tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-128441442024-03-13T10:54:58.659-04:00The KenilworthianA frequently updated blog for the Kenilworth Chess ClubMichael Goellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512012158305281566noreply@blogger.comBlogger1143125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-39661671659807914832014-09-01T00:15:00.000-04:002018-06-18T15:41:13.455-04:00The End of Chess Blogging...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">...where The Kenilworthian bids farewell to his readers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have been blogging about chess since May 2005 and have received the Chess Journalist Association's award for "best blog" three times: in <a href="http://www.chessjournalism.org/aw2008.htm" target="_blank">2008</a> (the first year of the award), <a href="http://www.chessjournalism.org/2010/AwardsRecipients.htm" target="_blank">2010</a> (there was no "blog" award in 2009), and <a href="http://www.chessjournalism.org/2014entries/AwardsRecipients.htm" target="_blank">2014</a> (announced this month). Though I started the blog ostensibly to bring attention to the Kenilworth Chess Club, my motivations were mostly internal. Like Walter White from <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/" target="_blank">Breaking Bad</a>, "I did it for me; I liked it; and I was good at it." As I wrote <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/kenilworthian/2007/07/questionnaire-tag.html" target="_blank">back in July 2007</a>, this sort of work "seemed to bring together all of my strengths, as a researcher, writer, analyst, chess player, and budding web designer." Compiling bibliographies, researching what had been written about a line, putting together a detailed analysis, and turning it into a blog post (complete with playable java board, diagrams, header graphic, and links) immersed me in a state that <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow?language=en" target="_blank">Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi calls "flow</a>."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am giving up blogging mostly because I have other projects into which I now want to get immersed. So chess and chess blogging will have to be put away. But this also seems like a good time to withdraw from the field because I am convinced that professional chess blogging has made the amateur chess blog increasingly irrelevant. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When I began blogging nearly a decade ago, <a href="http://www.kasparov.com/" target="_blank">Garry Kasparov</a> had just retired from competitive chess and had closed down his chess mega-site just a couple years before, having demonstrated, it seemed then, that it was very hard to make money from publishing about chess on the web. The world of chess seemed to have no center, and chess writing on the internet seemed a field completely opened up to amateurs -- all of this just at the moment when Blogger and Wordpress had made posting online easier than ever. Chess blogs also seemed to offer a refreshing addition to the sometimes stodgy and slow-paced news cycle of chess in those days. Most new material came out on a weekly basis (for instance, at <a href="http://www.theweekinchess.com/" target="_blank">The Week in Chess</a> and <a href="http://www.chesscafe.com/" target="_blank">ChessCafe</a>), mirroring the weekly chess columns found in print media. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I don't think that even </span><a href="http://en.chessbase.com/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">ChessBase News</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> was daily at that time. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The <a href="http://main.uschess.org/" target="_blank">USCF website</a> was a total joke.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> And the most frequently updated and most closely watched site was </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mig Greengard's </span><a href="http://www.chessninja.com/dailydirt/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">The Daily Dirt</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> chess blog.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Blogs seemed to fill a void in the world of chess news, as chess fanatics had begun looking for daily updates about their favorite obsession. And a group of chess amateurs like myself began publishing online. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today, chess blogs and daily posts are no longer the domain of amateurs but also part of the offerings of professional chess websites. </span><a href="http://en.chessbase.com/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">ChessBase News</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> is the most widely read chess blog on the planet and generally has more than one post a day. <a href="http://blog.chesscafe.com/" target="_blank">ChessCafe's daily blog </a>offers nearly comprehensive links to everything of interest on the internet connected to chess. <a href="http://chess.com/">Chess.com</a> has absorbed the <a href="http://www.chessvibes.com/" target="_blank">ChessVibes</a> blog and has multiple new blog posts daily featured on its main page, many with video. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even "</span><a href="http://www.theweekinchess.com/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">The Week in Chess</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">" has daily updates, despite its name. We have LIVE coverage of chess events on </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.chessclub.com/" target="_blank">ICC</a>, <a href="http://en.chessbase.com/" target="_blank">ChessBase</a>, <a href="https://chess24.com/en" target="_blank">Chess24</a>, </span><a href="http://www.chessdom.com/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Chessdom</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, <a href="http://www.monroi.com/" target="_blank">Monroi</a>, </span><a href="http://chessgames.com/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Chessgames.com</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, and multiple other sources</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The world of chess news is completely saturated, and at nearly any hour of any day a chess fan can sit down at the computer and find more interesting chess than he or she has time to absorb. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Amateurs might have a place in the growing ranks of bloggers for professional publications. But they will never get paid, and their writing will become less self-directed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I think that my blog has been rather different from most in that I have always begun with a local perspective and tried to offer a comprehensive treatment of a topic, striving always to offer readers a definitive source of information or analysis (at least up until the moment of publication). You can see my ambition for being definitive in many posts, whether I was compiling bibliographies (on the <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2012/01/smith-morra-gambit-update.html" target="_blank">Smith Morra Gambit</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/04/grand-prix-attack-b23-bibliography-2006.html" target="_blank">Grand Prix Attack</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/06/bibliography-on-2b3-vs-sicilian-and.html" target="_blank">b3 vs the Sicilian and French</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2012/11/urusov-gambit-bibliography_26.html" target="_blank">Urusov Gambit</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/vienna-gambit-c29-bibliography.html" target="_blank">Vienna