this is cutting edge work, especially for blitz games. Even the good ones might fall for such traps.

Jonathan : find out the move. Also Jonathan : put the move in the thumbnail

Please do more of these. I feel like you're singlehandedly changing the chess meta and you're very entertaining.

This idea has been introduced in detail in Simon William's 2011-book "The French". The only new move is 15. ... Rc1, which I really liked. The whole variation is meant to avoid the Millner-Barry, which isn't especially good for white theoretically - but in practice I've always been afraid of it appearing on my board. (-:

Absolutely hilarious presentation style and great opening prep! Thanks so much

I love this type of content. Really helpful and good for repertoire building. Thanks Johnathan!

Thank you so much! I’ve been waiting for this video.

Loved this lecture! Will look foward for more! Thanks from argentina

Love the creativity, keep showing us your new ideas sir!

I really love your chess content. I'm very glad you stared your own channel.

I really enjoy videos like this, thanks for the quality content.

Such stimulating ideas - thank you!

Great video! Really enjoyed it! I play the French. Will be looking out for more French videos. Especially the advanced variation

Wonderful lesson. Thank you.

The Advance is what I played as White, and I dreaded it as Black. Thanks for showing the great opportunities for Black here. I'll be going over and over this good stuff. I want to have Advance played against me now.

Great video!! Love your channel and your enthousiasm!

I must say, Mr. Johnathan Vampire Chicken Zolpi Schrantz, this is almost enough to make me start playing the French. I've never played the French. Not even one game. I did some study on it, and while I would never say that it's not a great opening, I've never felt like it would work cohesively with my particular playing style. You may have just changed my mind. You're also quickly moving to the top of my list of favorite chess streamers, alongside such names as Rosen and Finegold. Keep up the good work and great content, sir. 👏

In a time of pandemic, Jonathan’s commentary is a national treasure

Recently fell in love with the French, and I'm loving this risk free trappy line!

This weird stuff and dubious variations is what fires my passion for this beautiful game!!!

Love it! Thank you!

I love your enthusiasm about chess

Nice traps in French defence 🌹keep going on like these traps 👍🏆

Great video. Thanks for sharing

I've been following you since your first video, love from Italy

Absolutely mind blowing preparation, gonna build my French repertoire around this

love the video, thanks man

Thank you Jon

great video thanks!

One of the best chess vids I've watched insanity!!!

These are good lines and the possibility of getting them are great too... so thanks Jonathan...

I like it! Thank you!

Great video. Especially like the variation deals with both a3 advanced variation and the Bd3 gambit and the best counter (ne2) can be answered by f3 prying open f-file that white’s king is pinned down on, so attack will keep going a pace.

great analisis!

Fantastic Man!!!

Thank you!

Thankyou Jonathan, you are a great teacher. I like the nippy tempo............

this is great, thankss

This is where the fun begins

Love your videos 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I'm thinking that I lived inside Jonathan's brain I'd be lean and haggard, always out of breath and too often sucking my thumb. After watching this great display I'm now going for a long walk into the forest.

I have looked at hard analysis of my own ideas, now considering taking on the Milner Barry directly, but this is a creative concept that is amazing, seriously considering this one john

Love these

Great Video

Thanks Jonathan top man, any chance you could do a video on the ideas for the french exchanged for black? Keep it up mate

Love this stuff mannn

This is the most pumped-up in your face video I've ever seen on the French. Akobian was never this hyped.

Jonathan, you're the best! 😊

Awesome great video

LIKE on KZfaq, Jonathan, for such notable variations and trap lines. Well done!

when I saw g5 I instinctively said "ah hell nah". You proved me wrong tho; thats a cool line, will have to try it out myself.

I really love your channel.

Wow that rc1 line is soooo crazy i could not believe my eyes😆

(Timestamps for me) 1:26 Bd7 1:35 Rc8 3:34 a3 to stop Nb4 🔺🔺🔺 6:08 g5

Right, I used to aim for the "Fried liver attack traxler counterattack" as black. Now I will play the French xD Thank you for expanding my repertoire :D

Jonathan, I play the French a lot and I must say the rook C8 move is stunning, thank you for this video. It made every position super fun and if white allows the c file to open, they get crushed. Such a fun line to play. Is there any interesting ideas like this in the exchange variation from Black perspective?

Really amazing, and so fun ! Do you have something weird after the boring 3. exd5 ? Thanks.

After this videos my brain is literally on fire. This is like a college lecture

I seen Jonathan was making chess videos outside of SLCC. I subbed and liked before the video even started

Ok! Subscribed

Hi Jonathan. After cxd4, White can play oo and a kind of Millner-Barry gambit (with Rc8 instead of Qb6). The main idea being White focus on strengthening e5 pawn and usual balance pawn vs quick development.

