{"product_id":"complete-french-advance-attack-french-defence","title":"The Complete French Advance: The Most Uncompromising Way to Attack the French Defence","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eThe Complete French Advance: The Most Uncompromising Way to Attack the French Defence\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Advance Variation is the most ambitious way to meet the solid \u003cbr\u003eFrench Defence. Its popularity among club players is not difficult to \u003cbr\u003eunderstand: by advancing the e-pawn to e5 on the third move, White not \u003cbr\u003eonly gains space but also blocks in Black's c8 Bishop and hampers \u003cbr\u003eBlack's kingside development by taking away the f6-square.The closed \u003cbr\u003enature of the positions arising from the Advance Variation leads to \u003cbr\u003estrategic play where positional understanding is much more important \u003cbr\u003ethan studying the latest theoretical developments. White can use the \u003cbr\u003eadvantage in space by building up an attack against the Black \u003cbr\u003eking.Grandmaster Evgeny Sveshnikov has played the Advance Variation in \u003cbr\u003ecountless games with excellent results and is, as former World Champion \u003cbr\u003eAnatoly Karpov puts it, ‘the world expert' in this variation. Together \u003cbr\u003ewith his son, International Master Vladimir Sveshnikov, he has \u003cbr\u003ethoroughly updated and expanded his earlier investigations that he \u003cbr\u003epresented in his first book on the French Advance in 2003.The \u003cbr\u003eSveshnikovs know that when you are teaching new patterns it is much more\u003cbr\u003e productive to use illustrative games than to show stand-alone, concrete\u003cbr\u003e variations. That is why they present many annotated grandmaster games \u003cbr\u003ein which they clearly explain the ideas and plans for both sides. They \u003cbr\u003ealso provide exercises and test positions in order to reinforce what has\u003cbr\u003e been learned. After reading and studying this book, White players, from\u003cbr\u003e amateurs to Grandmasters, will make their opponents' lives even more \u003cbr\u003edifficult.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"new in chess","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47194674757872,"sku":"9789056917180","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0751\/6084\/6576\/files\/the-complete-french-advance-most-uncompromising-way-to-attack-defence-744.webp?v=1745305418","url":"https:\/\/www.chessset.com\/products\/complete-french-advance-attack-french-defence","provider":"Chess Gorilla Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}