A fun lover's guide to Chess Opening Traps: French Defence

A fun lover's guide to Chess Opening Traps: French Defence

The French Defence after 1.e4 e6 can be a tough opening to play against.

This course shows how one can win quickly sometimes against the French Defence by setting a broad range of traps for the unsuspecting French defence player.  A number of different variations are explored which may act as candidates for a broader opening repertoire for use against the French Defence.

The Variations which are explored in this course to set traps include:

• The Winawer Variation

• The Classical variation

• The Rubinstein Variation

• The Tarrasch Variation

• The Advance Variation

• The Exchange variation

This course goes over the major chess opening traps that every chess player should be aware of in the French Defence. You may wish to explore different openings to gain an understanding of different pawn structures and imbalances. In doing so, you might incur the risk of falling victim to opening traps. This course will help make sure you don't fall into anything too nasty along the way, and you can also use these against unsuspecting opponents.

Traps also enable one to improve understanding of chess tactics such as X-ray attacks, double attacks, deflections, and other aspects of tactical chess.  They can be a great points scorer especially for tournaments where one needs to win quickly such as many online chess tournaments. A knowledge of traps therefore can help understand chess tactics better.

All the Instructive and funny blunders, Tricks, Traps and Quick Zaps one should be aware of in the French Defence

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What you will learn

• Be able to play stunning tactics and combinations and understand more the basis for their very existence
• Be able to get a better grip on the downsides that cause traps to be successful or not
• Be able to avoid traps in the opening by appreciating the downsides more of specific variations in the French Defence

Rating: 4.55

Level: Beginner Level

Duration: 12 hours

Instructor: Tryfon Gavriel