The Essential Guide to the Tarrasch
The French Defence is considered to be one of Black’s most reliable answers to 1 e4. Indeed, many players have become frustrated in their attempts to prove an advantage and make headway against Black’s ultra-solid formation.In How to Beat the French Defence, Andreas Tzermiadianos meets this difficult challenge head on. He advocates his favourite weapon against the French – the Tarrasch Variation – and reveals an abundance of opening ideas and novelties, providing the reader with a complete repertoire which is aimed at posing Black serious problems. Read this book and fight the French Defence with renewed confidence and vitality.
About the Author
International Master Andreas Tzermiadianos is an experienced tournament player, a prolific coach and also a well-known opening expert.
Reviews
“…player who has the time and energy to study and absorb the lines presented here will at least be very well prepared to face the popular defence, even if a slight edge is the most common outcome. “—Sean Marsh, Marsh Towers
“A very successful book with no great demand to knowledge of english language. If you have managed to read the cover text you have mastered the greatest barrier at all.”—www.bdf-fernschachbund.de
“Tzermiadianos offers you in this book a unbelievable piece of hard work on the French Tarrasch!”—John Elburg
“Of course there is no straight way to beat the French but in the book by Tzermidianos the player with white can find many possibilities to punish every weak deviation of the theory by black.”—Bab en Truus Wilders