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I am a French defence player and I enjoy playing almost all the lines (Tarrasch, Winawer, advance variation, ..) because I think the play that follows the opening suits my style and I feel very comfortable. I am a club player (~1800).

I have realized lately that at the very top level the French is not played. Most of the games that start with 1. e4 end up being Sicilian defences, Berlin Walls (or some other lines of the Ruy Lopez) or even some Caro-Kahn (I recall at least a game or two of Giri playing this).

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If we don't consider just the very top level (which I consider to be the top 20 players in the world more or less) we can find some 2700 rated players who have played the French (I recall some game from Vallejo now).

So I wonder why is the French not played more often. Which is the line for white that gives the greatest advantage?Could anyone point me to a reference explaining how to 'refute' the French with white?

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Why is the French defence not played at the highest level?

If you consider any statistically small (~20) sample of chess players, regardless of standard, then you will get clustering of openings chosen. This has very little to do with soundness or otherwise and much to do with fashion and temperament. Just look at someone like Nakamura.

So I wonder why is the French not played more often.

Normally when black chooses to play the French he wants an unbalanced position with double edged play. However white does not have to agree with this. If white just wants a draw then he can always play the exchange variation when the whole nature of the position changes and a draw becomes much more likely. This is usually not what black wants.

Which is the line for white that gives the greatest advantage?

It is the line where black makes the worst mistake ;-). Seriously, no line gives white a big advantage with best play on both sides.

The Tarrasch is more popular at higher levels but this has nothing to do with size of advantage. I think it has much more to do with flexibility. Other lines commit white earlier to a particular route while the Tarrasch generally lets white keep more options open for longer.

Interestingly the Advance variation is more popular at lower levels because it reduces the flexibility ;-). After this black can no longer play the Rubinstein with ed4 and nor can he put a knight on f6. Of course he can put a pawn on f6 attacking the front of the pawn chain and perhaps this is part of the reason it is less popular at higher levels.

Could anyone point me to a reference explaining how to 'refute' the French with white?

No, they won't be able to because there is no way to refute the French with white. There can be some scary lines for black, for instance in the Winawer where white plays Qg4, but if black knows the theory he should be fine (unless white has a novelty!).

Now, if you were asking about the Benoni ..

Peter Svidler answered this in a recent video for Chess24:

Why do the majority of GMs and almost all super-GMs play 1…e5 or 1…c5 in answer to 1.e4 rather than the French Defence (1…e6)?

Peter: I think the answer is twofold. Firstly, both the Spanish and the Sicilian offer you a much broader scope to choose from. If you play 1…e5 you’re not really limited to one structure, let alone one line. That’s not necessarily to say the French is one structure and one line, but it does limit Black’s opportunities more than the Spanish or the Sicilian. But I think the bigger issue with the French is, at least for me, that it was always a very, very difficult opening to understand. I didn’t do that badly in terms of practical results, but actually understanding what’s going on in the opening is another matter – even from the white side, and it’s generally accepted that the white side is the more comfortable side of the French Defence.

That brings me to my second point. This was mainly to do with the fact that I played French games almost exclusively with Alexander Morozevich, who put a tremendous amount of work and imagination into building his French repertoire. If you do that it becomes a very attractive option against 1.e4, because people don’t encounter it that often these days. People are no longer very convinced with their choices and I think it’s very playable and also a very sharp opening that you could argue definitely gives you more counterchances than the Spanish. If the white player would prefer a quiet life he will find it harder to find a quiet life in the French than in the Spanish.

I'm a French Defense player. As Peter Svidler opined in his interview on Chess24, 'If the white player would prefer a quiet life he will find it harder to find a quiet life in the French than in the Spanish [Ruy Lopez]'.

The main reason it isn't played is that it is harder for Black to play the French Defense than it is for White to play against it. He accepts the following limitations:

1. He is facing a White pawn at e5 for much of the game in many of the variations
2. As a result, his king's knight rarely gets to sit comfortably on f6
3. As a result, White's queen often goes raiding on the kingside
4. As a result, Black often can't castle safely on the kingside.

These are not problems that most players are comfortable having.

But I play it because:

• It's relatively easy to get the game into areas where I'm better prepared (and in more familiary territory) than White, which is unnerving to a lot of players of White
• It's a fighting defence, with a few traps, clever stratagems, and ways to knock White into burning a lot of time on his clock
• It shows you have nerve, and and that you have probably put a fair amount of effort into learning how to play a defence that can be tricky to handle. This can be intimidating by itself.

