Normal Topic C18: 7.h4! in French Winawer (Read 2903 times)
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Re: 7.h4! in French Winawer
Reply #2 - 09/13/05 at 22:34:17
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I like 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Ne7 7.h4!? very much. My initial impression was, that 6...Qc7 7.h4 is a less good idea. Though it has not been played often, White has done very well.
It is probably underestimated yet. White must be willing to sacrifice one or two pawns, but with a lead in development and two bishops the gambit is sound.
As White has a hard time to prove a concrete advantage in the main lines too, I cannot think of any reason why 7.h4 should even be slightly inferior.
Uhlmann has only defended against White players who omitted Qg4, which is very possible after h2-h4-h5.
Whether to play Qg4 or not is one important decision to make; whether to allow the Black queen pawn grabbing another.
  

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Re: 7.h4! in French Winawer
Reply #1 - 09/13/05 at 17:06:30
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It is a decent system. Imo slightly worse than the other 2 main lines but that is my opinion. Be sure to check some Uhlmann (with black with a quick Bd7) games out in this variation. He is one of the very few who has played everything in the Winawer with black. Also games of Gulko are a good source (he usually plays the other critical variation which Uhlmann doesnt namely the ones with cxd4). Those are good to look at as those 2 are experts in the Winawer and thus will play the best moves (or the most natural when surprised).
  

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C18: 7.h4! in French Winawer
09/13/05 at 05:02:50
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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 include kasparov himself,Anand,Polgar,Shirov ,Morozevich etc,i think its a very sharp and interesting variation and mabe it will be someday the main line insted of 7.Qg4..famous games in this variation include kasparov-anand (draw),morozevich-pelletier(1-0),polgar-bareev(1-0) ,morozevich-shipov(1-0)..i'd like to know your openion about this variation
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