My gawd this is gold

After white plays 12. Nf3 ...Bxf2+ and 13. Ke2 instead of 13. Kf1 it's actually only -0.6 advantage for black. Not a very human move to do, doing the Bongcloud King move, but might actually hold with perfect play. That was kind of surprising when I ran through your lines in the video. Great video as always. Sorry I'm 2 years late!

The minesweeper variation lol

I've watched this like 4 times now, love these ideas. Could you do a video on your favorite lines in the kings gambit, that's what I've been playing as white?

amazing

A comment for the algorithm! Thanks Jonathan!

10:18 Big instructive moment on not being super quick to play Intermediate moves

Oh :) 0:00 - Zefcatt has just followed :) - today Eric Rosen recommended your stream together with heavy dangerous gambits to his guest and to the viewers Jonathan :)

You're so clever among anyone I have I found in chess channels..

great！

I play advance French as white, so this is really helpful to know. I wonder if h3 was the best to prevent g4.

I need to watch this video about ten times.

My goodness! I'm looking into French for the first time in my life: Holy Moly, you gotta "stay fresh" as White here! 😊

22:14 Better than h5, Be7 developing a piece to an excellent square and still threatening g5.

Please do a series on the Moscow variation of the Semi Slav like you wanted to at Saint Louis but couldn't get the permission. I would like to see the continuation of the Semi Slav series.

please do more on this on white opening

I suggest after Bxf2+,Kf1,Rxc1,Qxc1,Bb5+,Qe2,Bxe2+ and black gains the Queen.If white doesn't takes the rook black is a piece up and has a positional advantage

I already encountered this position many times before i learned this g5 idea

Thanx for the good work. Please do one for the annoying french exchange variation.

I love this line (with 9...g5! 10.h3 Nxd4!) - first seen in the game Sveshnikov-Chernin (Riga, 1985). Back in the 90s, I tried (~10 times) to get it as Black in the Advance French, but unfortunately my opponents always deviated beforehand! Often, White avoids 6.Bd3 because it invites 6...cxd4 7.cxd4 Qb6, transposing back into the Milner-Barry Gambit which isn't everyone's cup of tea. When I did face 6.Bd3, three games went 6...Rc8 7.O-O cxd4 8.cxd4 Nb4 9.Nc3 Nxd3 10.Qxd3 Ne7. To me this looks OK for White as he has a useful lead in development to compensate for Black's bishop pair. None of my opponents tried the inferior 11.Bg5 here (see 2:30 ). Another two games went 6...Rc8 7.a3 cxd4 8.cxd4 Qb6 9.O-O Nxd4, resulting in a kind of Milner-Barry with a3 and ...Rc8 thrown in. It's not clear what difference that makes. With my opponents failing to cooperate 8-), I gave up trying for the tabiya of ...g5 & Nxd4, and decided to try other lines as Black :'(

Sweet

Ke7 brilliant:)

I play the French defense as black and the two most played responses by white on line and to a certain extent otb are the advance and the exchange. Do you have any tricky ideas for black to tackle the exchange by white. With thanks for your kind help.

New sub here, I'm a 1600 player and was looking for a new opening against e4, have decided to learn the French. Can you make a playlist dedicated to the French? Thanks-

The vampire chicken gambit

I have a exame tomorrow and this video just destroyed all of my memory 🙃

I like the live lectures on youtube.

If they blunder the rook in the first variation, then move their knight so the queen can attack it, moving the knight on your side of the board is brilliant.

2:03 What do you do if the opponent takes with the knight?

You are so underrated

It's going to take me a while to end up down these lines, but when I do it will be very entertaining.

I really don’t want to change to the french because I hate it as a e4 player but I’m so tempted

How do you get the screen behind you like that?

18:04 "What is the best move?" I watch this on youtube without any engine and I though Ba4 is best move, bc the bishop has been a target and now becomes active, Bd7-b5+ is not possible, white Queen comes to a4 (either by Ba4:d7+ or Bd7:a4), and the white King has a hideout on d1, not easy to check him after B:f2+, and he protects c1. But I did this without any engine, just by watching your video. So there might be some other tricks for Black to win the game. Have fun Jonathan, thinking about Bc2-a4 after Bf8-c5!

It would be nice to see the best response for white to g5.

But you never explained why we need the pawn on g5 and white's pawn on h3.

What if after g5 , Qh5? That would do some damage right?

What happens if the white bishop goes to any other square besides d3 in the beginning of the game?

Dat Black rook is such a torn for white