This idea has been introduced in detail in Simon William's 2011-book "The French". The only new move is 15. ... Rc1, which I really liked. The whole variation is meant to avoid the Millner-Barry, which isn't especially good for white theoretically - but in practice I've always been afraid of it appearing on my board. (-:
I must say, Mr. Johnathan Vampire Chicken Zolpi Schrantz, this is almost enough to make me start playing the French. I've never played the French. Not even one game. I did some study on it, and while I would never say that it's not a great opening, I've never felt like it would work cohesively with my particular playing style. You may have just changed my mind. You're also quickly moving to the top of my list of favorite chess streamers, alongside such names as Rosen and Finegold. Keep up the good work and great content, sir. 👏
take a look at this advanced french trap too. This happens alllll the time in my games and gives a big advantage on just move 6 1. d4 d5 2. e4 e6 3. e5 c5 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. c3 Bd7 6. Bb5 Nxe5
@@jacobhunwick1588 I don't disagree that being up a pawn on move 6 is never bad, but I prefer the mainline French with the added Rf8, like Schrantz shows. Just personal preference.
Great video. Especially like the variation deals with both a3 advanced variation and the Bd3 gambit and the best counter (ne2) can be answered by f3 prying open f-file that white’s king is pinned down on, so attack will keep going a pace.
So I'm 1000 elo and I don't have any real black opening, aka i play defence until the opponent makes am mistake , but I think I got what I was looking for, this is amazing, even the way you teach is great, keep up ❤
The Advance is what I played as White, and I dreaded it as Black. Thanks for showing the great opportunities for Black here. I'll be going over and over this good stuff. I want to have Advance played against me now.
I have looked at hard analysis of my own ideas, now considering taking on the Milner Barry directly, but this is a creative concept that is amazing, seriously considering this one john
After white plays 12. Nf3 ...Bxf2+ and 13. Ke2 instead of 13. Kf1 it's actually only -0.6 advantage for black. Not a very human move to do, doing the Bongcloud King move, but might actually hold with perfect play. That was kind of surprising when I ran through your lines in the video. Great video as always. Sorry I'm 2 years late!
Hi Jonathan. After cxd4, White can play oo and a kind of Millner-Barry gambit (with Rc8 instead of Qb6). The main idea being White focus on strengthening e5 pawn and usual balance pawn vs quick development.
I'm thinking that I lived inside Jonathan's brain I'd be lean and haggard, always out of breath and too often sucking my thumb. After watching this great display I'm now going for a long walk into the forest.
I love this line (with 9...g5! 10.h3 Nxd4!) - first seen in the game Sveshnikov-Chernin (Riga, 1985). Back in the 90s, I tried (~10 times) to get it as Black in the Advance French, but unfortunately my opponents always deviated beforehand! Often, White avoids 6.Bd3 because it invites 6...cxd4 7.cxd4 Qb6, transposing back into the Milner-Barry Gambit which isn't everyone's cup of tea. When I did face 6.Bd3, three games went 6...Rc8 7.O-O cxd4 8.cxd4 Nb4 9.Nc3 Nxd3 10.Qxd3 Ne7. To me this looks OK for White as he has a useful lead in development to compensate for Black's bishop pair. None of my opponents tried the inferior 11.Bg5 here (see 2:30 ). Another two games went 6...Rc8 7.a3 cxd4 8.cxd4 Qb6 9.O-O Nxd4, resulting in a kind of Milner-Barry with a3 and ...Rc8 thrown in. It's not clear what difference that makes. With my opponents failing to cooperate 8-), I gave up trying for the tabiya of ...g5 & Nxd4, and decided to try other lines as Black :'(
Right, I used to aim for the "Fried liver attack traxler counterattack" as black. Now I will play the French xD Thank you for expanding my repertoire :D
Oh :) 0:00 - Zefcatt has just followed :) - today Eric Rosen recommended your stream together with heavy dangerous gambits to his guest and to the viewers Jonathan :)
I suggest after Bxf2+,Kf1,Rxc1,Qxc1,Bb5+,Qe2,Bxe2+ and black gains the Queen.If white doesn't takes the rook black is a piece up and has a positional advantage
18:04 "What is the best move?" I watch this on youtube without any engine and I though Ba4 is best move, bc the bishop has been a target and now becomes active, Bd7-b5+ is not possible, white Queen comes to a4 (either by Ba4:d7+ or Bd7:a4), and the white King has a hideout on d1, not easy to check him after B:f2+, and he protects c1. But I did this without any engine, just by watching your video. So there might be some other tricks for Black to win the game. Have fun Jonathan, thinking about Bc2-a4 after Bf8-c5!
Please do a series on the Moscow variation of the Semi Slav like you wanted to at Saint Louis but couldn't get the permission. I would like to see the continuation of the Semi Slav series.
