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Bill Wall's Wonderful World of Chess
by Bill Wall

Quick French Lessons
 

Bonjour.  Here are some quick lessons in the French Defense:

Grossner - Budrich, Germany 1949
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nc6 4.Ne2 e5 5.exd5 Qxd5 6.c4 Nb4 7.cxd5?? (7.Qb3) Nd3 mate 0-1

Vujosevic - Bozilov, Belgrade 2003
1.e4 e6 2.c4 c5 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.f4 Nge7 5.Nf3 g6 6.e5 d6 7.Ne4 dxe5?? (7...Ng8) 8.Nf6 mate 1-0

Luysmans - Hovhanisian, Belgium 2004
1.e4 e6 2.b3 d5 3.Bb2 Nf6 4.Nc3 d4 5.Nce2 c5 6.e5 Nd5 7.c4?! (7.Nf3) Nb4 8.d3? (8.Nf4) Qa5 0-1

Blom - Jensen, Copenhagen 1938
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bd6 5.Bd3 Ne7 6.Bg5 O-O 7.Nf6+ gxf6 8.Bxf6 Qd7?? 9.Bxh7+ 1-0

Dake - Pauli, Baltimore 1936
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Ne2 dxe4 5.a3 Bxc3 6.Nxc3 Nc6 7.Qg4 Nxd4 8.Qxg7?? (8.Qd1) Nxc2+ 9.Ke2 Qd3 mate 0-1

Piatigorsky - Owens, New York 1951
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.Ngf3 Nc6 5.exd5 Nxd4 6.Nxd4 cxd4 7.Bb5+ Bd7 8.dxe6 Bxb5 9.Qh5 Qf6?? (9...Qc7) 10.Qxb5+ (10...Kd8 11.Qd7 mate) 1-0

Lohmann-Teschner, Bad Prymont 1950
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Nf3 Ngf6 6.Neg5 Be7 7.Nxf7 Kxf7 8.Ng5+ Kg8 9.Nxe6 Qe8 10.Nxc7?? (10.Bc4) Bb4 mate 0-1

Wall - Van Guilder, Guam 1974
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Qb6 5.Nf3 Bd7 6.Bd3 f6 7.O-O Nc6 8.Re1 cxd4 9.cxd4 Nxd4 10.Nxd4 Qxd4 11.Bg6+ 1-0

Yates - Marin, Hamburg Olympiad 1930
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e5 Ne4 6.Bxe7 Qxe7 7.Qg4 O-O 8.Bd3 Nxc3 9.bxc3 c5 10.Nf3 c4? (10...h6) 11.Bxh7+ 1-0

Sharif - Sargos, Lucerne 1982
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 c5 6.c3 Be7 7.Bd3 b5 8.Bxb5 Qb6 9.Bxd7+ Nxd7 10.dxc5 Nxc5 11.Ne2?? (11.Nb3) Nd3+ (12.Kf1 Qf2 mate) 0-1

Glusman - Huber, Postal 1946
1.e4 e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.exd5 Qxd5 4.Nc3 Qd8 5.Ne5 Nf6 6.Bc4 Nbd7 7.Qe2 Be7?? (7...Nxe5) 8.Nxf7! Kxf7 9.Qxe6+ Kg6 10.Qf7+ Kf5 11.d4 Qg8 12.Be6 mate 1-0

D. Hayes - Wall, Dayton 1980
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.Qe2+ Be7 5.Bg5 Nc6 6.Bxe7 Ngxe7 7.Nf3 O-O 8.Nc3 Re8 9.Qd2 Bf5 10.Bd3 Ng6+ 11.Ne2? (11.Be2) Bxd3 12.Qxd3?? (12.cxd3) Nf4 0-1

Nishimura - Wiedenkeller, Copenhagen 1982
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 b6 4.c3 Qd7 5.Be3 Ba6 6.Bxa6 Nxa6 7.Qd3 Nb8 8.Nd2 c5 9.Ne2 Nc6 10.O-O Nge7 11.f4 Nf5 12.g3?? (12.Bf2) c4 0-1

Croonenborghs - Messen, Belgium 2005
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Qb6 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.a3 Nh6 7.b4 cxd4 8.cxd4 Nf5 9.Be3 f6 10.exf6 gxf6 11.Nh4? (11.Bd3) Nxh4 12.Qh5+ Ng6 0-1

Bentsen - Time, Norway 2003
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.Bd3 Bd6 5.Qf3 Nf6 6.h3 h6 7.Ne2 O-O 8.g4 Re8 9.g5 hxg5 10.Bxg5 c6 11.Rg1 Nbd7 12.Nd2 Qb6? (12...Kf8) 13.Bxf6 (13...Nxf6 14.Qxf6) 1-0

Wall - Deepa, Internet 2004
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 b6 5.Qg4 Bf8 6.Nf3 Ne7 7.a4 Ba6 8.Nb5 Ng6 9.Ng5 c6? (9...Be7) 10.Nxe6 fxe6?? (10...Bb4+) 11.Qxe6+ Qe7 12.Nd6+ Kd8 13.Bg5 Qxg5 14.Nf7+ 1-0

Coles - Silverstein, Atlanta 1980
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.a3 Ba5 5.b4 Bb6 6.e5 a5 7.Rb1 axb4 8.axb4 Ne7 9.Nf3 O-O? (9...Nf5) 10.Bd3 Nec6 11.Bxh7+ Kxh7 12.Ng5+ Kg6 13.h4 Bxd4 14.h5+ Kf5 15.Qf3+ (15...Kxe5 16.Qf4 mate) 1-0

Gonzalez - Walton, Gibralter 2005
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 c5 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.Be3 Qb6 8.b3 cxd4 9.Nxd4 Bb4 10.Qd3? (10.Qd2) Nc5 11.Qd2 Ne4 12.Nxc6 Qxc6 13.Bb5 Bxc3 14.Bxc6+ bxc6 15.Qxc3 Nxc3 0-1
 

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