Chess Openings, French (C17), Winawer, advance, 5.a3

CHESS OPENINGS

FrenchFrenchFrench

Annotated chess games with this chess opening:

chess opening #61516

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Leipzig Olympiad Final
Robert James Fischer vs. Mikhail Tal

Annotated by charleshiggie (2211): This is another in my series of annotations of interesting and educational draws. A link to my first one is here, http://gameknot.com/annotation.pl/the-immortal-draw?gm=61272 and like that game, this game ends in perpetual check. Fischer and Tal played eleven games against each other. Tal won four, Fischer two, and five games were drawn. Tal plays the French Defence.…

chess opening #28614

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French, Armenian, Greek
archaeopteryx (1532) vs. arrrr (1585)

Annotated by archaeopteryx (1633): This is a game I recently played and that leads me to the inevitable question which country to name it after. It started with a French Defense. It continued with the Armenian variation. It ended after a Greek Gift. Sometimes I wonder whether there's a country without some kind of chess-thing named after it... The first time I played e4 on gameknot. I have come to prefer this move to d4 because…