I play the French defense as black and the two most played responses by white on line and to a certain extent otb are the advance and the exchange. Do you have any tricky ideas for black to tackle the exchange by white. With thanks for your kind help.
Jonathan, I play the French a lot and I must say the rook C8 move is stunning, thank you for this video. It made every position super fun and if white allows the c file to open, they get crushed. Such a fun line to play. Is there any interesting ideas like this in the exchange variation from Black perspective?
I don't understand at 6:35 Nxd4 is already giving you -1 why over complicate it with a suboptimal move? as after g5 if white just plays h3 to block the advance white is +1... I know h3 is not intuitive but why over complicate stuff when the most attractive move is simly better?
so I'm confused at the position at 2:04 is the idea that you should take both of the bishops but you lose the rook? or is it just take equal trades and then develop and black is doing well still
He says Nb4 sets up a (Rook supported) Knight jump to c2 with an attack on the Rook on a1 if White mistakenly plays Be2 because they are worried about NxB on d3... leaving the defense of c2. If White plays Nc3 to stop this, then he says go ahead with NxB on d3 and after QxN on d3 play Ne7. White often tries to pin the Knight to the Queen with Bg5, but after h6 White usually blunders the dark squared Bishop with Bh4. You attack it again with g5. It drops further back and the Knight on e7 that lured it out now threatens it with the move Nf5. The Bishop is trapped. Regardless, he says, if White blocked your threat to take the Rook with Nc3, then exchange your Knight on b4 for the Bishop on d3, and although White has defended properly the position is fine for Black. So...there's a little poison in the position your opponent may or may not swallow. If they allow it... you should see if they'll drink. 😉 He goes on to say his opponent in the game prevented all of this...but he still shared it because it's there and he's won positions with it. 👍
Black crushed white because after B-f2+ white moved king to f1 instead of e2. K-e2 is good no matter where white moved the knight previously (except to e2 of course). Please explain how black obtains an advantage. Thanks
I've watched this like 4 times now, love these ideas. Could you do a video on your favorite lines in the kings gambit, that's what I've been playing as white?
Can you please make a video on French exchange variation where e pawn takes d pawn of white I lost every time against that particular line please help me to improve my French I don't know but I really love French defense so I don't want to change my opening please consider it...
If they blunder the rook in the first variation, then move their knight so the queen can attack it, moving the knight on your side of the board is brilliant.
this is cutting edge work, especially for blitz games. Even the good ones might fall for such traps.
Please do more of these. I feel like you're singlehandedly changing the chess meta and you're very entertaining.
Jonathan : find out the move.
Also Jonathan : put the move in the thumbnail
He meant the twitch chat
Absolutely hilarious presentation style and great opening prep! Thanks so much
This idea has been introduced in detail in Simon William's 2011-book "The French". The only new move is 15. ... Rc1, which I really liked. The whole variation is meant to avoid the Millner-Barry, which isn't especially good for white theoretically - but in practice I've always been afraid of it appearing on my board. (-:
I love this type of content. Really helpful and good for repertoire building. Thanks Johnathan!
You're very welcome. Thanks for watching!
I must say, Mr. Johnathan Vampire Chicken Zolpi Schrantz, this is almost enough to make me start playing the French.
I've never played the French. Not even one game. I did some study on it, and while I would never say that it's not a great opening, I've never felt like it would work cohesively with my particular playing style.
You may have just changed my mind.
You're also quickly moving to the top of my list of favorite chess streamers, alongside such names as Rosen and Finegold. Keep up the good work and great content, sir. 👏
take a look at this advanced french trap too. This happens alllll the time in my games and gives a big advantage on just move 6
1. d4 d5 2. e4 e6 3. e5 c5 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. c3 Bd7 6. Bb5 Nxe5
@@jacobhunwick1588 I don't disagree that being up a pawn on move 6 is never bad, but I prefer the mainline French with the added Rf8, like Schrantz shows.
Just personal preference.
@@jasongent4088 Rc8 though
Thank you it was interesting
I really love your chess content. I'm very glad you stared your own channel.
(Timestamps for me)
1:26 Bd7
1:35 Rc8
3:34 a3 to stop Nb4
🔺🔺🔺
6:08 g5
Love the creativity, keep showing us your new ideas sir!
Loved this lecture! Will look foward for more! Thanks from argentina
Great video! Really enjoyed it! I play the French. Will be looking out for more French videos. Especially the advanced variation
Great video. Especially like the variation deals with both a3 advanced variation and the Bd3 gambit and the best counter (ne2) can be answered by f3 prying open f-file that white’s king is pinned down on, so attack will keep going a pace.
I love your enthusiasm about chess
Recently fell in love with the French, and I'm loving this risk free trappy line!
Thank you so much! I’ve been waiting for this video.
This weird stuff and dubious variations is what fires my passion for this beautiful game!!!
