Chess Openings, French (C04), Tarrasch, Guimard main line

CHESS OPENINGS

Annotated chess games with this chess opening:

chess opening #62623

(10)

Arm Wrestle
tombulous (1896) vs. archduke_piccolo (2120)

Annotated by archduke_piccolo (2340): White obtains an early advantage from a mismanaged opening by Black, but after a series of exchanges enters an end game in which White has a rook and two pawns for Black's knight and bishop. After a period of probing for weaknesses, Black manages to win the initiative, and then obtain an advantage. The game looked to be heading for the infamous king-bishop-knight vs lone king endgame, and hence …