French Defense [Ziegler, 2006]
01 - Advance variation 1 - 5.Nf3 Bd7 6.Be2.wmv
24.67 MB 02 - Advance variation 2 - 5.Nf3 Bd7 6.Be2.wmv
12.80 MB 03 - Advance variation 3 - 5.Nf3 Bd7 6.Be2.wmv
8.35 MB 04 - Advance variation 4 - 5.Nf3 Qb6.wmv
8.71 MB 05 - Advance variation 5 - 5.Nf3 Bd7 6.a3.wmv
7.86 MB 06 - Advance variation 6 - 5.Nf3 Bd7 6.Bd3.wmv
8.45 MB 07 - Advance variation 7 - 4.Nf3 cxd4 5.Bd3.wmv
8.81 MB 08 - Tarrasch - Intro - 3.Nd2 Nf6 - 9.Nf4.wmv
22.02 MB 09 - Tarrasch - Old Main Line 1 - 3.Nd2 Nf6 - 9.exf6 - 12.Nc3.wmv
25.99 MB 10 - Tarrasch - Old Main Line 2 - 3.Nd2 Nf6 - 9.exf6 - 12.Bg5.wmv
13.47 MB 11 - Tarrasch - Modern Main Line 1 - 3.Nd2 Nf6 - 9.exf6 - 12.Bf4 - 14.g3 & 14.Qc1.wmv
9.97 MB 12 - Tarrasch - Modern Main Line 2 - 3.Nd2 Nf6 - 9.exf6 - 12.Bf4 - 14.Nh5.wmv
11.93 MB 13 - Tarrasch - Modern Main Line 3 - 3.Nd2 Nf6 - 9.exf6 - 12.Bf4 - 14.Ne2.wmv
17.18 MB 14 - Tarrasch - Tarrasch with f4 1 - 10.Kf2.wmv
17.57 MB 15 - Tarrasch - Tarrasch with f4 2 - 10.Bh3.wmv
16.25 MB 16 - Classical French 1 - 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 - 10.dxc5 - 14.Qf2 & 14.Nd4.wmv
18.76 MB 17 - Classical French 2 - 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 - 10.dxc5 - 14.Qe1.wmv
9.72 MB 18 - Classical French 3 - 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 - 10.0-0-0-.wmv
7.07 MB 19 - Classical French - Alekhine Chatard Attack.wmv
12.15 MB 20 - Steinitz Variation 1 - 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 - 11.h4 - 13.Rh3 - 14.Na4 .wmv
6.76 MB 21 - Steinitz Variation 2 - 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 - 11.h4 - 13.Rh3 - 14.Ne2.wmv
5.41 MB 22 - Steinitz Variation 3 - 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 - 11.h4 - 13.h5.wmv
6.06 MB 23 - Steinitz Variation 4 - 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 - 11.Qf2.wmv
5.41 MB 24 - Steinitz Variation 5 - 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 - 11.Nb3.wmv
6.95 MB 25 - 3.Nc3 followed by 6.Bb5.wmv
3.86 MB 26 - 3. Nc3 followed by 7.Bf4.wmv
4.07 MB 27 - Miscellaneous.wmv
27.48 MB Instructions.txt
1.89 KB tracked_by_h33t_com.txt
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When I ask club king-pawn opening players the defense they most hate to face, somewhat surprisingly the answer I get most often is NOT the Sicilian, but the French!
Apparently this rock-solid reply to 1.e4 proves to be a tough nut for many White players to crack. Perhaps it’s that White feels he is entitled to be the one attacking, yet he has to spend the first several moves of the game defending Black’s siege on his d-pawn. Sacré bleu!
And now things have just gotten a whole lot worse for White as ChessBase has released a new DVD on the French by Swedish IM Ari Ziegler. In it he gives Black a complete repertoire on exactly how to make 1.e4 player’s lives extremely unpleasant.