But French defense needs have changed significantly in the past 30 years.

In the early days of the French Defense, no one had any idea how to play against it.

French defense plants and military bases now ring his city like a stockade.

However the French defenses proved to be well prepared and they were not in danger of enemy fire.

The outer French defenses withdrew back toward the city.

Another example occurs in the French Defense after 1.

The white king bishop is too important a piece to exchange for a knight in the French Defense.

Every night, Vietminh forces attacked different points to test French defense.

He was rich, he wasn't bad looking, and he did something in the French defense department, or whatever they called it.

His worst record was against the French Defense (1.

A French Defense Ministry official also defended the troops' performance.

I set out the chessmen and played a French defense against Steinitz.

Consequently, the French defenses were unscathed by the explosion.

His role in espionage was to "gather French defense information for the benefit of Soviet intelligence".

French defenses were initially successful and after heavy losses, Wolfe ordered a retreat.

An early scoop results in the resignation of the French Defense Minister.

Not a minute later, the French Defense Minister called.

But the French Defense blocks that diagonal with the d5, e6 and f7 pawns.

Mr. Richard, the French defense minister, concedes the possibility for concern.

The French Defense, with white or black, was one of Morozevich's chief weapons.

There it will serve the French defense ministry, as well as cooperating European countries.

A French Defense Ministry spokesman made the same point.

It is closely related to the French Defense, to which it often transposes.

Data provided by the French Defense Ministry on January 2007.

At a minimum this would have stretched the French defenses, allowing his attackers elsewhere to find weak points.