A fun lover's guide to Chess Opening Traps: French Defence

All the Instructive and funny blunders, Tricks, Traps and Quick Zaps one should be aware of in the French Defence

What you'll learn

Be able to play stunning tactics and combinations and understand more the basis for their very existence
Be able to get a better grip on the downsides that cause traps to be successful or not
Be able to avoid traps in the opening by appreciating the downsides more of specific variations in the French Defence
Be able to understand more the philosophies behind great chess traps
Be able to get a firmer grip on the basics of winning chess and practice your forcing move awareness
Be able to get a variety of different opening systems and moves to try out for fun and results
Be able to see the diverse range of Greek Gift sacrifices that often provide quick wins vs the French
Be able to see a wide range of instructive blunders right in the early stage of chess games even from GMs and past World chess champions
Be able punish "suspicious" looking moves as they create subtle "scents of downsides"
Be able to replace more your routine habitual moves with more "punishing" moves right in the Opening
Be able to experience a wide variety of variations against and for the French defence getting awareness of specific downsides
Be able to have specific tactical insights in the French Winawer variation
Be able to have specific tactical insights in the French Tarrasch variation
Be able to have specific tactical insights in the French Rubinstein Variation
Be able to use surprise weapons and variations such as the "Finger slip" variation or the Chigorin variation or the Wing Gambit

Requirements

Knows the basics of playing Chess

Description

The French Defence after 1.e4 e6 can be a tough opening to play against.

This course shows how one can win quickly sometimes against the French Defence by setting a broad range of traps for the unsuspecting French defence player. A number of different variations are explored which may act as candidates for a broader opening repertoire for use against the French Defence.

The Variations which are explored in this course to set traps include:

The Winawer Variation

The Classical variation

The Rubinstein Variation

The Tarrasch Variation

The Advance Variation

The Exchange variation

This course goes over the major chess opening traps that every chess player should be aware of in the French Defence. You may wish to explore different openings to gain an understanding of different pawn structures and imbalances. In doing so, you might incur the risk of falling victim to opening traps. This course will help make sure you don't fall into anything too nasty along the way, and you can also use these against unsuspecting opponents.

Traps also enable one to improve understanding of chess tactics such as X-ray attacks, double attacks, deflections, and other aspects of tactical chess. They can be a great points scorer especially for tournaments where one needs to win quickly such as many online chess tournaments. A knowledge of traps therefore can help understand chess tactics better.


Who this course is for:

Chess beginner and intermediate players