French Defence the advance Variation

 Here we are going to discus about the advance variation of French defence. 1.e4 e6,2. d4 d5, 3. e5 

The most common move white plays of at the lover level is the advance variation e5. Often in the french defence you get a locked pawn center.

When you have this locked center, white has has gone e5 black normally relies on 2 pawn breaks to attack white center and to open up the center. 

The first pawn break is c5 and the second one is f6. In the french defe3nce black have a bad piece on c8 the light color bishop. The bishop is bad because it is locked behind the pawn chain.

The c5 break will attack on the main weakness of white d4 square. White does have space advantage and keep the pawns intact they will play c3, if they didn't play c3 we can take on the d4 and we have nothing to worry in this position.

e4 e6, d4 d5, e5 c5, c3 Nc6, pressuring the d4 pawn. The main line is Nf3, white is trying to keep the pawn structure.

Here the best move for black is the waiting move Bd7. The other main line is Qb6. I prefer the Bd7 because of 2 reasons 

The Rook can come to c8 in the near future and in some positions the queen can come to c7.

especially when we play f6 break.

If white take dxc5 then Bxc5 in this kind of position Black have to play the other pawn break quickly.

Here for Bd7 white have 2 main ideas one is Be2 and a3. If white plays a3, it is a mistake. Why a3 is a mistake. By playing as white is neglect ting the development and playing a move on the side of the board. To counter this black have to play actively on the center of board.

We nearly always go c5 and when the timing is right we go for f6.

If white take exf6, Nxf6 black is in great position. Black will bring Bd6, Qc7 ,0-0 and open f file great way to attack. Here black is very active it doesn't make sense for white to give away the center like this.

 If white play be then we can focus on the center of the board fxe5.

General Rule

If you are able to go f6 and take e5 and your opponent takes back on e5. We swap off as much as we can on e5. Forcing a white pawn to e5. 

The queen is not developed too early. Always try to move our pieces to squares where they have purpose. In this kind of position Qc7 if you want to play attacking crazy play castle queen side. This is very peasant kind of position for black.

 If we take fxe5 and white take dxe5 then they create a weakness Qc7.

One of the interesting line fxe5 white play b5. We have promising piece scarifies knight take d4. Here we can see. White take knight exd4 look at the massive pawns. This pawn going to run up the board knight on f6, Bishop on d6 and castle king side.

There is a gambit line here the Barry gambit. Bishop to d3 take on d4 white is breaking the defense of d4, qb6, 0-0, Nxd4,Nx4 , Qxd4 Nc3 pawn to a6 don't go greedy and take e5

Just play a6 this is not a good gambit for white, Queen will come to h4

The Bishop to e2 is the main line, it doesn't block the queens defence, now black Ne7 . f6 is not effective here, as white develop a piece they are ready to castle its not a good idea to open the center now.

Always try to think where your pieces should go. The knight will go to f5 and it will pressure d4, we are not afraid of white playing g4. That will weaken whites kingside.

White played Na3. The idea of Na3 is to come back to c2. As soon as white plays knight to a3 in gthe advance variation, you should capture on d4.

If white captures dxe5 then the knight will go to g6

When they play knight a3 we take d4, cxd4 now they can't come to natural square c3, Nf5, Nc2, Qb6,0-0. Here comes the new idea knight a4 the main idea is to exchange the bad bishop.

g4, Nc7,Ne1,Bc5,Nd3 h5,gxh5 Nf5 Be7,Nc6 a4 Bc4 b4 Qd8 Bg2 Nxe3 fxe3, Qg5.

1. e4 e6
2. d4 d5
3. e5 c5
4. c3 Nc6
5. N f3 Bd7
6. Be2 Ne7
7. Na3 Cxd4
8. Cxd4 Qb6
9. Nc2 Na4
10. g4
11. Like this we can continue.