Gambit</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/03/glek-four-knights-and-paulsen-vienna.html" target="_blank">Glek Four Knights</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2011/07/scotch-four-knights-c47-bibliography.html" target="_blank">Scotch Four Knights</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2006/07/spanish-four-knights-c48-bibliography.html" target="_blank">Spanish Four Knights</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2012/12/elephant-gambit-c40-bibliography_12.html" target="_blank">Elephant Gambit</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2010/02/1e4-e5-2nf3-white-repertoire.html" target="_blank">1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 White Repertoire</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2013/01/ruy-lopez-birds-defense-c61-update.html" target="_blank">Bird's Defense to the Ruy Lopez</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2012/03/stonewall-in-black-and-white-annotated.html" target="_blank">Stonewall in Black and White</a>, </span><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-kavalek-system-vs-kings-indian.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Kavalek KID</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/03/samisch-kings-indian-byrne-system-e80.html" target="_blank">Byrne Saemisch</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/02/classical-kings-indian-with-6na6.html" target="_blank">KID with Na6</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/07/makagonov-kings-indian-with-h3.html" target="_blank">KID with h3</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2009/04/gleks-old-main-line-kings-indian-with.html" target="_blank">KID with exd4</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/03/white-fianchetto-vs-pirc-defense.html" target="_blank">Fianchetto Pirc</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/03/blumenfeld-gambit-bibliography.html" target="_blank">Blumenfeld Gambit</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2011/03/cochrane-gambit.html" target="_blank">The Cochrane Gambit</a>, or a <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2010/01/five-easy-pieces-open-sicilian.html" target="_blank">Five Easy Pieces Open Sicilian Repertoire</a>)</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, doing chess analysis (<a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-complete-caveman-caro-kann_20.html" target="_blank">The Complete Caveman Caro-Kann</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-complete-alrick-h-man-vienna-gambit.html" target="_blank">Vienna Gambit</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2009/06/labourdonnais-mcdonnell-attack.html" target="_blank">Labourdonnais - McDonnell Attack</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2006/05/mad-dog.html" target="_blank">Mad Dog Pirc</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2009/08/french-defense-monte-carlo-exchange.html" target="_blank">Monte Carlo Exchange French</a>, <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/articles/panther/" target="_blank">Panther</a>, </span><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2008/09/anti-petroff-repertoire-with-d4.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Anti-Petroff with d4</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-two-knights-anti-modern.html" target="_blank">Two Knights Anti-Modern</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2013/02/black-jet-in-steinitz-french.html" target="_blank">Black Jet in the Steinitz French</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2012/01/refuting-philidor-counter-gambit-with.html" target="_blank">The Philidor Countergambit</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2011/12/bryntse-faj-gambit.html" target="_blank">The Bryntse-Faj Gambit</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2008/08/steinitz-sveshnikov-attack-in-giuoco.html" target="_blank">The Steinitz-Sveshnikov Attack I</a> and <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2011/11/steinitz-sveshnikov-attack-revisited.html" target="_blank">II</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2010/03/left-hook-grand-prix-videos.html" target="_blank">Left Hook Grand Prix</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2009/12/friedels-fritz-ulvestad-wins-again.html" target="_blank">Fritz Ulvestad</a> and <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2009/11/gm-josh-friedel-plays-ulvestad.html" target="_blank">Ulvestad</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2009/11/marshalls-italian-legacy-of-d7-d5.html" target="_blank">Marshall's Anti-Italian d7-d5</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2009/10/sicilian-dragon-trap-with-6nd5.html" target="_blank">Sicilian Dragon Trap with Nd5</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2009/06/black-fianchetto-system-in-open-games.html" target="_blank">Black Fianchetto in the Open Games I</a> and <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2009/07/black-fianchetto-system-in-open-games_30.html" target="_blank">II</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2009/06/saemisch-attack-again.html" target="_blank">Saemisch Attack vs the Alekhine</a>, <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/kenilworthian/2007/07/spanish-four-knights-part-three.html" target="_blank">Spanish Four Knights</a>, etc.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">), compiling webliographies (<a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2011/01/panov-botvinnik-b14-webliography.html" target="_blank">The Panov-Botvinnik Attack</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2011/01/notes-on-chekhover-sicilian-b53.html" target="_blank">Chekhover Sicilian</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2010/12/budapest-fajarowicz-a51-webliography.html" target="_blank">Budapest Fajarowicz</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2010/08/laskers-defense-to-queens-gambit.html" target="_blank">Lasker's Defense to the QGD</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2010/05/anand-topalov-webliography.html" target="_blank">Anand - Topalov</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2010/03/caro-kann-defense-fantasy-variation.html" target="_blank">Caro-Kann Fantasy Variation</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2009/07/sicilian-dragon-webliography.html" target="_blank">The Sicilian Dragon</a>), reviewing books (such as </span><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-dark-knight-system-review.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank"><i>The Dark Knight System</i></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, </span><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2012/08/review-of-mayhem-in-morra-and-smith.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank"><i>Mayhem in the Morra</i></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/04/review-of-dejan-bojkovs-modernized.html" target="_blank">Modernized</a></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, </span><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-of-pete-tamburros-openings-for.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank"><i>Openings for Amateurs</i></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, Frank Brady's <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2011/02/frank-bradys-endgame-review-and.html" target="_blank"><i>Endgame</i></a>, </span><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2008/04/review-of-joel-benjamins-american.