Beyond Material - Ignore the Face Value of Your Pieces

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Colin Purdon
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Re: Beyond Material - Ignore the Face Value of Your Pieces

Post by Colin Purdon » Fri Jul 16, 2021 10:11 pm

Matt Mackenzie wrote:
Fri Jul 16, 2021 6:04 pm
Roger de Coverly wrote:
Fri Jul 16, 2021 12:45 am
JustinHorton wrote:
Fri Jul 16, 2021 12:24 am
The point is that it is very different to the "all world champions" he originally claimed to have read
You certainly wouldn't associate Fischer with playing the French, nor Kasparov really. Botvinnik, Petrosian and Karpov certainly played it. There's a handful of Tal games, including against Fischer.
Karpov not that much, though - isn't his best known game with it that drubbing by Geller? 1....e5, c6, and c5 were all much more often used.
Speaking of Geller, the French Defence was Spassky's main defence against Geller in their 1968 Candidates match.

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MJMcCready
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Re: Beyond Material - Ignore the Face Value of Your Pieces

Post by MJMcCready » Sat Jul 17, 2021 1:32 am

JustinHorton wrote:
Thu Jul 15, 2021 11:11 pm
Your claim:
MJMcCready wrote:
Thu Jul 15, 2021 7:27 pm
all world champions are practitioners of the French Defence
The reality:
MJMcCready wrote:
Thu Jul 15, 2021 10:41 pm
The French has been an integral part of many top players’ repertoires
Please, treat us to more of this academic rigour
If I thought you were generally interested rather than posting snide remarks then perhaps I would. You really ought to know better.

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