<How to beat the French Defence by Andreas TzermiadianosEveryman Chess
http://www.everymanchess.com
424 pages
Price $25,95
ISBN 978-1-85744-433-9
How to beat the French defence is impressive written move-to-move repertoire book on the French Tarrasch from the Greece IM Andreas Tzermiadianos.
The author is a unbelievable hard worker and does not care to dig where other French experts sleep, for example I compared the line: 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.Bd3 c5
6.c3 Nc6 7.Ne2 cxd4 8.cxd4 f6 9.exf6 Nxf6 10.Nf3 Bd6 11.0-0 0-0,the key position of the main line.
This variation gets around sixteen pages of text and Tzermiadianos handles several alternatives for black as 12.Bf4 Bxf4 13.Nxf4 Ne4 as 13….Qd6 and 13…Ng4!?
By the way the move 13…Ne4 is also mentioned in the New and Chess book from Moskalenko but Tzermiadianos gives so much more information in these lines as any other book on the French Defence.
The first real lines in this book begin with page 42 the first 41 pages of this book are all introductions and strategies of the French defence.
Tzermiadianos even includes typical French endgames and here we can feel his skills of a experienced chess coach and French expert who does not fear to give his opening secrets away.
For the interested reader on 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 a6 Tzerniadianos recommends 4.Bd3!
He writes: I think this is the most dangerous move.White maintains all his options open and does’n hurt to exchange on d5,thereby keeping the black bishop on c8 in it’s ‘box’.
Other repertoire lines that you can find in this book in big lines are :3…Be7 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Be7!? 4.Bd3 c5 5.dxc5 Nf6 6.Qe2,3…c5
4.Ngf3 cxd4 5.exd5 Qxd5 6.Bc4,5…exd5 6.Bb5,3…c5 4.Nf3,3…Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.Bd3 c5 6.c3 b6 7.Nh3!
3….Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.Bd3 c5 6.c3 Nc6 7.Ne2,After Tzermiadianos the best option is 6...Nc6 7.Ne2 cxd4 8.cxd4 Qb6,this all is covered in chapter seventeen and is good for twenty pages of text.
Chapter eighteen and nineteen handles the old main lines with 8…f6 where white has some fine possibilities to hold a slight edge.
For the experts under us on 6….Nc6 7.Ne2 cxd4 8.cxd4 f6 9.exf6 Nxf6 10.Nf3 Bd6 11.0-0 Qc7 12.Bg5 0-0 13.Rc1 Tzermiadianos prefers to bring all his pieces in to play.
Included in this book is the Rubenstein variation with 4…Nd7 and of course as many lines in this book it is all provided with various alternatives.
The Tarrasch has always appealed to players who prefer a positional base as Karpov once did so impressively in the early seventies on his way to the top.
Included are 40 illustrated games but the book is written as a classic openings work with a impressive mass of original ideas!
<<<Conclusion: Tzermiadianos offers you in this book a unbelievable piece of hard work on the French Tarrasch!>>>>
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