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank"><i>American Grandaster</i></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">,<i> <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2012/08/brief-review-of-calypso-chess.html" target="_blank">Calypso Chess</a></i>, <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/kenilworthian/2009/12/review-of-zuke-em-expanded-edition.html" target="_blank"><i>Zuke 'Em</i></a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2012/03/future-of-colle.html" target="_blank"><i>Koltanowski Phoenix Attack</i></a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2010/06/review-of-alterman-gambit-guide-white.html" target="_blank"><i>Alterman's Gambit Guide: White Gambits</i></a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2009/05/review-of-sos-10.html" target="_blank"><i>SOS #10</i></a>, or <i><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2011/09/review-of-no-passion-for-chess-fashion.html" target="_blank">No Passion for Chess Fashion</a></i>), uncovering chess history (such as <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-dimock-theme-tournaments-and.html" target="_blank">The Dimock and Alrick Man Theme Tournaments</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2009/06/chicago-and-lake-hopatcong-1926.html" target="_blank">Lake Hopatcong 1923 and 1926</a>, or <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2006/08/fischer-castro-havana-1966-not.html" target="_blank">Fischer vs Castro</a>), or covering other topics (</span><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/03/bbcs-master-game.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">BBC's The Master Game</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2011/10/endings-with-bishops-of-same-color.html" target="_blank">Endings with Bishops of the Same Color</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2012/11/bishop-endings-revisited.html" target="_blank">Same-Colored Bishop Endings Again</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2011/02/big-clamp.html" target="_blank">The Big Clamp</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2009/12/chess-and-table-tennis.html" target="_blank">Chess and Table Tennis</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2009/10/paul-morphy-vs-mephistopheles.html" target="_blank">Morphy vs Mephistopheles</a>, </span><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2007/02/chess-and-evolutionary-theory_12.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Chess and Evolutionary Theory</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/07/cryptochessanalysis.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Cryptochessanalysis</a> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2009/09/chess-and-self-control.html" target="_blank">Chess and Self-Control</a>). And that barely scratches the surface of my 1,200 posts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Always trying to dive deep meant that I needed plenty of time to work on each article, and so posting became less frequent and more time consuming -- which is all the more reason I now have to set this uncompensated labor aside so that I can devote my energies to more socially rewarding work. I hate to reckon how many hours I have spent on the blog. But at least it has taught me that I <i>have that many hours</i>, despite my work and family commitments, if I decide to make good use of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The time commitment has always been the problem with chess. As Savielly Tartakower famously said, "All chess players should have a hobby" -- implying that playing chess is more like having a second career than a relaxing pastime. This might explain why so many chess players find that they have to give up chess completely to get anything done (following the lead of economists like <a href="http://en.chessbase.com/post/rogoff-on-che-addiction-and-why-he-had-to-give-up-the-game" target="_blank">Ken Rogoff</a> and <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2006/09/interview-with-former-youngest-new.html" target="_blank">Tyler Cowen</a> for instance). As <a href="http://www.chess.com/blog/billwall/sir-walter-scott-and-chess" target="_blank">chess enthusiast Sir Walter Scott</a> once wrote: “It was a shame to throw away upon mastering a mere game, however ingenious, the time which would suffice for the acquisition of a new language. Surely chess-playing is a sad waste of brains.” I wonder how many additional long novels Scott might have written had he succeeded in giving it up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It seems like chess has gotten more interesting than ever -- with a fascinating champion in Magnus Carlsen, amazing tournaments like the <a href="http://www.uschesschamps.com/sinquefield-cup" target="_blank">Sinquefield Cup</a> in St. Louis, and an incredible array of online sources for news, analysis, live coverage, and play...which makes it all the more important for me to put chess aside right now, before I get sucked in again! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So farewell.</span></div>
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Michael Goellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512012158305281566noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-11723050375835584422014-08-25T00:00:00.002-04:002014-08-25T00:00:57.960-04:00The Complete Alrick H. Man Vienna Gambit Theme Tournament<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have posted <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/alrick-man-Qf3.htm" target="_blank">analysis of Carlos Torre's two games</a> from the Alrick H. Man Vienna Gambit Theme Tournament with Spielmann's favorite line 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Qf3!? Analysis suggests that it is an interesting alternative to the standard 5.Nf3, if not quite as strong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As this completes my analysis of the Vienna Gambit and of the nine games from the tournament, I have also posted a <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/alrick-man-complete.htm" target="_blank">Complete Tournament Games and Vienna Gambit Analysis</a> (<a href="http://rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/kenilworth-pgn/alrick-man-complete.pgn" target="_blank">PGN</a>) which includes all of the games previously annotated plus two additional games. I hope my analysis is useful to those who would want to try out this interesting opening. </span><br />
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<strong>See also:</strong></span><br />
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<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-critical-line-of-vienna-gambit.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Critical Line of the Vienna Gambit</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/07/torre-and-marshall-victories-over.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Torre and Marshall Victories over the Vienna</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/06/vienna-gambit-traps-from-alrick-h-man.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Vienna Gambit Traps from the Alrick H. Man</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2011/01/alrick-h-man-vienna-gambit-theme.html" target="_blank">The Alrick H. Man Vienna Gambit Theme Tournament</a></span></li>
<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-dimock-theme-tournaments-and.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Dimock Theme Tournaments and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/vienna/torre-norwood.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Torre - Norwood, Alrick H. Man Theme Tournament</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/vienna-gambit-c29-bibliography.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Vienna Gambit (C29) Bibliography</span></a></li>
