Win with the French Defence! A Versatile Chess System for Black | 800-900 

Friendly suggestion: It would be cool if you linked the VOD where this comes from. After watching these edited/concise videos, I like to go back and watch the whole thing if possible. Love these Aman opening lessons. They’re so great

Looking forward to this series. Looking back at the speedruns from a couple years ago, Aman has gotten so much better and more comfortable on stream.

Man, I literally was studying this opening yesterday, after the stonewall speedrun I became super comfortable with white, even if I lose I at least know why and how to improve, I got 60+ win rate with white, but black I kinda just play without a plan, so I decided to learn something with black to get the same experience, the French from Aman is an unbelievably pleasant surprise, now I will forever hear Aman's voice roasting me while playing, tysm for these guides brah!

this series has such a great value for intermediate players!

very excited to learn the French defense…loved and learnt a lot from the speed runs on this channel specially c6 against everything, the Bird, and Fianchetto only… i hope to see a Jobava London speed run next …thank you guys you basically destroyed the courses selling business with your super instructive and practical speed runs

Happy to see this series as I’ve been struggling with the French when trying to force a stonewall.

Really appreciate these series, Aman. Your style is fantastic and though I haven't played any of the openings you've done so far I still learn from it. I'm also glad you do these series past 2000 now as well because as a 2050ish player I find I learn the most from those games close to my rating (say 1800+). Thanks again for all the work you do.

Thank you for sharing this with the noob chess world! I've re-watched your stonewall videos probably around 20 times now. They are extremely helpful and I've learned a lot from it. I've only lost one or two games out of 20, since implementing it and I way a 400 level player.

0:00 Introduction to the French 1:27 Exchange 10:24 Saragossa Opening 20:43 Advance, Milner-Barry Gambit 24:20 Advance 34:22 Perseus Gambit, or: Hanging the e-pawn early on 43:58 Advance, 5.b3?! 53:18 Advance

Danya is the guy recommending the French Advance! He showcases the Nimzowitsch in at least two of his speed runs, but most notably in his newest speed run that has a special focus on openings. Love the series Aman! Your content is fabulous; all your series are so entertaining alongside being educational. I hadn't considered trying the French before but after this perhaps I will!

It's happening! You mentioned the French speedrun during earlier videos, but I was losing hope that they would be posted. I was desperate enough to spend time trawling the VODs, which was rough- I found a few but gave up after scanning dozens of long videos. Now it's served on a platter. I love my Caro (thank you, c6 speedrun), but I play e6 against d4, generally going for the English defense. So this is huge. I'm really looking forward to what you cook up against the d4 players in the intermediate range.

It was my first chess opening. It helped me understand some things about the Caro Kann and the Sicilian later

21:13 Can confirm, I remember being a lower rated player that played the advance variation vs the French and hung my center every time. I used to be quite scared of the French as a result. Fun to come back to the French from the black side after all these years, thanks for the instruction and the memories! ❤

What a coincidence! I played the French Defense for the first time today! But it was because of a mouse slip.

I found it really interesting that GM's don't have faith in this opening. Stockfish shows that the french defense is close to the best response to 1. e4. I wonder if over time GM's will start using it more often in competitive play

I finally understand all the follow up moves to the early Qb6! Thanks Mr. GM sir!

I was under the impression that the French defense was Bobby Fisher's Achilles heel. He rarely lost games but there are several examples where he lost to the French.

Wow!!! I've been waiting for this! I'll watch all the episodes, can't wait for it to get to like 1500 - 1600. Thanks Brah's! #SupportTheseGuys

@53:30 IM Andras Toth recommends the French advance for his beginner/club player repertoire. He goes into the millner-barry gambit as the main line

YES! Love the speedruns. Watch every ep many times.

I always enjoy Aman's humor. Without a doubt, he's the most entertaining chess streamer!

As a Francsh player myself i am more excited about this than i want to admit

I've been playing the French for a couple of months without much understanding of the middlegame plans. This helps so much. Thank you!

I used to play the french defence and I'd always win the center pawns just like your experience. Funny thing is though when I tried playing against the french I would try the advance thinking it would be no problem because I know the line but nope, I would just lose my pawns as well.

As a beginner I took to the French immediately and I think it's because if your opponent plays the exchange then you're just playing simple chess, but if they play the advanced then you have the advantage because your opponent is also low-rated and probably can't play the advanced position. So even if you're only slightly prepared for what to do next in the advanced position then you're gonna have a good game .. Aman explains this @21:19

@46:00 we see the kingside baseball diamond structure, famous for its attacking plans.

