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Reply #6 - 03/20/04 at 10:43:33
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i must agree that most opening books cover to a very small degree the line i meet in practice. These lines includ the exchange variation, wing gambit, milner-barry-gambit, 2 qe2 etc The reason of course is that these lines are not critical and doesnt offer white a theoretical advantage. But that doesnt mean they can be as unpleasant to meet in practice simply because your less prepared for them.
  
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Reply #5 - 03/05/04 at 03:07:01
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Some lines in the "neo-Rubinstein" or "Katalymov" variation (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Qd5!?)
Position looks like Scandinavian, but has Black already done the useless move e6 ?
If White continues in the scandinavian style: 5.Nc3 then Black must choose between 5..Bb4 or 5..Qa5/Qd8.
If 5...Qa5 6.Nf3 c6 (or 6...Nf6 7.Bc4) 7.Bc4 c6 8.oo Bd6 (or Be7) White has small advantage (space advantage) and no clear target for Black.
If 5...Qd8 game will probably transpose to Rubinstein variation: 6.Nf3 Nf6 7.Bg5 (7.Bd3 transposes too) Be7 8.Bxf6!? Bxf6 9.Ne4
If 5...Bb4 then White can try the original 6.Qg4 (logical in the Winawer but here is the center is half-opened) or play simply 6.Nf3! (6.a3 or 6.Nge2 are slower).
Now Black has two main systems: one with b6!? and one with Bd7!?-Bb5 (Kuzmin).
For b6!? I only give here one game reference Malbran-Gurevich,Philadelphie 1989 (Psakhis) with the over-fianchetto Ba6,but Black can play Bb7 (Moran,P-Dimitrov,V/Mondariz 1994 ; Tirman,B-Tofan,I/Kocaeli 2002) 
If 6..Bd7!? 7.Bd3 Bb5 8.oo Bxc3 9.bxc3 Nd7 10.Rb1 a6 (Razuvaev-Kuzmin,URSS 1972 ) and I don't know if the move played was c4!? (Psakhis) or Qe2!? (Jovicic). I don't like Black position since White has a pawn center ready for moving.


  
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Reply #4 - 03/02/04 at 08:01:55
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cannot find anything on the Katalymov
This is a Rubenstein with Black playing 5.Qd5

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I am a potential subscriber and briefly browsed around.

This sounds stupid, but ......

I am disappointed by the lack of coverage in French exchange.  

At my level (around 1700 ELO), I see exchange variation all the time.  Although it has a drawing tendency amoung grandmasters, at my level games are rarely drawn.  I justed begin to learn openings and I need to learn strategy how to play it and win as black.

What does this have anything to do with you guys reading this?  Well, probably nothing but I am just hoping someone who says I am wrong and it is indeed covered in the website in some capacity.

  
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Reply #3 - 01/17/04 at 10:49:20
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I agree with Nolan Kordsmeier opening advice and must add that some players told me the usual sentence "exchange variation is drawish"...but after studying asymetrical system with early Nc6, I think you can win as Black.
New Psakhis's book "Advance and other anti-french variations" has 27 pages about the exchange.
  
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Reply #2 - 01/15/04 at 15:17:18
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I looked back through all of the French sections updates and found quite a few references to the Exchange variation and several references to playing for a win against worse and equal opposition.  (For playing for a win as Black in the French Exchange Variation against Superior opposition is NOT covered however!!   Grin)  True, it doesn't receive as much coverage as the other variations, but it's just not as critical.  I'll certainly agree with the last posts recommendation to get a copy of Watson's book (2nd or 3rd edition, or both).
  
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Reply #1 - 01/15/04 at 01:31:59
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I'm not a subscriber yet either, but I can offer some direction into some dynamic exchange lines for black.  All of my suggestions come from John Watson's Play the French, (3rd edition just came out).

Pick up a copy and you'll never be bored by the exchange again.
I will give the following as an interesting example.

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.Bd3 Nc6 5.c3 Bd6 6.Nf3 Bg4
7.0-0 Nge7 8.Re1 Qd7 9.Nbd2 0-0-0   

This leads to very intense attacking positions which i feel offers winning chances for both sides.   
  
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01/15/04 at 00:25:53
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I am a potential subscriber and briefly browsed around.

This sounds stupid, but ......

I am disappointed by the lack of coverage in French exchange.   

At my level (around 1700 ELO), I see exchange variation all the time.  Although it has a drawing tendency amoung grandmasters, at my level games are rarely drawn.  I justed begin to learn openings and I need to learn strategy how to play it and win as black.

What does this have anything to do with you guys reading this?  Well, probably nothing but I am just hoping someone who says I am wrong and it is indeed covered in the website in some capacity.
  
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