"I am in the midst of Kamsky's fascinating 12..d4 in the PP. This move is heavily underrated in my opinion and I only wonder why it hasn't been played more often. Afterall, Eingorn had some decent games with it. 

Perhaps, Khalifmann's 13.Nd4 Nd4 14.Qd4 Bd7 15.Rg1 was what everyone was afraid of but I have reasons to believe Black can get good counterplay in this line as well. All I can say is, wait for the May's update.  

Regards,
Wei Ming"


You may also like to look at 12...Nf5 as played by English GMs Williams and Pert. Quite tricky.

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Seems Tiviakov has been doing well on white side versus 3 ...Be7 Tarrasch. Worth a deep look at his 4.c3.
McDonald suggested a take all the pawns and Bd7-c6 iirc.
Resources: last few cbm mags have had a running Be7 saga.

Agree: Winawer PP seems where its at now. Perhaps an overview/ mini-repertoire based on Kamsky's ...d4? [/quote]

I am in the midst of Kamsky's fascinating 12..d4 in the PP. This move is heavily underrated in my opinion and I only wonder why it hasn't been played more often. Afterall, Eingorn had some decent games with it. 

Perhaps, Khalifmann's 13.Nd4 Nd4 14.Qd4 Bd7 15.Rg1 was what everyone was afraid of but I have reasons to believe Black can get good counterplay in this line as well. All I can say is, wait for the May's update. 

Regards,
Wei Ming

Bibs wrote on 04/25/09 at 11:44:30:


Right, at the risk of destroying any surprise element, I'll be doing just that. 

Wei Ming

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Moskalenko's "Black Queen Blues" would suit to the PP - 6...Qa5, 7...Qa4 - do you think White has an advantage in this line?

Kamsky blew another great position against Karjakin in the french

The French forum has been a bit quiet recently, so I thought I’d report a few developments to try to stir up some interest.

1)      Chess Base Magazine 129 has two interesting articles on the French; Langrock concludes his series on the 3...Be7 Tarrasch and there is a useful digest on the Winawer Poisoned Pawn by Neven.
2)      Kamsky is playing the French in the Nalchik event, but his bad luck continues. He narrowly lost to Akopian in the Qxd5 Tarrasch and blew a great position against Kariakin in the Winawer Poisoned Pawn – in the latter game he showed some great preparation (probably intended for Topalov) but slipped up in a good, but very complex, position.
3)      Volkov (Black) recently lost to Rublevsky in the critical Tarrasch line 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.Bd3 c5 5.e5 Nfd7 6.c3 Nc6 7.Ne2 cxd4 8.cxd4 f6 9.Nf4 Nxd4 10.Qh5+ Ke7 11.exf6+ Nxf6 12.Ng6+ hxg6 13.Qxh8 Kf7.
4)      Tiviakov’s Tarrasch has scored very well for him over the years, but Volkov held him to a draw with 3...Nf6 in the Russian team Cup; however, the game was depressing from the black point of view – no winning chances.
5)      Shulman continues to place his faith in the French. He won a textbook Winawer against Sadvakasov at Foxwoods and continues to be a role model for 3...Be7 against the Tarrasch.
6)      Akobian (sic) has been playing 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 dxe4 5.Nxe4 Nbd7 6.Nf3 h6, a line that does not seem have attracted much attention so far.