The Even More Flexible French - Strategic Ideas & Powerful Weapons - Viktor Moskalenko

The Even More Flexible French -  Viktor Moskalenko

The Even More Flexible French contains a more or less complete French repertoire for Black. Yet Moskalenko also presents quite a few dangerous weapons for White. The Ukrainian Grandmaster’s analysis is, as before, high-level, his touch has remained light and fresh. The famous French Defence is one of the most widely-played chess openings. It is a fighting opening, which perfectly suits many club players as well as a growing number of top players.

 When Viktor Moskalenko’s 'The Flexible French' appeared in 2008, it caused a sensation. It was hailed by reviewers from all over the world as eye-opening, full of new ideas, easy to read, sparkling, and inspirational.

Time has not stood still, and the popular French Defence has seen a lot of new theoretical developments, not few of which were inspired by 'The Flexible French'. Seven years after its publication, Viktor Moskalenko has decided to fully revise, update and extend his modern classic.

The Even More Flexible French has largely the same structure as its predecessor, but the content is fully up-to-date on the latest theory. There are twelve new chapters on lines that have grown in importance, 28 more games, and throughout Moskalenko has found hundreds of improvements, alternatives, new ideas and fresh weapons that will delight and surprise the reader.

The reader of The Even More Flexible French will find it the easiest and the most interesting to learn the main plans with the following structure in each Part:

• Historic origin of each variation
• Main ideas, resources, advices
• Analysis of the most interesting lines through model games
• Illustrative games (the best examples)
• Statistics, summaries and conclusions.

Compared to ‘The Flexible French'

Compared to ‘The Flexible French’, ‘ The Even More Flexible French’ has:

• 12 new chapters
• 28 extra games
• almost 100 extra pages
• updates and, where necessary, expansions in every chapter
• hundreds of improvements, alternatives and new ideas

The chapters are re-structured; lines that have become more important have been turned into separate games, or even separate chapters. Some of the ‘old’ games have been replaced by others. For Chapter 15 material was used from a Survey in Yearbook 98; Chapter 16 contains material from a Survey in Yearbook 112, and Chapter 18 contains material from a Survey in Yearbook 79.

Viktor Moskalenko - author

Viktor Moskalenko was born in Odessa, Ukraine in 1960. He became a reputable Grandmaster (1992) and a well-known chess coach. Viktor is married to Tatiana Yastrebova, who is a chess player as well. Viktor The Moskalenko won many tournaments in the Ukrain and his new home country Spain. Viktor is the author of The Fabulous Budapest Gambit (2007), The Flexible French (2008), Revolutionize Your Chess (2009), The Wonderful Winawer (2010), The Perfect Pirc-Modern (2013), and The Diamond Dutch (2014) and he is a contributor to the New in Chess Yearbooks and Chessbase Magazine as well.