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Michael Goellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512012158305281566noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-71867682575661310172014-08-18T03:08:00.002-04:002014-08-18T03:08:47.880-04:00The Critical Line of the Vienna Gambit<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have annotated the game <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/torre-marshall-vienna.htm" target="_blank">Torre - Marshall, Alrick H. Man Vienna Gambit Theme 1925</a> (<a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/torre-marshall-vienna.htm" target="_blank">Java</a> / <a href="http://rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/kenilworth-pgn/torre-marshall-vienna.pgn" target="_blank">PGN</a>). It is fitting that this most important game from the Marshall Chess Club's theme tournament featured the most critical line of the Vienna Gambit: 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Nf3 Bc5! (see diagram).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This sharp line featured in the recent game <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1737324" target="_blank">Jobava - Mamedyarov, European Team Championship 2013</a> and was discussed in depth by Alexander Finkel in <i>New in Chess Yearbook </i>#110. As my notes show, White has good chances with the Vienna Gambit even against this dangerous line, which suggests that the opening remains viable with suitable preparation. In fact, late in the game (which was eventually drawn), Torre missed a winning move (see diagram below).</span><br />
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White to play and win after 31...Rd8</td></tr>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">See also:</span></strong><br />
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<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/07/torre-and-marshall-victories-over.html" target="_blank">Torre and Marshall Victories over the Vienna</a></li>
<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/06/vienna-gambit-traps-from-alrick-h-man.html" target="_blank">Vienna Gambit Traps from the Alrick H. Man</a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2011/01/alrick-h-man-vienna-gambit-theme.html" target="_blank">The Alrick H. Man Vienna Gambit Theme Tournament</a></span></li>
<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-dimock-theme-tournaments-and.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Dimock Theme Tournaments and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/vienna/torre-norwood.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Torre - Norwood, Alrick H. Man Theme Tournament</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/vienna-gambit-c29-bibliography.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Vienna Gambit (C29) Bibliography</span></a></li>
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Michael Goellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512012158305281566noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-67654048454620696312014-08-11T01:00:00.001-04:002014-08-11T01:00:45.784-04:0068th Annual NJ Open to Feature GMs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://njscf.org/68th-annual-new-jersey-open-championship/">The 68th Annual New Jersey Open</a> chess championship will be played Labor Day weekend, August 30-September 1, at the luxurious </span><a href="http://morristown.hyatt.com/en/hotel/home.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Morristown Hyatt</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">. This "heritage" event gets better every year, first with its move to historic Morristown last year and now with commitments from GM Joel Benjamin and GM John Fedorowicz to play in this year's event. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In his memoir, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2008/04/review-of-joel-benjamins-american.html"><i>American Grandmaster</i></a>, GM Benjamin himself complained that most tournaments are run like weekend gambling junkets rather than as potential tourism opportunities. With the move to Morristown, the organizers offer you a real family vacation with many potential tourist destinations. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Family fun in Morristown includes:</span><br />
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<li><a href="http://morrismuseum.org/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Morris Museum</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></li>
<li><a href="http://umakeglass.com/walkins/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Glassworks Studio</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.morrisparks.net/aspparks/ffmain.asp" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Fosterfields Living Historical Farm</a></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For more ideas, see </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the excellent </span><a href="http://morristourism.org/pdf/MCTB_Visitor_Guide.pdf" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Morris County Visitor's Guid</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://morristourism.org/pdf/MCTB_Visitor_Guide.pdf">e</a> and their <a href="http://www.morristourism.org/101_things_to_do.php#.U-hJtPldXTo">101</a></span><a href="http://www.morristourism.org/101_things_to_do.php#.U-hJtPldXTo" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Things to Do in Morris County</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Here are the tournament details:</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', -webkit-fantasy;">68th Annual New Jersey Open Championship</b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, fantasy;">30-SEPT. 1 OR AUG. 31-SEPT. 1 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, fantasy;">TROPHIES PLUS GRAND PRIX POINTS: 60 All Prizes Guaranteed!! 6-SS, 40/2 d5, SD/1. Headquarters Plaza Hyatt, 3 Headquarters Plaza, Morristown, NJ 07960. (973) 898-9100. A luxury hotel including spa. Free parking. For chess rate ($109/night) please use <a href="https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_ei_new&eventID=10891130">https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_ei_new&eventID=10891130</a> for online reservations. Short walk to train station with service to New York and Philadelphia (via Newark). 5 minute walk to many restaurants and shopping. In 4 sections, Open Section, Gold U1900, Silver U1600 and Booster U1300. With 3 day and 2 day schedules. Prizes: Open: $1000-$800-$600-$400-$200, Top Expert & A: $200 and trophy. Trophy to NJ Champion. Gold Section $500-$300-$100. Top B: $100 and trophy. Silver U1600: $500-$300-$100. Top D: $100 and trophy. Booster U1300: $500-$300-$100. Top E & F $100 & trophy. All Prizes Guaranteed. All sections get these trophies: Top 3, Top Senior over age 55, Top Under age 16, Top Under Age 13. Unrated may win first place in Open section only. EF Early $68 if paid by 8/27. EF onsite is $80. $50 for re-entry. 3 day reg at hotel: 9:00am-11:00am 8/30/2014. 2 day reg at hotel: Sunday, 8/31/2014 9-10am. Rounds: 3 day Saturday 12:00 & 6:30pm, Sunday 11am & 6pm, Monday 9am & 3:30pm. Rounds: 2 day 1-2-3(G/60 d5) Sunday 10:30am, 12:45pm and 3:00pm. 3 Day and 2 Day schedules merge in round 4. Entries to Noreen Davisson, 6 Red Barn Ln., Randolph, NJ 07869. Email: Noreen@deanofchess.com. Entries should include name, USCF ID and expirations, mailing address, email address, phone, section and schedule desired and entry fee.</span></div>