Thankyou Jonathan, you are a great teacher. I like the nippy tempo............
Wonderful lesson. Thank you.
So I'm 1000 elo and I don't have any real black opening, aka i play defence until the opponent makes am mistake , but I think I got what I was looking for, this is amazing, even the way you teach is great, keep up ❤
In a time of pandemic, Jonathan’s commentary is a national treasure
Nice traps in French defence 🌹keep going on like these traps 👍🏆
Great video!!
Love your channel and your enthousiasm!
Such stimulating ideas - thank you!
Thank you Jon
I really enjoy videos like this, thanks for the quality content.
The Advance is what I played as White, and I dreaded it as Black. Thanks for showing the great opportunities for Black here. I'll be going over and over this good stuff. I want to have Advance played against me now.
These are good lines and the possibility of getting them are great too... so thanks Jonathan...
This is the most pumped-up in your face video I've ever seen on the French. Akobian was never this hyped.
Absolutely mind blowing preparation, gonna build my French repertoire around this
I've been following you since your first video, love from Italy
Love it! Thank you!
One of the best chess vids I've watched insanity!!!
great video thanks!
this video inproved my french defense advanced variation by 2x even when i already know it well
LIKE on UA-cam, Jonathan, for such notable variations and trap lines. Well done!
Great video. Thanks for sharing
Nice video on French defense
I have looked at hard analysis of my own ideas, now considering taking on the Milner Barry directly, but this is a creative concept that is amazing, seriously considering this one john
when I saw g5 I instinctively said "ah hell nah". You proved me wrong tho; thats a cool line, will have to try it out myself.
This is where the fun begins
love the video, thanks man
Thank you!
After this videos my brain is literally on fire. This is like a college lecture
Fantastic Man!!!
After white plays 12. Nf3 ...Bxf2+ and 13. Ke2 instead of 13. Kf1 it's actually only -0.6 advantage for black. Not a very human move to do, doing the Bongcloud King move, but might actually hold with perfect play. That was kind of surprising when I ran through your lines in the video. Great video as always. Sorry I'm 2 years late!
I like it! Thank you!
Love your videos 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Hi Jonathan. After cxd4, White can play oo and a kind of Millner-Barry gambit (with Rc8 instead of Qb6). The main idea being White focus on strengthening e5 pawn and usual balance pawn vs quick development.
I seen Jonathan was making chess videos outside of SLCC. I subbed and liked before the video even started
I'm thinking that I lived inside Jonathan's brain I'd be lean and haggard, always out of breath and too often sucking my thumb. After watching this great display I'm now going for a long walk into the forest.
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great analisis!
I really love your channel.
Awesome great video
Great Video
Love these
2:03 What do you do if the opponent takes with the knight?
Jonathan, you're the best! 😊
I love this line (with 9...g5! 10.h3 Nxd4!) - first seen in the game Sveshnikov-Chernin (Riga, 1985).
Back in the 90s, I tried (~10 times) to get it as Black in the Advance French, but unfortunately my opponents always deviated beforehand! Often, White avoids 6.Bd3 because it invites 6...cxd4 7.cxd4 Qb6, transposing back into the Milner-Barry Gambit which isn't everyone's cup of tea.
When I did face 6.Bd3, three games went 6...Rc8 7.O-O cxd4 8.cxd4 Nb4 9.Nc3 Nxd3 10.Qxd3 Ne7. To me this looks OK for White as he has a useful lead in development to compensate for Black's bishop pair. None of my opponents tried the inferior 11.Bg5 here (see 2:30 ).
Another two games went 6...Rc8 7.a3 cxd4 8.cxd4 Qb6 9.O-O Nxd4, resulting in a kind of Milner-Barry with a3 and ...Rc8 thrown in. It's not clear what difference that makes.
With my opponents failing to cooperate 8-), I gave up trying for the tabiya of ...g5 & Nxd4, and decided to try other lines as Black :'(
okay gm
I enjoyed the comment
Love this stuff mannn
Thank you!
Thanks Jonathan top man, any chance you could do a video on the ideas for the french exchanged for black? Keep it up mate
this is great, thankss
Stumbled on this gem looking at the horwitz papa-ticulat gambit. 💜
Wow that rc1 line is soooo crazy i could not believe my eyes😆
22:14 Better than h5, Be7 developing a piece to an excellent square and still threatening g5.
