French Defense

The French Defense is an opening in chess. It belongs to the semi-open openings. This means that reception of the player with the white pieces at the beginning of the game center and attacking the player with the black pieces at a later date, the center of the edges off. The idea of this chess opening is to attack the white pawn moves through the Bauer Center c7-c5 and / or f7-f6. This opening was first applied in a correspondence games (1834-36) between the cities of London and Paris. The winner of this game owes its name to the opening. This chess opening until she became increasingly popularity in the late 19th Century to the most frequently played with defenses belonged. The chess players who used them, knew how to appreciate its complexity and ambiguity to. The battle for the initiative in this opening often pronounced as it based on the white space advantage on the king's wing and the black space advantage on the queenside todifferent wings are played. The greatest importance in the development of the ideas of the French defense - ie the opening theory - have been particularly Tarrasch, Rubinstein, Nimzowitsch, Alekhine, Botvinnik, Keres and Uhlmann deserving. They developed the theory further in their opening Anlysen and lots. The main shortcoming of this chess opening is the long-continued inactivity of the black weifeldrigen runner. It is often over a long period behind its own farmers condemned to passivity. This meant that the opening is in today's top chess hardly encountered. If you are still devoted to the study of this opening will be rewarded with security by use of rich and exciting games. Besides the study of current and classic games of chess, each player should draw on chess books, since the ideas are best explained.