At 23:53 bishop to a4 was good move

I’m a stonewall brah thanks to the most recent series, I’m incredibly pleased that there exists this synergy 🤠

Hate playing against the French so hopefully I learn how to counter it!

yeahhh aman big up !!!!!! looking for more of this frence defense please keep up the good work :)

I love this speedrun . My fav is fianchetto speedrun as Nimzo-Larsen lover(1.b3?) but French and Caro-Kanin is my main response to 1.e4 .. great artwork:)

Love the thumbnail 😂

37:00 LOL I actually laughed out loud. THANK you for that! Absolute golden content for us low-bies TY AMAN

Being icelandic made me do a double take upon seeing the account name. Was not expecting that

Eager to see more ideas in french

You can sense the opponents anxiety trying to figure out how to unclog the center in the French. Its like a nightmare every time you face it.

ooohlala it's Aman fuckin Hambleton with another speedrun

I love your speedrun series, Aman. I wanted to ask if you could make a opening series with the almighty Hambleton Defense in the future. I bet everyone here would love to see that happen.

20:09 rook takes g3 looked like a brilliancy!!

I still love you Danya... but Aman's teaching style has made him the best chess educator on RU-vid.

I was waiting for this for long time! Thank you!

Love this new series. Thank you Aman

Thanks Aman, I love these series!!

Very fun to watch! Gonna be playing this one from now on

The most informative part is when Aman highlights the key moves with his evil laugh: "heh heh heh"

Been playing the french for a while, it works amazing! Especially when people overextend

Yeeeess Aman!!! Thanks, im french player and really looking forward for this!

Tried your exchange setup for the first time and the review said I played like a 2600 lol. Thanks for the interesting piece placement

That knight took a lot a vitamin P 😂 47:54

I’ve been waiting for this since Stonewall yay.

I've been waiting for this for so long

Upload the full slowbrah series

Chess dojo had an e4 speed run in which he called the French “the easy French” and always played the advance while scraping the competition 👍

Finaly my favorite opening, thanks!

Learning the stonewall and the french as my first 2 openings and your series are a godsend. Can anyone tell me the music at 7:29 ?

Thanks for another fun opening series.

God tier photo

You said at 4minutes that you didn't want to trade the dark square bishops because it would help your opponent but this was right after you said that because the pawn was locked on d4 the light squares were of more import. I would like to know why trading off his more active dark square bishop would be better for him.

Just Subbed for more French Defense Content!

53:10 I thought Aman was going for the starting position checkmate :(

Would have loved a caro kann one but the french will do!

Hope you advertising this opening doesn't make people stop blundering those pawns! I'm counting on that for almost half of my wins these days.

is it me or is Aman playing some really strong 900s here?

God dammit, the last thing we need is MORE french players

Been waiting for this

Thank you for the new speed run!

Thanks for the great content as always :)

letsssss goooooooooooooooo finally the french! I always heard this was a not so good opening. i used it for a while and i do get beat with it. so i dont use it, i use the pirc alot more and c6!!! but i'm fired up to learn the french.

What black openings would you recommend for beginners?

Which one or two openings for black ould you most recommend for a beginner? Also--for Bullet specifically--which ones for both white or black?

Yoooo what type of music is that ? Don’t need the playlist 😂

I like your username. Strong boy.

i was just thinking about learning the french, it must be destiny

Would be fun if sterkurstrakur (what a name btw!) happens to play another speedrun account, PoojaFan69...

Grabs the pawns and batten down the hatches. Looking forward to higher rated games.

openings like this scare me. I could totally see myself playing the advance with white and never really understand why I am losing all my pawns.

Pro tip: watch on 2x speed until he reaches around your elo

I think the most important lesson i learned from this video was that beginners are really bad at maintaining the center with the french defense. lol

Oui oui, la baguett. Merci beaucoup

Uh oh a new series!!

awesome. new speedrun series! ;)

Hey chessbrah i always wanted to ask what is the best thing to do in stone wall when they go NC6 and NB4 fast attacking your white bishop should you just let them take and trade it or play C3 once you see NC6 to prevent NB4?

anyone knows the song around 7:30?

Ding played the French against Nepo.

Here's hoping we get a guillotine variation in this Speedrun

I am convinced the French advanced is recommended by Levy.

I love chessbrah

Aman! French is good but what about the vonamiat Sicilian series?! Why abandon us so soon?

another banger after wonestall!

Rudolf or Kramlin?

Amazing! Can you please do French commentary on the videos?:D

What I learned is don't advance the e pawn as white for a chess dummy like me.

A quick question for Aman or anyone what if it gets transposed to the Colle System?

bro please do a scotch french speed run!!!!!

OH THANK THE HEAVENS YEEEEES

Can someone explain why at 40:43 forking queen and rook with knight was not the move?

Oh no... now I am going to have to study how to beat the french.

this speedrun is from the end of last year?

Brother I watch u for the chess but what is the track in the third game around the 22:00 mark. Shazam can’t pick it out😂

When a Canadian plays the French defense, is it called the French Canadian?