Michael Goellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512012158305281566noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-30093471773869667282014-08-06T10:42:00.002-04:002014-08-06T10:42:56.427-04:00Garry Kasparov Featured in NY Times Magazine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/garry-kasparov.html" target="_blank">Garry Kasparov, the Man Who Would Be King</a>" (August 6, 2014), Steven Lee Myers does a great job of laying out the complex political landscape faced by the former world champion as he seeks the presidency of FIDE and, ultimately, to support opposition to Putin. A must read for chess players.</span></div>
Michael Goellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512012158305281566noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-4765994983496839272014-08-04T21:52:00.002-04:002014-08-04T21:52:54.457-04:00Server Problem for Kenilworth CC Website<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The service that hosts the <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/" target="_blank">Kenilworth Chess Club</a> website has sent us a worrisome message that it "is conducting emergency maintenance on your shared webserver" due to "a hardware failure on the shared server running your website." They go on to say that "Standard recovery procedures were unsuccessful - We are currently recovering from the disaster recovery backups - Due to the large amount of data that is recovering, it is expected to take multiple days to complete - We will send a follow up message within 24 - 48 hours with all available information Thank you for your patience during this unscheduled maintenance." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Translation: best case scenario is our website will be down for up to two days; worst case scenario....I don't want to think about it.</span></div>
Michael Goellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512012158305281566noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-72179372300841925682014-08-04T00:03:00.003-04:002014-08-04T00:03:24.692-04:00On Vacation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am taking the week off from blogging. I will return next week.</span></div>
Michael Goellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512012158305281566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-71462389559334315612014-07-28T00:04:00.001-04:002014-07-28T00:05:09.276-04:00Torre and Marshall Victories over the Vienna<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have annotated <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/gustafson-vienna.htm" target="_blank">G. Gustafson's games against Carlos Torre and Frank Marshall</a> (<a href="http://rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/kenilworth-pgn/gustafson-vienna.pgn" target="_blank">PGN</a>) from the Alrick H. Man Vienna Gambit Theme Tournament of 1924-1925. The games demonstrate that Arthur Kaufmann's concept of playing Qe2 against most of Black's defenses following 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Nf3 is probably most accurate, as shown in <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/vienna/torre-norwood.htm" target="_blank">Torre - Norwood</a>, <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/smirka-torre-1925.htm" target="_blank">Smirka - Torre</a>, and Torre - Marshall (to be annotated soon) from the same event. Gustafson's less challenging 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.d3 against Carlos Torre and 5.Nf3 Bc5 6.d4 against Frank Marshall proved completely unsatisfactory.</span><br />
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Michael Goellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512012158305281566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-42034321129774760722014-07-21T00:02:00.001-04:002014-07-22T01:29:57.021-04:00Teaching Chess to Kids, Yet Again<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Every year, about this time, I teach chess to rising-9th grade students as part of the Rutgers Future Scholars summer program. It's a fun class and gives me a chance to think about teaching chess to beginners, about which I have written some things over the years. There are many <a href="http://www.susanpolgar.com/susan-polgar-foundation-benefits.html">benefits of learning chess</a> and it is a valuable tool for helping kids develop "<a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2009/09/chess-and-self-control.html" target="_blank">self control</a>" and the ability to "learn how to learn" (as Josh Waitzkin argues in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Learning-Journey-Performance/dp/0743277465" target="_blank"><i>The Art of Learning</i></a>). It also gives a teacher a chance to talk about how to make decisions after examining multiple variables, which is one of my main themes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have developed most of my techniques teaching chess to groups of young people.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> But I do not think a group setting is the best place to learn chess deeply, even if it does have the advantage of providing motivation through friendly competition, which drives some kids to pay attention and study. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But to get the most benefit from chess, it has to be studied independently, and kids who do that will gain more confidence for when they finally go to a serious chess club or begin to play in tournaments. I generally think it is a mistake for young people to play any rated chess until they have studied a bit on their own or with a coach.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With groups of kids just learning the game (or who only have a basic familiarity with the rules), I generally use the "one piece at a time" method of instruction, using mini-games to accompany each lesson. This way kids don't get bored and I can create an active, experiential learning environment where everyone can play as equals. The first lesson is always on pawns and ends with "<a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/media/Pawn_Battle_Strategies.pdf" target="_blank">Pawn Battle</a>" (<a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/media/Pawn_Battle_Strategies.pdf" target="_blank">handout</a> / <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2007/10/pawn-battle-rules-and-strategies.html" target="_blank">blog</a>), where the first player to reach the other side of the board to make a Queen wins. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I learned the basic game from Lev Alburt's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Comprehensive-Chess-Course-Lessons-Enlarged/dp/1889323233" target="_blank">Comprehensive Chess Course</a> (where he says it is an old Russian teaching game), but I modified it so that if <i>either</i> player has no moves it is <i>stalemate</i>, which is a great way to teach kids the stalemate concept. I also use the game to teach them the power of </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">zugzwang</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and all sorts of pawn theory (from pawn majorities to backward pawns), as you can see described in my </span><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/media/Pawn_Battle_Strategies.pdf" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">handout</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. The big advantage of starting with pawns, if you do it right, is they can learn some tough rules like <i>en passant</i> and stalemate and concepts like <i>zugzwang </i>and passed pawns right from the get-go. I find it especially useful for teaching <i>en passant</i> in a way that sticks with them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our first lesson was on Friday, when I saw one of the games reach the position in the diagram at the top of the page after 1.d4 d6 2.d5 e6 3.e4 c5(?). The player of the White pieces quickly showed off his new knowledge of<i> en passant</i> by capturing with 4.dxc6(?) -- and I was glad to see someone had fully understood<i> en passant </i>on day one! But I noticed something else and later used the game to illustrate the power of the "breakthrough sacrifice." I think this might be the quickest way you can win at Pawn Battle, with the powerhouse move 4.e5! (not something I'd expect a student to find on day one). No matter what Black does, White is going to get a pawn to the queening square at d8 and win the game, e.g.: 4.e5! dxe5 5.d6 etc. or 4...exd5 5.exd6 etc. It made for a nice lesson -- including a reminder about how <i>en passant </i>works and how you are not required to capture (like in checkers).