh6 advance
Shirov vs Nakamura, 2016  (C02) French, Advance, 38 moves, 0-1
D Svetushkin vs R Edouard, 2013 (C18) French, Winawer, 32 moves, 0-1
E Mednis vs Romanishin, 1979 (C03) French, Tarrasch, 65 moves, 1/2-1/2
S Kristjansson vs Caruana, 2008  (C03) French, Tarrasch, 30 moves, 0-1
Exchange
W Winter vs Alekhine, 1936  (C01) French, Exchange, 39 moves, 0-1
Advance with 9...Bd7
Shirov vs M Gurevich, 2005  (C02) French, Advance, 37 moves, 0-1
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