Miedema: The Modernized French Defense - Volume 2: Against the Tarrasch CBH Award-winning author Charles Hertan knows

Award-winning author Charles Hertan knows what kids really need to know (and want to know) about getting their pawns and pieces ready for action

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Miedema: The Modernized French Defense - Volume 2: Against the Tarrasch CBH Award-winning author Charles Hertan knowsHere we are, together on this page, both interested in the French Defence with 3. Nc3 Bb4. Before telling you what you can learn from this opening, let me tell you a little story about my journey in the French. I started playing the French after reading John Watson's Play the French, which improved my play a lot. I learned that the French is a positional yet concrete opening, and many of my young opponents couldn't grasp its subtleties. Moreover, many