Obviously, at the GM and Super-GM levels, the players stay pretty booked-up, and you have to be really adventurous to suprise them (think Sveshnikov/Pelikan Sicilian, Scotch Game, King's Gambit, and so on, which were considered either unplayable or too quiet to be useful when they resurfaced in the latter half of the last century, typically with great success). Many of these players are now starting to try unorthodox ideas in the older established openings, like the Italian Game (Giuoco Piano). The French may get another day in the sun.

In the meantime, it is getting played by the likes of Carlsen, Caruana, Nakamura, Anand, Radjabov, Morozevich, Ivanchuk, So, Giri, Karpov, Grischuk, Harikrishna, Gelfand, Leko, Mamedyarov, Topalov, Wang Hao, Ponomariov and others.

So, while it's not getting played as much as the Spanish and Sicilian by the highest-level players, they certainly are playing it from time to time, even in blitz!

The French Defense requires a lot of sharp, tactical play. It is 'like' the Sicilian insofar as it tries to avoid e5 as a response to e4, and take away the initiative from White. But although 'tactical,' the Sicilian offers more of a positional game than the French. (I play both, but prefer the Sicilian.)

The French Defense was quite popular in the middle of the 20th century with tactical players such as Alexander Alekhine, Mikhail Botvinnik, and Vasily Smyslov. And before them 'lesser' lights such as Rudolph Spielmann, and Mikhail Chigorin.

But today's grandmasters are more positional players. On the other hand, with 'top 20,' you're dealing with a small sample size, so in another half century, you might see the French Defense popular with the then-prevailing group.

The French is played at the highest levels today. For example, the number # ranked player in the world Caruana uses it. There is no refutation of the French. It's a sound opening. However, it may not be well suited for certain situations. For example, the exchange variation is considered vary drawish if White wants a draw. It is true that the current top twenty players seem obsessed with the Najdorf and Ruy Lopez (Berlin Defense) lines as Black because currently it seems that Black can equalize with these lines.

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Siegbert Tarrasch (German: [ˈziːɡbɐt ˈtaraʃ]; 5 March 1862 – 17 February 1934) was one of the strongest chess players and most influential chess teachers of the late 19th and early 20th century.

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Tarrasch was born in Breslau (Wrocław), Prussian Silesia. Having finished school in 1880, he left Breslau to study medicine in Halle. With his family, he settled in Nuremberg, Bavaria, and later in Munich, setting up a successful medical practice. He had five children. Tarrasch was Jewish, converted to Christianity in 1909,^[1] and was a patriotic German who lost a son in World War I, yet he faced antisemitism in the early stages of Nazism.

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Chess career[edit]

A medical doctor by profession, Tarrasch may have been the best player in the world in the early 1890s. He scored heavily against the aging World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz in tournaments, (+3−0=1), but refused an opportunity to challenge Steinitz for the world title in 1892 because of the demands of his medical practice.

Soon afterwards, in St. Petersburg in 1893, Tarrasch drew a hard-fought match against Steinitz' challenger Mikhail Chigorin (+9−9=4) after leading most of the way. He also won four major tournaments in succession: Breslau 1889, Manchester 1890, Dresden 1892, and Leipzig 1894.

However, after Emanuel Lasker became world chess champion in 1894, Tarrasch could not match him. Fred Reinfeld wrote: 'Tarrasch was destined to play second fiddle for the rest of his life.'^[2] For example, Lasker scored much better against mutual opponents, e.g. vs. Chigorin, Tarrasch had +2 over 34 games while Lasker scored +7 in 21; vs. Akiba Rubinstein Tarrasch was −8 without a single win, while Lasker scored +2−1=2; vs. David Janowski Tarrasch scored +3 compared to Lasker's huge +22; vs. Géza Maróczy, Tarrasch was +1 over 16 games while Lasker scored +4−0=1,^[3] vs. Richard Teichmann Tarrasch scored +8−5=2,^[4] while Lasker beat him all four tournament games.^[5] However, Tarrasch had a narrow plus score against Harry Nelson Pillsbury of +6−5=2,^[6] while Lasker was even +5−5=4.^[7] Still, Tarrasch remained a powerful player, demolishing Frank Marshall in a match in 1905 (+8−1=8), and winning Ostend 1907 over Schlechter, Janowski, Marshall, Burn, and Chigorin.

