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CD The French Advance

CD The French Advance
By Sam Collins

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If you've enjoyed reading our chess books, wait until you've seen what's on this CD! Everyman Chess are delighted to be able to provide you with "The French Advance" in a format ideal for computer viewing. This will enable you to link to all the chess games, commentary and text from the original book and replay, and interact with the moves easily onscreen. The Advance Variation is a popular and direct way of meeting the ultra-solid French Defence, and is a firm favourite amongst uncompromising Grandmasters such as Alexei Shirov, Nigel Short and Alexander Grischuk. In this work, Sam Collins explains the strategies and tactics of this dynamic opening. Through the use of model games for both White and Black, he provides a thorough grounding in the key plans and ideas, so that readers can quickly and confidently begin to use the French Advance in their own games. It is ideal for club and tournament players. It explains the basic elements, strategies and tactics for both sides. It provides everything you need to know to start playing the opening straightaway.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #2701604 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-03-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: CD-ROM

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If you’ve enjoyed reading our chess books, wait until you’ve seen what’s on this CD!
Everyman Chess are delighted to be able to provide you with The French Advance in a format ideal for computer viewing. This will enable you to link to all the chess games, commentary and text from the original book and replay, and interact with the moves easily onscreen.

The Advance Variation is a popular and direct way of meeting the ultra-solid French Defence, and is a firm favourite amongst uncompromising Grandmasters such as Alexei Shirov, Nigel Short and Alexander Grischuk.
In this work, Sam Collins explains the strategies and tactics of this dynamic opening. Through the use of model games for both White and Black, he provides a thorough grounding in the key plans and ideas, so that readers can quickly and confidently begin to use the French Advance in their own games.

*Ideal for club and tournament players
*Explains the basic elements, strategies and tactics for both sides
*Provides everything you need to know to start playing the opening straightaway

Sam Collins is a former Irish Champion and a Chess Olympiad gold medallist. Despite his young age, he already has a wealth of writing experience, being a regular columnist for CHESS, Chess Mail and Chess Today.

This CD contains The French Advance (2nd Edition) in ChessBase format.

System requirements
Pentium; Windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP; 32MB RAM; CD-drive.
Viewed with Chessbase 6.0 and above; Chessbase Light (free download) and other Chessbase playing programs such as Fritz.

About the Author

Sam Collins is a former Irish Champion and a Chess Olympiad gold medallist. Despite his young age, he already has a wealth of writing experience, being a regular columnist for CHESS, Chess Mail and Chess Today.