Miedema: The Modernized French Defense - Volume 2: Against the Tarrasch Kunst He trained David Bronstein and

He trained David Bronstein and was head coach of the Soviet women’s team from 1954 to 1982

e4 against a number of respectable openings

something that has sometimes been neglected or taken for granted

The Aesthetics of Combination: General Concepts

In this 4th Volume of his Tactics series

Miedema: The Modernized French Defense - Volume 2: Against the Tarrasch Kunst He trained David Bronstein andHere 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