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It's 2 different openings, I guess the question is "is the advance caro kann a better french defense ?" I don't know for sure, well played it's fine but you should work on it more deeply than just "c6…

You can convert a better middlegame into a better endgame basicly. If white goes all in kingside, wins nothing there and gets the queens traded sure he might get a worse or loosing endgame but it will…

Black isn't better against e4 anywhere, to get a better endgame you'll have to outplay them at some point.

Steinitz french, Winawer french, slav, semislav, Kings gambit, KID, Najdorf, Scheveninguen, spanish, Nimzo...

If I resume the article the 5 reasons are 1 : because it's cool, 2 : because it's cool, 3 : because it's cool, 4 : because it's cool, 5 : because it's good.

"Play the Sicillian" sure, but which one ?

I usually go d3 h3 and manoeuvre the b1 knight to g3 against this early pin. d4 doesn't make that much sense against a lsb on g6.

You can play with Nf3 d4 c4 as well, it's underestimated.

There is some general concepts shared by any strategic game (considering war, economy, marketting... as such) : strategy / tactic (macro/microgestion), position & risk/reward evaluations...

To me it's the opposite, when I see the clock I can't see the position anymore.