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The Tricky Schlechter Variation against the French Defense

Course 113 episodes
(6 hours 21 min)

Creators GM Avetik Grigoryan

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After 1.e4, the French Defense(1…e6) is the 3rd most popular option for Black, behind Sicilian(1...c5) and 1…e5.

Our own coach, GM Avetik Grigoryan, played it all his life with the Black pieces.

So there’s a good chance you’ll face it in many games and need to be well-prepared against it...

Moves like 3.Nc3(mainline), 3.Nd2(Tarrasch), 3.e5(Advanced French) are the most common replies. You can expect Black to be well-prepared there.

That’s why in this course, our Grandmasters offer a repertoire starting with 3.Bd3 (Schlechter Variation), which is relatively new, and often many French players aren’t well-prepared against it.

In the introduction video, GM Avetik narrates one of his stories when he had a hard time against the 3.Bd3 line.

Below are some of the positions from the course:

French defense

By the end, you’ll have a tournament-ready repertoire to fight the French with the White pieces, knowledge of the middlegame plans, and a collection of attacking ideas.

Let’s jump into the lesson!

What you'll learn

A full repertoire to counter the French Defense after 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Bd3, covering important variations, sidelines and ideas.
Why 3.Bd3 is a powerful move, even if it breaks the opening principle of developing the Knight before the Bishop.
White’s strange Knight maneuver, which looks like a blunder but has a deeper idea behind it.
Model games to help you understand this opening better.
Typical techniques of playing against Black’s bad Bishop in the French.
How to play with the initiative and attack an enemy King stuck in the center and more.

Course Content

113
Episodes
2
Attachments
6 hours 21 min

1. Welcome to French Defense

Unlocked 4m 42s

2. Introduction to 3.Bd3! Tricky & strong move

Unlocked 1m 32s

Unlocked 20m 19s

4. Grigoryan A. - NN

6. Onischuk V. - Vosatiuk V.

1. Introduction to the 3rd section

4. 7...cd main line

5. Onischuk V. - Harika D.

8. Review of the 3rd section

1. Introduction

2. Black's idea

3. Sacrificing a piece!

4. Nice Checkmate

5. Just crushing

6. We are rook down Who cares! :)

7. Knight's maneuver e2->g3->f5

8. Our strong improvement

9. Black delays e5

1. Introduction

2. Black's idea

3. The correct move order

4. It's almost a novelty!

6. Our deep idea

7. We just laugh :)

1. Introduction

2. What's our next move?

6. Grigoryan A. - Hambleton A.

Congratulations!

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1. 11.gf! GM Avetik vs Kirkovsky

2. GM_Avetik vs Dawid_Bronstyn

1. Idea of 7...e5

2. Heberla B. - Gdanski J.

3. Lomasev S. - Sachdev T.

4. Whit'es ideas

1. Introduction

4. Black doesn't accept the sacrifice

8. Are you a cheater? :)

15. The ruined pawn structure

1. Introduction

3. The idea of 5.c3!

4. The strategy

5. The 1st option

6. The 2nd option

7. Avetik_ChessMood - Acapella_melo

8. The conclusion of 5...c4

11. Killing the parrot

12. The other setups

13. One more thing

15. 8...Bd6 first

16. The conclusion of early Bg4

17. Alekhine's idea

18. Nc6 with Bd6 and Ne7 setup

19. The conclusion of 5...cd4

21. Playing like Karpov

22. The happy Queen

23. The 2nd option

1. Introduction

2. Black's idea

3. Our ideas and the agenda

4. 8...e5 and our crazy response

5. The endgame after 8...ed5

6. 13...Ba6 and our novelty

7. The cheating move and our response

9. Another novelty and the crazy fight

10. The idea with Qa5

11. 8...Na6 and our novelty

13. The move order

French with Bd3

Engine's match, French Be7

4.9

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