Miedema: The Modernized French Defense - Volume 2: Against the Tarrasch CBH and not by Merijn van

and not by Merijn van Delft

Insider perspective from Kramnik's longtime manager and biographer Carsten Hensel

The outpost position of the jumper

was recently created for chess teachers at the DYSS

Award-winning author Charles Hertan knows what kids really need to know (and want to know) about getting their pawns and pieces ready for action

Miedema: The Modernized French Defense - Volume 2: Against the Tarrasch CBH and not by Merijn vanHere we are, together on this page, both interested in the French Defence with 3. Nc3 Bb4. Before telling you what you can learn from this opening, let me tell you a little story about my journey in the French. I started playing the French after reading John Watson's Play the French, which improved my play a lot. I learned that the French is a positional yet concrete opening, and many of my young opponents couldn't grasp its subtleties. Moreover, many