Defeat the French Defense - the French Wing Gambit Strategy

Hello everyone, it's a pleasure to see you again. I'm Soren, his favorite chess teacher. Today I would like to share with you some knowledge about the French Wing Gambit

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. It is something that can be done with white to fight against the French. It is quite efficient. It might be a bit surprising, especially if they haven't seen it very often or maybe ever, it depends on who you play with, but you definitely have some very good knowledge for yourself, put it in your Arsenal, apply it, see how it works, how it works. for you because it's definitely something that could be very useful and it's amazing, let me show you exactly what I'm talking about, so you're going to open with E4, presumably by the way, there's no such thing as an opening that suddenly opens up. like uh Universal Panacea that you are going to win every game or some secret or opening that some people might be trying to sell you that will result in an eternal chain of Victories, there is no such thing but what I am trying to do is just convey a very solid opening, especially betting lines, where maybe you will be a little better than your opponent and as long as the tactics are better in the middle and maybe a decent end game, hopefully you will win more than lose, definitely . now you will end up in an intermediate position with more than enough compensation so E4 E6 by the way let me not rush now so E4 E6 I know that normally D4 is played here and what follows is D5 and then you know It can be playing C3 or pressing E5, but what I want to propose to you today is to simply play an F3 knight after E6, so D5 now, don't take the pawn, don't take the pawn on D5, which I would like you guys to do. is just pressing E5 and now you've already accomplished something that's blocking the bishop on C8, so the bishop on C8 now you know is infamous, the bad bishop in the French is this guy that they need. to try to figure out what the heck to do with that bishop what diagonal to use so you've accomplished something the bishop has been blocked in the C5 forwards most 99.99 of your opponents will do C5 co-belligerence that's what the French C5 player plays, do you? what are you going to do next?

Don't do D4, no, you are going to play B4, what is the idea? The basic idea here, the essential plan is to deflect the C5 pawn, which normally attacks the D4 pawn and, so try. to make this guy move away from the center so that you win the center with the move like D4 a little later, so now assuming they will take the pawn, assuming they will take the pawn, you will now play D4 securing the start of securing a very strong pawn center here, okay and if the C6 knight you are going to play A3 again, another temporary sacrifice, don't worry because you will get the A3 pawn back, don't rush because you are doing C3 and this looks very good. for white I like it I like black it's a little tight uh they need room to maneuver pieces the bishop on C8 again the Eternal bad Bishop in the French well Eternal until it's gone um the pawn A3 will recover you will be playing Bishop a D3 you'll probably play Knight to A3 the drop depends on Black choosing to play next and what a very natural move would be here Bishop like uh E7 again not that many options for that Bishop, where the hell can they go?

Also, don't forget that there is also something else, the Knight on G8 who also needs to go somewhere, well, and there just aren't too many options, there isn't enough room for Black in this position, so let's assume that the Knight on H6 has don't be afraid, take the knight, trade them, okay, because even if they try to play the rook on G8 here, let's do it, you know you're going to castle and you shouldn't fear the rook on G8 because something is fundamentally missing here for black and that is to say , the bishop on C8 is practically blocked, I cannot cooperate if this bishop were free.

The white bishop would have had a problem, would have had a problem, okay, but the bishop is not especially, the c8h3 diagonal is closed for them, they could try to do it. opens with F6 but now it looks very good for white, so in this position you are doing very well here, you know you will bring this guy back, you will play Queen against D2 threatening to take H6, that looks very good. for white, if it gets to this point, let me back up a little here because it is possible that his opponent is playing and also let me find another side line here, it is possible, apart from bishop E7, black could choose to play Knight 386 in order to get the knight on F5 is very possible for each, to which you will respond bishop to D3.

It is an important idea to remember that the bishop wants to go to D3, even black castles or not, the bishop wants to develop. D3 so that is the happiest square for this particular bishop now, if you take the knight, not necessarily now don't take it at the moment, let them develop, they will play bishop on F5, that is absolutely fine, you could take the knight on A3, so that's a possible continuation here Bishop on D7 now your castle look this guy needs to play somewhere if you get traded that's even good for you and incredibly bad for black because if they took the Knight on A3 you'd take A3 and then they have a problem with the castle, so now if you remember this setup, if the knight is on F5 and the black bishop is on E7, it is very likely to happen a lot because there are not too many options for black hair and very easy for you to play, the G4 move is a good switch, something really good for you to play, probably the most active Knight on H4 that you will take and after the Bishop takes, you will push the F Pawn and this is looking for. very promising for white, another big advantage, but you still get more zero fifty, more or less, depends on the variations that will be played now, but that looks very good, they need to remove the bishop because, if they don't, it blocks the bishop and then you know all kinds of tactics are going to take place here and watch how active your bishops are, especially after this guy, the Knight on E3, goes to C2 to reset and then you have the bishop that and very well travels in A3 depends on what they do with this guy here so it looks very very very good.

I like it a lot, that's how I personally play against the French and let me come back in case I missed something here uh uh right, what happened, what if they don't take, okay, so you might be saying, okay, what if They don't take, I mean, what can they play? Because if they play with bishop E7, I'm just saying what you. What we're going to do is just take B4, just take B4, whether they pass with the bishop or take with the knight on B4, what are you going to play next? It's just C3, boom, when, where are they going?

They will probably return to A7 or probably go. in A5 uh that's fine that's very good for white and again black has the same little problem here it's just the lack of space in black's development so that's incredibly important because white has really expanded on the king side, your bishops are an absolute miracle, they work perfectly. well, especially the light square bishop for white, look at the big difference between the light square bishop and the dark square bishop like a light square bishop, a big difference and you know, if the bishop goes to A5, you would say thank you very much because you are I'm going to get your own Bishop back to suffocate them and prevent them from castling so I think it looks absolutely magnificent absolutely magnificent and I would say the guys go with the Gambit

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against the French and they are incredible main ideas as soon as they do the C5 challenge with B4 it's fine and again if they do something like Knight C6 again take this guy on C5, play C5 to recover, push the spawn attacking the bishop.

I don't know where they want to go, probably E7 or something, but it looks very, very good. here, all right, you have a good center, you are going to play a C3 and that is absolutely wonderful, so guys, this is the French

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variant of the Knight Wing Gambit, so play it and see how it turns out in your own games on the board, blitzes in quick games, hey. play it even in classics because it's really good to know and play. Excellent, thank you very much for being with me. I'll see you soon with more chess videos.