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Opening: French Defence

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Boris Gelfand Slaps Kramnik with a Double Bishop Sac

November 16, 2017 NHaselton Chess Lectures

#agadmator Boris Gelfand vs Vladimir Kramnik Munich Intel Express blitz ‘5 (1994) French Defense: Rubinstein Variation. Blackburne Defense

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Every Chess Player Must Know About Alekhine’s Gun

November 15, 2017 NHaselton Chess Lectures

Alekhine’s gun is a formation in chess named after the former world chess champion Alexander Alekhine. This formation

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He Sacrificed Double Rooks, The Result? Must See!

November 1, 2017 NHaselton Chess Lectures

Ludek Pachman vs Eckert Cista (1940) French Defense: Alekhine-Chatard Attack. Albin-Chatard Gambit (C13) 1. e4 e6 2. d4

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Saemisch Knows No Mercy: Black King Gasps For Air

October 29, 2017 NHaselton Chess Lectures

Friedrich Saemisch vs Oskar Menzinger Marktoberdorf (1953), Marktoberdorf FRG French Defense: Winawer. Maroczy-Wallis Variation (C18) 1. e4 e6

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Nimzowitsch Pinned Alapin’s Bishop 😅

October 26, 2017 NHaselton Chess Lectures

Aron Nimzowitsch vs Semion Alapin Saint Petersburg (1914), St. Petersburg French Defense: Classical. Delayed Exchange Variation (C11) 1.

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Mikhail Tal Has A “Trojan Horse” For His Opponent

October 16, 2017 NHaselton Chess Lectures

Mikhail Tal vs Wolfgang Uhlmann Moscow (1971), Moscow URS, rd 6, Nov-30 French Defense: Tarrasch Variation. Open System

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17 Year Old Boris Spassky Destroys French Defense With A Mighty Attack

October 15, 2017 NHaselton Chess Lectures

Boris Spassky vs Paschaian Melik Leningrad (1954) French Defense: Winawer. Advance Variation Moscow Variation (C17) 1. e4 e6

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Biggest Blunder in Chess History – Karpov vs Bareev – Linares (1994)

October 12, 2017 NHaselton Chess Lectures

#agadmator I forgot to turn off my Facebook, so there are a couple of message sounds in the

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Nezhmetdinov’s Creepy Trap In French Defense

October 11, 2017 NHaselton Chess Lectures

Rashid Gibiatovich Nezhmetdinov vs Alexander Ivanovich Konstantinov Rostov-on-Don 1st category (1936) French Defense: Advance Variation (C02) 1. e4

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Chess Opening: Reti Gambit

October 9, 2017 NHaselton Chess Lectures

The Reti Gambit is an aggressive approach to attack someone playing the French Defense. It starts out with

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