Winning from the Winawer | Mastering the Middlegame – WGM Tatev Abrahamyan

June 28, 2016 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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Woman Grandmaster Tatev Abrahamyan shows two games she won out of the French Winawer. Take plenty of time to pause the video to calculate the positions.

2016.06.21
Varun Krishnan vs. Tatev Abrahamyan, 2014: C19 French, Winawer, advance, positional main line
Jue Wang vs. Abrahamyan, 2013: C19 French, Winawer, advance, 6…Ne7
http://chess-db.com/public/game.jsp?id=8604070.13301918.79213824.27978

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