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Later today, in our second meeting, I will follow up pawn battle with a game I call "<a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2012/05/anteater-and-other-instructional-games.html" target="_blank">Anteater</a>" (<a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/media/Anteater.pdf" target="_blank">download PDF</a>), which teaches the relative value of the pieces and the concept of time vs. material, and another I call "</span><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2007/10/magnetic-sumo-kings.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Magnetic Sumo Kings</a>"<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(</span><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/media/Magnetic-Sumo-Kings.pdf" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">download PDF</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">), which teaches the opposition.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> By Tuesday or Wednesday, though, I expect these older kids will lose patience with focusing on one piece at a time, so I will have to introduce the other pieces, teach them about checkmate, and then just let them play "real chess" -- following up by looking at a master game each day with them. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They will play and I will have them record their games so we can look at them too. All along the way, I will also use their games to teach them lessons, trying to address their "<a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2007/03/patterns-of-error.html" target="_blank">patterns of error</a>." </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have written about my first year of teaching like this on my blog:</span><br />
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<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2005/09/teaching-chess-to-kids.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Teaching Chess to Kids, Part One</a></li>
<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2005/10/teaching-chess-to-kids-part-ii.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Teaching Chess to Kids, Part Two</a></li>
<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2005/10/teaching-chess-to-kids-part-iii.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Teaching Chess to Kids, Part Three</a></li>
<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2005/12/teaching-chess-to-kids-part-iv.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Teaching Chess to Kids, Part Four</a></li>
<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2007/01/teaching-chess-to-kids-part-v.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Teaching Chess to Kids, Part Five</a></li>
<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2007/02/teaching-chess-to-kids-part-vi.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Teaching Chess to Kids, Part Six</a></li>
<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2007/02/teaching-chess-to-kids-part-vii.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Teaching Chess to Kids, Part Seven</a></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Those looking to employ some of these techniques to teach chess to their own children might check out the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Chess-Childs-Play-Teaching-Techniques/dp/193627731X" target="_blank">Chess Is Child's Play: Teaching Techniques that Work</a>, which also uses an "active learning" approach with similar mini-games. This would be the ideal book for a parent relatively new to chess who wants to get his or her child interested in playing. It would make a good guide for those rainy summer days, which are ideal for getting young kids started with chess.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can also find free online lesson plans, including <a href="http://www.uiltexas.org/files/capitalconference/Randolph-TeachingChesstheEasyFunWaywithMiniGames.pdf" target="_blank">Teaching Chess the Easy and Fun Way with Mini-Games</a>, which looks especially appropriate for early elementary kids and features some creative mini-games that are new to me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Technology has definitely sped up the process by which kids can learn the game and practice getting better at it, and computer chess instruction has put t</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">he mini-games approach to good use. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Over the past eight years, my own children have tried out practically every chess instruction software I could find -- beginning with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Learn-Play-Chess-Fritz-Chesster/dp/B00604IF5C/" target="_blank">ChessBase's Fritz & Chesster</a> (all three volumes, now combined), which does the best job of using the mini-game concept to help kids master the pieces and basic tactics. Other programs my kids tried include <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lego-Chess-Pc/dp/B000F6LZ94" target="_blank">Lego Chess</a> (probably discontinued -- and a bit repetitive), <a href="http://www.dinosaurchess.com/website/default.shtml" target="_blank">Dinosaur Chess</a> (excellent and the one my daughter liked best), and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Majestic-Chess-PC/dp/B000083JXC" target="_blank">Majestic Chess</a> (which my son liked best since it creates a mysterious medieval atmosphere). When the kids were using a DS (which they have since abandoned), I picked up <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Learn-Chess-Nintendo-DS/dp/B001NCJQIQ/" target="_blank">Learn Chess</a> for that, which is very good and has a story featuring ghosts and pirates. I think Fritz and Chesster made it to DS eventually, but we never tried it and I cannot find a good link (maybe it was discontinued). All of the programs use the mini-games technique to some extent to give kids practice in using the pieces and learning chess concepts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Though modern technology has made it more accessible, the mini-game concept is really the classic way of teaching the game, beginning with "The Knight's Tour" puzzle, which</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> is sort of the Rubik's Cube of chess. In the 19th Century, masters used to give exhibitions that would include a demonstration of the Knight's Tour from whatever square the audience named. It is an excellent exercise for young people to practice, and some used to play it with 64 pennies by the side of the board, laying a penny on each square that has already been traversed. You could practice by giving yourself 80 pennies and work to reduce the number of pennies you "spend" each time. However, this classic puzzle works most efficiently online and I found a couple fun versions:</span><br />