1. e4 e6 2. Nf3 { C00 French Defense: Knight Variation } b6 3. d4 Bb7 4. Bd3 g6 5. d5 Bg7 6. O-O Ne7 7. Ng5 O-O 8. Qg4 h6 9. Nc3 hxg5 10. Bxg5 exd5 11. Nxd5 f6 12. Bf4 Nxd5 13. exd5 Bxd5 14. Bxg6 d6 15. Qh5 Re8 16. Qxd5+ 1-0
Right, I used to aim for the "Fried liver attack traxler counterattack" as black. Now I will play the French xD Thank you for expanding my repertoire :D
Oh :) 0:00 - Zefcatt has just followed :) - today Eric Rosen recommended your stream together with heavy dangerous gambits to his guest and to the viewers Jonathan :)
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I suggest after Bxf2+,Kf1,Rxc1,Qxc1,Bb5+,Qe2,Bxe2+ and black gains the Queen.If white doesn't takes the rook black is a piece up and has a positional advantage
18:04 "What is the best move?" I watch this on youtube without any engine and I though Ba4 is best move, bc the bishop has been a target and now becomes active, Bd7-b5+ is not possible, white Queen comes to a4 (either by Ba4:d7+ or Bd7:a4), and the white King has a hideout on d1, not easy to check him after B:f2+, and he protects c1. But I did this without any engine, just by watching your video. So there might be some other tricks for Black to win the game. Have fun Jonathan, thinking about Bc2-a4 after Bf8-c5!
A comment for the algorithm! Thanks Jonathan!
My gawd this is gold
Really amazing, and so fun !
Do you have something weird after the boring 3. exd5 ? Thanks.
Thanx for the good work. Please do one for the annoying french exchange variation.
I play advance French as white, so this is really helpful to know. I wonder if h3 was the best to prevent g4.
Please do a series on the Moscow variation of the Semi Slav like you wanted to at Saint Louis but couldn't get the permission. I would like to see the continuation of the Semi Slav series.
10:18 Big instructive moment on not being super quick to play Intermediate moves
I play the French defense as black and the two most played responses by white on line and to a certain extent otb are the advance and the exchange. Do you have any tricky ideas for black to tackle the exchange by white. With thanks for your kind help.
I have a exame tomorrow and this video just destroyed all of my memory 🙃
Jonathan, I play the French a lot and I must say the rook C8 move is stunning, thank you for this video. It made every position super fun and if white allows the c file to open, they get crushed. Such a fun line to play.
Is there any interesting ideas like this in the exchange variation from Black perspective?
please do more on this on white opening
I already encountered this position many times before i learned this g5 idea
You're so clever among anyone I have I found in chess channels..
I don't understand at 6:35 Nxd4 is already giving you -1 why over complicate it with a suboptimal move? as after g5 if white just plays h3 to block the advance white is +1... I know h3 is not intuitive but why over complicate stuff when the most attractive move is simly better?
I need to watch this video about ten times.
so I'm confused at the position at 2:04 is the idea that you should take both of the bishops but you lose the rook? or is it just take equal trades and then develop and black is doing well still
He says Nb4 sets up a (Rook supported) Knight jump to c2 with an attack on the Rook on a1 if White mistakenly plays Be2 because they are worried about NxB on d3... leaving the defense of c2. If White plays Nc3 to stop this, then he says go ahead with NxB on d3 and after QxN on d3 play Ne7. White often tries to pin the Knight to the Queen with Bg5, but after h6 White usually blunders the dark squared Bishop with Bh4. You attack it again with g5. It drops further back and the Knight on e7 that lured it out now threatens it with the move Nf5. The Bishop is trapped. Regardless, he says, if White blocked your threat to take the Rook with Nc3, then exchange your Knight on b4 for the Bishop on d3, and although White has defended properly the position is fine for Black. So...there's a little poison in the position your opponent may or may not swallow. If they allow it... you should see if they'll drink. 😉 He goes on to say his opponent in the game prevented all of this...but he still shared it because it's there and he's won positions with it. 👍
@@johnobrienii1156 thanks so much helped a ton :)
@@colbyt4807 You're welcome. :)
How do you get the screen behind you like that?
My goodness! I'm looking into French for the first time in my life: Holy Moly, you gotta "stay fresh" as White here! 😊
Black crushed white because after B-f2+ white moved king to f1 instead of e2. K-e2 is good no matter where white moved the knight previously (except to e2 of course). Please explain how black obtains an advantage. Thanks
amazing
Hiii legend!! Big fan😊
Thank you!
@@JonathanSchrantz sir I'm ur huge fan✌️
You are so underrated
I've watched this like 4 times now, love these ideas. Could you do a video on your favorite lines in the kings gambit, that's what I've been playing as white?
What if after g5 , Qh5? That would do some damage right?
Can you please make a video on French exchange variation where e pawn takes d pawn of white I lost every time against that particular line please help me to improve my French I don't know but I really love French defense so I don't want to change my opening please consider it...
I really don’t want to change to the french because I hate it as a e4 player but I’m so tempted
If they blunder the rook in the first variation, then move their knight so the queen can attack it, moving the knight on your side of the board is brilliant.
What happens if the white bishop goes to any other square besides d3 in the beginning of the game?
What is the name of this variation in the advance frensh