The French Classical (Chess is Fun Book 10)

The French Defense is a frequent choice in tournament chess. The author has defeated the defense often, and here presents ten carefully annotated games in the Classical Variation, half his own, with specific ideas for playing the white side of this popular opening. There is coverage of the main line 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e5 Nfd7 6.Bxe7 as well as the Alekhine-Chatard Attack with 6.h4.

Unlike many other inexpensive chess e-books, these are fully annotated in understandable, simple language. The profuse use of diagrams make these among the first chess books that you can read WITHOUT A BOARD at your side.

Jon Edwards won the 10th United States Correspondence Championship in 1997 and the 8th North American Invitational Correspondence Chess Championship in 1999.