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<li><a href="http://www.yukyuk.com/games_downloads/online_chess/knight_game/knight_game.php" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Renegade Knight</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> -- the most fun version of the puzzle that I came across. </span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.brainmetrix.com/chess_knight.htm" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Free Chess Game - Chess Knight</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> -- this version allows you to cross over the same squares with the goal of reducing the number of turns it takes you to cover every square.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In searching for those Knight's Tour games, I also stumbled upon the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.troyis.com/">Troyis Online Puzzle Game</a>, which also looks like a</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> fun resource for helping kids get better at using the Knight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There are a tremendous number of great online tools for learning chess, and a kid who is looking for some amusement might be directed to videos </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">on YouTube, <a href="http://chesslecture.com/">Chesslecture.com</a>, <a href="http://chess.com/">Chess.com</a>, and many other sites -- and to playing over master games at</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <a href="http://chessgames.com/">Chessgames.com</a>. The kids I am teaching now, though, prefer the social aspects of the game and are not likely to become serious students or spend time looking at chess online (though many of my former students definitely <i>play</i> online). I think the game still has a lot to teach even those who try it out casually. And you never know: once they learn, and know how to read chess notation, they might just end up reading a chess book some day.</span></div>
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Michael Goellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512012158305281566noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-85452208472489959612014-07-14T03:59:00.000-04:002014-07-14T03:59:45.945-04:00Makagonov King's Indian with h3<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Classical King's Indian with h3 </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">has gained a wide following, mostly because of its flexibility.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> It is commonly called the Makagonov System (E71) when White plays 5.h3 and the Krasenkow System when White plays 5.Nf3 followed by 6.h3 (though that was actually Vladimir Makagonov's preferred move order!) -- but I have not made a distinction between the two here as transpositions are common. It is worth noting that when </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Martin Breutigam produced his ChessBase CD in 2002, he complained about having a paucity of source material to draw upon. Times have certainly changed, for it seems that the line is now completely mainstream and much has been written about it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I think the lines with h3 for White are very worth exploring, with a lot of room for creativity. In some ways, h3 seems like a "high class waiting move," with White waiting for Black to commit himself before deciding on his plan. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am most interested in the line from the Black perspective, where I tend to favor an early Na6, which is Black's most flexible rejoinder. An interesting option against the 5.h3 move order, though, is a <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/03/samisch-kings-indian-byrne-system-e80.html" target="_blank">Byrne approach</a> with a6, c6, and b5, as seen in the game <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1553349">Suba - Golubev, Predeal 1997</a>, though this idea is not much discussed in the literature. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can find many videos with the line on YouTube, most from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/kingscrusher">kingscrusher</a> (as Black) and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/Chessexplained">ChessExplained</a> (typically as White). Below I offer only a sample of their countless videos with the line, along with those of other players. Game collections can be found at <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessopening?eco=E71">Chessgames.com</a>, <a href="http://www.365chess.com/eco/E71_King's_Indian_Makagonov_system_(5.h3)">365Chess</a>, <a href="http://www.chess.com/opening/eco/E71_Kings_Indian_Defense_Makagonov_Variation">Chess.com</a>, <a href="http://www.redhotpawn.com/chess/grandmaster-games/index.php?openingid=1963">Red Hot Pawn</a>, and <a href="http://www.chessage.com/database/opbrowser.php/eco/E71">Chess Age</a>. Selective game collections by <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1019079" target="_blank">DHW</a> and <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1010534" target="_blank">MadBishop</a> are also useful. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The following materials are listed in reverse chronological order. As always, I welcome additions and suggestions from readers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Modernized-The-Kings-Indian-Defense/dp/0985628103">Modernized: The King's Indian</a> by Dejan Bojkov, Metropolitan Chess Publishing (2014): 237-271. See <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/04/review-of-dejan-bojkovs-modernized.html">my complete review of this book</a> in an earlier post. Chapter 5 focuses on what Bojkov calls the "Bagirov Line," with 5.Nf3 and 6.h3, which others call the Krasenkow. Bojkov recommends lines with Na6 followed by e5. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sample games include Parligras - Fressinet, Plovdiv 2012; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1532902" target="_blank">Avrukh - Milov, Gibraltar 2009</a>; and <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/3169536">Milanovic - Bojkov, Kraljevo 2011</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Full Board War!" by David Vigorito, <a href="http://chesslecture.com/">Chesslecture.com</a> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(Feb. 14, 2014). An 18-minute video featuring P. Svidler vs. H. Nakamuraplaying the King's Indian: Makagonov System (E71). By subscription only.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.onlinechesslessons.net/2014/02/20/winning-with-kings-indian-defense-gm-simon-williams/#.U8FzZ_ldXTo">Winning with the King's Indian</a> by GM Simon Williams, OnlineChessLessons (2014).<br />The video is previewed below -- part of the "<a href="http://www.onlinechesslessons.net/shop/crash-test-using-initiative-gm-simon-williams/#.U8FzVPldXTo">crash test chess</a>" series. Features the Krasenkow variation in the game <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1730803">Korchnoi - Williams 2009</a>, which opened with 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. h3 e5 7. d5 a5 8. Bg5 h6 9. Be3 Na6.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://d4chessnews.blogspot.com/2013/03/kings-indian-h3bg5-averbakh-variant.html">King's Indian h3+Bg5 Averbakh Variant-TWIC 958</a> by Michael Yip, d4ChessNews (2013). Analyzes the game <a href="http://chess-db.com/public/game.jsp?id=14502879.1213610.174448128">Kozul - Posedaru, Karpos Open - Skopje 2013</a> with a nice White victory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Strategic-Chess-Opening-Repertoire-White/dp/1906454302">A Strategic Chess Opening Repertoire for White</a> by John Watson, Gambit (2012): 148-177. