Chess Openings, French (C18), Winawer, advance variation

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CHESS OPENINGS

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Annotated chess games with this chess opening:

chess opening #1607

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Q- Chess
Grant N. (1700) vs. Issac G. (1930)

Annotated by cheetah08 (1200): This game starts out as a Winawer French where black can't castle on either side of the board. When white sacrifices a pawn black is put into a bind and finally castles, which leads to material loss. This game is a good game showing how a pawn sacrifice is worth it. This move initiates the Winawer , and pratically forces 4.e5 Black has managed to give white doubled pawns but at the…

chess opening #8031

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Don't let your opponent get a Queen!
wizardx (1534) vs. casmith_789 (1615)

Annotated by casmith_789 (1200): This game was played terribly by me but it shows: never let your opponent get a queen in the endgame! e4 - Standard move. e6. French defense. a4, letting the Black Bishop out. However, most of Black's pieces are on the Queenside and White would be better attacking on that side. Now the Bishop moves to b2. This cuts off its line of effect and although it lets the Q come to b1,…