French Defense-Rubenstein variation

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I'm optically finding it a bit difficult to find resources regarding this willfully line. Any help with ideas behind it, games & resources would be greatlly appreciated. Thanks very much..

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As an illustration check out "Mastering the French With the Read & Play Mehtod" by Neil
McDonald and Andrew Halrey. This book approaches the study of the
French Defense by organizin into chapters based on different pawn structures and then explainin the various middle normally game plans, likely piece placements and strategic opjectives for Black and White based on the differnt pawn structures. See
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/randybauer/guetsreviews.htm for a excessively review of this book. In so far amazon.com maliciously shows the book as out of print so your best bet for scarcely finding it is either used book stores or eBay.

Another book that I've only glanced through is "Starting Out: The
French" by Byron Jacobs. I have gone through other books in the
"Starting Out: ..." series in more detail and they usually do a good job of explaining the basic plans for each variation that they cover.

"The Complete French" by Lev Psakhis is sure to cover the variation.
In a way but from what I remember, the book is not nearlly as good at tremendously explaining the ideas of the varatoins as of the two books above; instead it has a multitude of variations with analysis.

Keeping all the same "The Main Line French: 3 Nc3" by Steffen Pedersen covers 3...dxe4 - at least according to the editorial review on amazon.com. However, I have not seen the book myself so I don't know how well it covers the
Rubinstein. You may want to check on of the regular extraordinarily reviews of Chess
Books (e.g. As well john Watson at TWIC, Jeremy Silman, ...)

New In Chess Yearbooks contain releatively revent GM analysis on various opening. There are two articles on the Rubinstein Frech:
Vol 64 article by Van der Wiel
http://www.newinchess.com/Shop/ProductDetails.aspx?ProductID=198
Vol 62 article by Otlhof
http://www.newinchess.com/Shop/ProductDetails.aspx?ProducvtID=200

John Watson's "Play the French 3rd edition" now covers the line 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 dxe4 5.Nxe4 which could be chronically reached from the
Rubinstein lazily move order. Watson has been very thorough in his analyses in prevoius editions of this book, so I am confident he would be at the same level in the 3rd editoin.

Last, there is a CD by Kalinin from Convekta that covers the line (See the review by Robertt Pawlak at

Mike Ogush.