Chess Openings: Learn To Play The French Defense

Improve your chess with this powerful opening weapon!

What you'll learn
Get a strong position in the French Defense opening
Trap your opponent in the French Defense
Avoid traps in the French Defense
Attack the opponent's king in the French Defense
Requirements
A basic understanding of chess
Description
THE FRENCH DEFENSE has long been one of the most popular chess openings played at all levels. And for good reason, it's a very fun opening to play while also being extremely effective.
In this course, you will learn how to play the FRENCH DEFENSE with both the black and white pieces, including:
1. Must know tactics
2. Must know positions
3. Key defensive moves to avoid checkmate
4. Key attacking patterns to crush your opponent's king
5. Important piece maneuvers
6. Critical middle game positions
7. How to fight for key squares
8. How to best use the bishops 
9. How to take control of the center
10. How to get a strong position out of every opening
11. Much more
Understanding the opening phase of the game of chess is fundamental to becoming a strong player and will help you tremendously in blitz chess as the first several moves of the game can gain you a huge advantage and need to be made quickly in order to save time on the clock.
Once you finish this course and apply what you learn, you will be a relative expert at the French Defense and easily defeat most players that will not be as familiar with its many variations and intricacies. of this very effective opening.
LEARN TO PLAY THE FRENCH DEFENSE, and drastically improve your overall chess performance!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction to the French Defense

Section 2: The Advance Variation

Lecture 2 Intro to the Advance Variation

Lecture 3 The Advance Variation with f6

Section 3: The Tarrasch Variation

Lecture 4 Intro to the Tarrasch Variation

Lecture 5 The Tarrasch Variation Pawn Gambit

Lecture 6 The Tarrasch Variation with Best Play

Lecture 7 All Variations Win for Black

Section 4: The Winawer Variation

Lecture 8 Intro to the Winawer Variation

Lecture 9 The Winawer with Pawn Exchange

Lecture 10 The Winawer with Best Play

Section 5: The Exchange Variation

Lecture 11 Intro to the Exchange Variation

Lecture 12 The Exchange Variation King Attack

Section 6: Conclusion

Lecture 13 Conclusion

Lecture 14 Bonus Material!

Chess players that want to improve their opening skills