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C17: 5.dxc5 or 5.Qg4
Hi all,
just curios which has a better reputation 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 and now either 5.Qg4 or 5.dxc5.  5Qg4 as in Dangerous weapons or 5.dxc5 in 101 Attacking ideas by Gallagher.  <...

Started 04/14/10 at 02:53:19 by Zatara
2 2212 Last Post 04/14/10 at 19:37:33
By: Zatara
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C17: French Winawer 5. ... Ba5
Hi! I'm starting to study the following line: 
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Ba5 6.b4 cd4 7.Qg4 Ne7 8.ba5 dc3 9.Qg7 Rg8 10.Qh7 Nbc6 11.Nf3 Qa5
Do you think that Black can defend the...

Started 06/11/11 at 11:25:12 by Goldrake
8 6112 Last Post 06/15/11 at 11:21:16
By: Goldrake
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C17: Winawer 5.Bd2 sideline
The Winawer-mainlines are quite fun to play as Black. However, one of the disadvantages of the Winawer, is that white has a considerable amount of "sidelines" available. I guess 5.Ne2 is one of the mo...

Started 05/05/04 at 05:20:23 by Klick
9 16209 Last Post 03/04/14 at 19:58:39
By: Keano
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C15: Winawer Variation with 4. Bd2!?
Hi all, it's me again with another crazy, but functional line. 
Anyway, this move 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Bd2!? is known as the Fingerslip Variation.  Although the name doesn't inspire mu...

Started 01/03/04 at 23:42:19 by spakus
9 8701 Last Post 01/08/04 at 20:41:49
By: spakus
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C17: Armenian Variation -- any good?
Normally I hate this sort of question, which I always think is a little lazy, but I know little about French theory and I was hoping that someone could tell me whether the Armenian Variation (5. a3 Ba...

Started 04/05/06 at 14:29:01 by Markovich
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20 11944 Last Post 04/19/06 at 09:41:32
By: alumbrado
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Winawer experts
Hi, who are the model players of the Winawer from the black side? From the old time and currently. Thanks you!

Started 03/24/17 at 21:07:55 by nocteus
3 4876 Last Post 03/27/17 at 14:22:44
By: ReneDescartes
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7. a4
Hey guys, I'm looking for a good line with black against the annoying 7. a4. Do you have any thoughts on this? (The line goes: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. a4. )<br ...

Started 12/31/15 at 10:39:49 by SimonBoy
1 3411 Last Post 01/19/16 at 18:50:34
By: dom
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C18: Winawer Poisoned Pawn and update april 2008
About  game Cheparinov-Grishuk (given on www.chessgames.com), Grishuk repeated mistake from the stem game: Hort-Nogueiras,Rotterdam 1989 when novelty 20..Qc5 was played.
He is not alone running i...

Started 05/01/08 at 14:58:25 by dom
2 2674 Last Post 05/01/08 at 17:00:59
By: dom
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C18: 6... Qc7 Winawer
Is the line:
1. e4 e6
2. d4 d5
3. nc3 bb4
4. e5 c5
5. a3 bxc3
6. bc Qc7!?
intending if qg4 to play:
7. Qg4 f5
8. Qg3 cd
9. cd Ne7
still a viable ...

Started 10/18/04 at 17:06:23 by Eaglesfan2 (Guest)
4 2845 Last Post 03/05/05 at 12:19:34
By: Eaglesfan2 (Guest)
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C18: Winawer h4 - Castle under fire
What do you think about : 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 Ne7 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 c5 7.h4 Qa5 8.Bd2 Nbc6 9.h5 oo ?
No game in Chessbase-online database and theory only recommends 9...Bd7 (Uhlmann,Ps...

Started 11/11/03 at 05:21:21 by dom
9 6240 Last Post 05/12/04 at 05:36:00
By: MNb
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C18: Winawer with 7.h4 - What are black's chances?
Afternoon folks,
Have received and have started to look through Williams' book on the French. However, there are quite a few lines which he seems to advocate by his mentioning of them, but which ...

Started 04/07/12 at 17:24:35 by CraigEvans
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By: MNb
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C18: Odd Winawer
Hi,
I am wondering what is wrong with 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Ba5???  I know 6.b4 is good next move....
Thanks,
Zatara

Started 03/11/13 at 19:27:09 by Zatara
3 3678 Last Post 03/12/13 at 09:51:26
By: brabo
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C19: French Winawer, 7.h4
Some years ago I played a game that entered the h4-variation via [1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3 6.bxc3 Ne7 7.Nf3 Bd7 8.h4
As I played vs a youngster, I thought it might be a good id...

Started 08/26/11 at 10:32:45 by knightmare
5 6276 Last Post 09/12/11 at 11:00:54
By: knightmare
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C18: 7.h4! in French Winawer
I'm a 2078 ELO player and i play Tarrasch against the French,and now i want to switch to 3.Nc3.I came up with 7.h4 in winawer and white scores 62% with it!!..,Famous players who played this variation ...

Started 09/13/05 at 05:02:51 by armtwister
2 2404 Last Post 09/13/05 at 22:34:17
By: MNb
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C17: 5.Bd2 agaist the Winawer
I just watched GM perelshteyn's lecture on chess.fm regarding this line.  How accurate is this lecture?  I mean he makes it seem like the 5.Bd2 line is a automatic great game for white. I am no french...

Started 04/17/07 at 02:15:56 by megazord
5 3783 Last Post 04/18/07 at 20:38:09
By: dom
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C08: Winawer/Classical with 5.Qg4
Guys, two lines I'm not sure about the level of discussion on here (I must confess I've not gone through all 21 pages of threads, however), are the move orders:
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 ...

Started 03/11/08 at 18:53:44 by CraigEvans
8 11884 Last Post 08/12/13 at 10:58:45
By: tony37
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C16: Strange line in the Winawer
In my last game (second game as white through the last 2,5 years!  Tongue ) I came across a very strange line in the winaver variation. As I said, I play white. The game went:
The symbols !, ?, !?, ?...

Started 10/30/04 at 14:27:12 by Tzanidakis_Michael
5 3705 Last Post 11/10/04 at 09:54:26
By: HgMan
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C18: French defence book owners - question for you
Hi again,
Are there some books with detailed coverage of this Winawer line:
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 B:c3 6.b:c3 Ne7 7.Qg4 Nf5  ?
I have only very old Keres (1958) book on...

Started 05/01/06 at 18:54:37 by Dzambus
4 2981 Last Post 05/06/06 at 13:12:09
By: dom
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C18: Winawer- Pelletier-Yussupow,Basel 2005
Copy from http://www.beochess.ch/itagtr2005.htm:
(4) Pelletier,Y (2604) - Jussupow,A (2582) [C18]
ITAG Telerapid Basel (2), 2005
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Sc3 Lb4 4.e5 Se7 5.a3 Lxc3+ 6.bxc3 c5 ...

Started 04/26/05 at 17:06:25 by dom
0 1303 Last Post 04/26/05 at 17:06:24
By: dom
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C18: Winawer 7. Qg4 Kf8
I am wondering what your opinion is of this move. Are there any critical variations in your opinion is testing black? Have there been any important threads here on chesspub? I did I search but could n...

Started 05/09/10 at 14:43:11 by Dave90
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