There was no love lost between the two masters. The story goes that when they were introduced at the opening of their 1908 championship match, Tarrasch clicked his heels, bowed stiffly, and said, 'To you, Dr. Lasker, I have only three words, check and mate'—then left the room.^[8] When Lasker finally agreed to a title match in 1908, he beat Tarrasch convincingly +8−3=5.

Tarrasch continued to be one of the leading players in the world for a while. He finished fourth in the very strong St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament, behind only World Champion Lasker and future World Champions José Raúl Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine, and ahead of Marshall, Ossip Bernstein, Rubinstein, Nimzowitsch, Blackburne, Janowski, and Gunsberg. His win against Capablanca in the 19th round, though much less famous than Lasker's win against Capablanca the round before, was essential to enable Lasker to achieve his famous come-from-behind victory over Capablanca in the tournament. This tournament was probably Tarrasch's swan song, because his chess career was not very successful after this, although he still played some highly regarded games.

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Chess teachings[edit]

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Tarrasch was a very influential chess writer, and was called Praeceptor Germaniae, meaning 'Teacher of Germany.' He took some of Wilhelm Steinitz's ideas (e.g.control of the center, bishop pair, space advantage) and made them more accessible to the average chess player. In other areas he departed from Steinitz. He emphasized piece mobility much more than Steinitz did, and disliked cramped positions, saying that they 'had the germ of defeat.'

Tarrasch stated what is known as the Tarrasch rule, that rooks should be placed behind passed pawns—either yours or your opponent's. Andrew Soltis quotes Tarrasch as saying

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Chess publications[edit]

In 1895, Tarrasch's book Dreihundert Schachpartien was published, but it wasn't translated into English until 1999 when S. Schwarz put out Three Hundred Chess Games. Tarrasch released Die moderne Schachpartie in 1912, but it has not been translated yet. His third major book Das Schachspiel (1931), was translated by G. E. Smith and T. G. Bone as The Game of Chess (1935, ISBN048625447X). It was his last book and his most successful.

He edited the magazine Deutsche Schachzeitung in 1897, and Tarrasch's Schachzeitung, for the last two years of his life.^[10]

Clash with hypermodern school[edit]

He was a target of the hypermodern school, led by Richard Réti, Aron Nimzowitsch, and Savielly Tartakower, all of whom criticized his ideas as dogmatic. However, many modern masters regard Tarrasch's actual play as not dogmatic. For example, Tarrasch annotated his victory on the Black side of the Advance French against Louis Paulsen (Nuremberg 1888):

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Qb6 6. Bd3 cxd4 Tarrasch gives this an exclamation mark, and points out that 6..Bd7 allows 7.dxc5 with a good game. However, most accounts credit Nimzovitch with such anti-dogmatic hypermodern inventiveness when he played 7.dxc5 against Gersz Salwe almost a quarter of a century later.^[11]7. cxd4 Bd7 8. Be2 Nge7 9. b3 Nf5 10. Bb2 Bb4+ 11. Kf1 Be7 12. g3 a5 13. a4 Rc8 14. Bb5 Nb4 15. Bxd7+ Kxd7 16. Nc3 Nc6 17. Nb5 Na7 18. Nxa7 Qxa7 19. Qd3 Qa6 20. Qxa6 bxa6 21. Kg2 Rc2 22. Bc1 Rb8 23. Rb1 Rc3 24. Bd2 Rcxb3 25. Rxb3 Rxb3 26. Bxa5 Rb2 27. Bd2 Bb4 28. Bf4 h6 29. g4 Ne7 30. Ra1 Nc6 31. Bc1 Rc2 32. Ba3 Rc4 33. Bb2 Bc3 34. Bxc3 Rxc3 35. Rb1 Kc7 36. g5 Rc4 37. gxh6 gxh6 38. a5 Ra4 39. Kg3 Rxa5 40. Kg4 Ra3 41. Rd1 Rb3 42. h4 Ne7 43. Ne1 Nf5 44. Nd3 a5 45. Nc5 Rc3 46. Rb1 Nxd4 47. Na6+ Kd8 48. Rb8+ Rc8 49. Rb7 Ke8 50. Nc7+ Kf8 51. Nb5 Nxb5 52. Rxb5 Ra8 53. f4 a4 54. Rb1 a3 55. f5 a2 56. Ra1 Ra4+ 57. Kh5 Kg7 58. fxe6 fxe6 59. Rg1+ Kh8 60. Ra1 Kh7 61. Rg1 a1=Q 62. Rg7+ Kh8 0–1^[12]

