Reading books

Hello people,

Today was rather interesting, I was taught by a new malay cikgu. It was fun. 

Leong Hui, William and I, we cut bits and pieces of malay texts from berita harian,

to form a random story that interests others. We spent the whole lesson doing this, laughed

and joked about it, as the story was indeed merepek..

After malay, I went back, and as usual played my chess games, which

i unfortunately loss all of the 2 games with a 1600 player, a tragedy 0.0

I went for AAR for council, and saw chenrui, zheng ting, dale, chairman, secretariat, and hansong

there too. I drank many two cups of coffee, lol, something impossible and possibly improbable

with my mother by my side 0.0

Currently, I am slacking by watching chess videos, and i plan to read some novels and 

practice my mathematics later on. The post today is rather short, as i am very bored and

tired. It is a dark and gloomy day (the weather)

French defense

The french defense is an opening in chess. I am adopting this opening,

and currently spending time researching on it. 

It is seldom seen in competitive chess by grandmasters, though it is very solid and

gives a strategic, closed game.

It starts off with 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 There are many variations to this, the exchange,

advanced, classical, winawer, tarrasch and king's indian. I usually encounter the advanced variation with many players, and am able to give counterplay by moving c5 after 3  e5 by white.

Advanced

1. e4 e6 

2. d4 d5

3. e5 c5 immediately played for gaining center control if 4. d x c5, the weak black

light-squared bishop is freed and this gives black a fantastic game

4. c3 Qb6 commonly played nowadays to give more pressure on the d4 pawn, hindering white's development of his dark-squared bishop

Exchange

1. e4 e6

2. d4 d5

3. d x e5, d x e5 this is basically the exchange variation. It usually gives a drawish game for white, but black can try to prevent this by doing different move orders, but keeping in mind that there are solid of course

Winawer

1. e4 e6

2. d4 d5

3. Nc3 Nf6 provoking the advance of the pawn

4. e5 Nd7 

Tarrasch 

1. e4 e6

2. d4 d5

3. Nd2 this move characterizes the tarrasch variation. Nd2 prevents the pin on 

the knight unlike the classical variation, and is used often by many players.

Classical

1. e4 e6

2. d4 d5

3. Nc3 Bb4 knight pinned

4. a3 Bxb3

5. bxc3  The classical variation though doubling white's pawns, gives him

better grasp of the center. 

Hope you guys can enjoy this opening, and if you want me to go through how to play chess 0.0, or ask me about any positional or tactical ideas just for fun, I am more than delighted to help you and hear from your thoughts and ideas!!!

Have a nice day!