Status Updates From Chess Structures: A Grandma...

It is a mark of the respect I feel for this book that I am doing all the exercises. It really is a very nice piece of work, my main criticism is that there isn't more of it! 464 pages seems too short. So many interesting structures that he doesn't find space to cover...

"The best way to get into a French Defence structure is to play the Caro-Kann".

Now there's a useful piece of advice.

The following game is an interesting example from my own experience. I had always had problems with this structure and I spent the first few hours of the game just hoping to lose in an honourable way, yet somehow things worked out for me in the end.

[Introductory comments to the game Ehlvest-Rios, Sao Paolo 2009]