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The French Defense | Basic Plans, Ideas & Strategies | Chess Openings | IM Andrey Ostrovskiy

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The French Defense is one of the fundamental openings and a common defensive strategy against white's first move 1.e4. In this video, IM Andrey Ostrovskiy is sharing with you some of the major ideas and plans in the French Defense. The main focus of this video is to give you an overview of the basic ideas, strategies and plans for both sides in the different lines of the French Defense.

The French Defense is characterized by the following moves:

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5

White claims the center, while black challenges the e4-pawn. After 2...d4, we can enter various variations and the most important ones are shown in the video.

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