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Topic: Learning the French
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Merci, chouia, but I said "the French", not "French". That makes a lot of difference in English. ;-)
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I like Knut Neven's pair of training CDs ChessBase.
Play the French by John Watson worth the money. |
I have both, Tewald, and use them a lot. Now, to be honest, they carry a whole lot of information I'm not sure you can call "the best way to learn the French", especially for a hobby player like me!
The CDs have more information for begginers, with historical and strategical overviews, with all those arrows and colored squares chesbasse stuff comes with. It also has a big annotated database that can explain many ideas by French players themselves.
Watson´s "Play the French" is an intermediate to (even)professional repertoire book. It gives you a short overview of the variation (in plain English)and then a main line, with one or two secondary lines for the best moves (in his opinion)by White. Be assured it has plenty of chess information that you have to digest by yourself, and many risky lines for an amateur (I have lost a few games following them!), like exchanging Rooks for Knights, to get through alive. But it is still my best guide when playing The French.
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No sense of humour here.....but I understand it easily, reading beco talking about the "old Anti-French"... 
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Thanks, everyone. I appreciate the further explanation, robelix.
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