Harding Tim. The Classical French

B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1991. — 205 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7134-6305-8.This book deals with everything arising from 1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 Nc3 Nf6 and with nothing else. For all practical purposes it supersedes French: Classical Lines (1979) by Wolfgang Heid enfeld and myself and the MacCutcheon section of my other 1979 book French: MacCutcheon and Advance Lines, although chess scholars may still find some of the detail in the older books of historical value. But such was the rapid development of the 3... Nf6 French in the 1980s that it was necessary to take an entirely new look at nearly every variation and modern examples of play predominate, particularly after.4 e5 and 4 Cg5 Ce7.