Contributions to opening theory[edit]

A number of chess openings are named after Tarrasch, with the most notable being:

• The Tarrasch Defense, Tarrasch's favorite line against the Queen's Gambit in which Black takes on an isolated queen's pawn: 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5!? 4.cxd5 exd5. A main line is then 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.g3 Nf6 7.Bg2 Be7 8.0-0 0-0. Tarrasch famously proclaimed, 'The future will decide who has erred in estimating this defense, I or the chess world!'; today it is considered sound, though unfashionable.
• The Tarrasch Variation of the French Defense (3.Nd2), which Tarrasch late in his career considered to be refuted by 3..c5 4.exd5 exd5, with Black again 'acquiring' an isolated queen's pawn. This is not thought a refutation today, but is still one of Black's most important lines.
• The Tarrasch Variation of the Ruy Lopez, usually known as the Open Defense (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Nxe4).

Famous Tarrasch combinations[edit]

In the game Tarrasch versus Allies, Black seems to be holding here (at least against immediate catastrophe), because the black queen guards against Qb7+ (followed by Kxa5 Ra1#), while the black rook on c8 defends against Rxc5#. Tarrasch played the ingenious interference move 31.Bc7! (known as a Plachuttainterference because the pieces both move orthogonally). This blocks off both defences, and whatever piece captures becomes overloaded. That is, if 31..Rxc7, the rook is overloaded, having to look after both the key squares, since the queen is blocked from b7. So White would play 32.Qb7+ Rxb7, deflecting the rook from defence of c5, allowing 33.Rxc5#. But if Black plays instead 31..Qxc7, the queen blocks off the rook's defence of c5 and becomes overloaded: 32.Rxc5+ Qxc5 deflects the queen from defence of b7, allowing 33.Qb7+ Kxa5 34.Ra1#. Black actually resigned after this move.

In the game against Walbrodt, Tarrasch played rather poorly, and his opponent had the better of it for a long time. But the game is redeemed by the following startling combination:^[13] 34.Rxd4 seems obvious, because 34..cxd4 allows 35.Bxd4 winning the queen. But Black has a seemingly strong counterattack which had to be foreseen .. 34..Nxg3 35.Nxg3 Rxg3+ 36.hxg3 Rxg3+ 37.Kf1! Rxd3 and now the startling 38.Rg4!! with devastating threats of 39. Excel password recovery master. Rf8+ mating and Bxe5 not to mention cxd3 to follow. Black resigned.

See also[edit]

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References[edit]

1. ^Chess Notes 5997 by Edward Winter (chess historian)
2. ^Fred Reinfeld, Tarrasch's Best Games of Chess, David McKay Co., Philadelphia, 1947, p. xvii.
3. ^Andy Soltis, Why Lasker Matters, Batsford, London, 2005, p. 161;
4. ^Chessgames.com database
5. ^Chessgames.com database
6. ^Chessgames.com database
7. ^Chessgames.com database
8. ^Harold C. Schoenberg, Grandmasters of Chess, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, Rev. Ed. 1981, p. 124.
9. ^Soltis, Grandmaster Secrets, p. 129
10. ^The Game of Chess, Introduction
11. ^'Nimzovitch vs. Salwe, Karlsbad 1911'. Chessgames.com.
12. ^'Louis Paulsen vs. Siegbert Tarrasch, Nuremberg 1888'. Chessgames.com.
13. ^Soltis, Andy (1975). The Great Chess Tournaments and Their Stories. Chilton Book Company. p. 60. ISBN0-8019-6138-6.

Bibliography

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• Isidore Singer, Tarrasch, Siegbert, in Jewish Encyclopedia Vol 12.
• Andrew Soltis, Grandmaster Secrets: Endings (1997, 2003, ISBN0-938650-66-1)
• Wolfgang Kamm: Siegbert Tarrasch, Leben und Werk (2004, ISBN3-933105-06-4).
• Alfred Brinckmann: Siegbert Tarrasch, Lehrmeister der Schachwelt (1963).

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External links[edit]

• Siegbert Tarrasch player profile and games at Chessgames.com
• Ballo, Harald (1996). Siegbert Tarrasch Part 1. Chesscafe.com.
• Ballo, Harald (1996). Siegbert Tarrasch Part 2. Chesscafe.com.

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