3...b6 in the French Defence Advance variation. PART 1 / 3

PART 1 of the second video lecture in the Chess Chatter series. I will try to explore the rare but playable strategic move 3...b6 in the French, by analyzing 2 of my own games: Porter, S - Lalic, P and Briery, E - Lalic, P. Deep positional battles can ensue, in which precise piece-play determines the control of key outposts and square colors. I have a great record with this surprise opening, and wholeheartedly recommend it! I apologize for the slight delay between video and audio I myself hope to learn from this video, in order to improve the future chess lectures in this series.

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[daveincork]

Any relation to Bogdan Lalic?

[DraganLalic]

Yes, he is my father. My mother also is a (women's) grandmaster. Thanks for checking out the video. :-)

[daveincork]

@DraganLalic That's pretty cool, tell him well played in the Cork Chess Congress, he was joint winner with GM Dejan Bojkov and my good friend FM Alex Lopez. Trying out this variation of the French but I find c5 much easier to play!

[DraganLalic]

@daveincork I will do :-)

[Zakdayak]

Interesting. I have a philosophical problem with playing a French where (almost apologetically) Black tries to trade off his bad bishop. It seemed to me a passive thing to do. I'm still not totally swayed over, maybe if I see lots more analysis of the Bc6+ line. Anyway, a nice vid. Do you have a copy of McDonald's book? I was wondering what the points of similarity were in that book with what you play...

[DraganLalic]

Thanks for watching. I haven't heard of this book by N. McDonald, but I have followed generally what John Watson said in his book "Dangerous Weapons in the French". Petrosian would sometimes play queenside fianchetto ...Bb7 and 0-0-0instead of exchanging bishops., if you prefer that. Bb5+ and then Ba4 is probably the most challenging White plan.