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Aggressive Queen Pawn Games, Part 1" by IM Bill Paschall, Chesslecture.com (August 27, 2012). </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A 27-minute video that discusses the game <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1329023" target="_blank">Alexander Beliavsky vs. Aleksa Strikovich</a> and the King's Indian Defense: Makagonov Variation (E71). By subscription only.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dejan Bojkov, <a href="http://www.wholesalechess.com/shop/chess-software/fritz-software/fritz-trainer-openings/fritz-trainer-bojkov-a-modern-way-to-play-the-kings-indian" target="_blank">A Modern Way to Play the King's Indian ChessBase DVD</a> (2011). </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A really excellent video, which does not stop at covering Na6 against the Classical but covers this modern, flexible approach against most lines that White can throw at you, from the Four Pawn Attack to h3 lines. Among the games discussed are </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1532902" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Avrukh - Milov, Gibraltar 2009</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"King's Indian Defence E90, Part 3," </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">by Mikhail Krasenkow,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <a href="http://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/chessbase_magazin_134">ChessBase Magazine 134</a> (2009). Examines the line </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.h3 e5 7.d5 a5.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"King's Indian Defence E90, Part 2," </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">by Mikhail Krasenkow, <a href="http://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/chessbase_magazin_133">ChessBase Magazine 133</a> (2009). Examines the line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.h3 e5 7.d5.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"King's Indian Defence E90, Part 1," </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">by Mikhail Krasenkow, <a href="http://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/chessbase_magazin_132">ChessBase Magazine 132</a> (2009). Introduces the Krasenkow Variation, with </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.h3.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Magnus Madness; Part II; Avoiding Main Lines in China" by David Vigorito, Chesslecture.com (Oct. 5, 2009). A 25-minute video presentation on <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1557699" target="_blank">Magnus Carlsen vs. Veselin Topalov (2009)</a> featuring the King's Indian Defense: Normal Variation, Rare Defenses (E90).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Kings-Indian-Complete-Black-Repertoire/dp/9548782715">The King's Indian: A Complete Black Repertoire</a> by Victor Bologan Chess Stars (2009). This is a solid opening repertoire book. <a href="http://chessnook.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/bologan-victor-the-kings-indian-2009.pdf" target="_blank">Available online</a>? Sample games mentioned in the analysis include <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1048312" target="_blank">Bareev - Gelfand, Linares 1994</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=1149620" target="_blank">Guigonis - Degraeve, Montpellier 1997</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2064620" target="_blank">Dinstuhl - Sieglen, Bad Godesberg 1991</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1070488" target="_blank">Hansen - Kasparov, Svendborg 1990</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2604176" target="_blank">Akopian - Hernandez, Linares 1996</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1493917" target="_blank">Karpov - Golubev, Odessa 2008</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/398501" target="_blank">Karpov - Kasimdzhanov, Spain 2007</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1204717" target="_blank">Markus - Kotronias, Vrnjacka Banja 2006</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1204708" target="_blank">Lutsko - Golubev, Odessa 2008</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1172707" target="_blank">Gyimesi - Ivanov, Andorra 2001</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1489087" target="_blank">Jansen - Reinderman, Hilversum 2008</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1203656" target="_blank">Beliavsky - Kozul, Portoroz 1997</a>; </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1302244" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Kasparov - Kramnik, Las Palmas 1996</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/402470">Andreikin - Cabezas, Kallithea 2008</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1421672" target="_blank">San Segundo - Shirov, Madrid 1997</a> and others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Beat-Kid-Three-Against-Indian/dp/1906552150">Beat the KID: Three Lines against the King's Indian</a> by Jan Markos, Quality Chess (2009).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/BeattheKID-excerpt.pdf">Excerpt</a> at the Quality Chess site. Reviewed by <a href="http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen118.pdf">Carsten Hansen</a>, Calls the line with 5.Nf3 and 6.h3 the Krasenkow System. Some games <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1014786">collected at Chessgames.com</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Ideas in the King's Indian for Black, Lines with 5.h3" by IM David Vigorito, <a href="http://chesslecture.com/" target="_blank">Chesslecture.com</a> (July 16, 2007). A 22-minute video featuring the Advanced King's Indian (E71). By subscription only.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Beating-Fianchetto-Defences-Efstratios-Grivas/dp/1904600484">Beating the Fianchetto Defences</a> by Efstratios Grivas, Gambit (2006): 139-188. Reviewed by <a href="http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen89.pdf">Carsten Hansen</a>, and see <a href="http://www.gambitbooks.com/books/Beating_the_Fianchetto_Defences.html">publishers website</a> for info and sample. Recommends the Krasenkow line with 5.Nf3 and 6.h3.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Kings-Indian-Battle-Plans-Martin/dp/1888710004" target="_blank">King's Indian Battle Plans</a> by Andrew Martin, Thinker's Press (2004): 217-229. A very useful book, which offers a wide range of ideas for Black against each White system. It features a whole chapter devoted to the Makagonov System, with ten sample games, including <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1358101" target="_blank">Krasenkow - Sutovsky, Pamplona 1998</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=887863" target="_blank">Barsov - Sutovsky, York 1999</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1279224" target="_blank">Krasenkow - Smirin, Belgrade 1999</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/904258" target="_blank">Antic - Velimirovic, Subotica 2000</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1279207" target="_blank">Gelfand - Gdanski, Belgrade 1999</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/752514" target="_blank">Babula - Kiik, Istanbul 2000</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2579957" target="_blank">Epishin - Bischoff, Bundesliga 2002</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=369250" target="_blank">Barsov - Gallagher, Calcutta 2001</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1202430" target="_blank">Divljan - Sahovic, Belgrade 2001</a>; and <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1204374" target="_blank">Krasenkow - Antoniewski, Glogow POL 2001</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Offbeat-Kings-Indian-Defences/dp/1857443616">Offbeat King's Indian</a> by Krzysztoff Panczyk and Jacek Ilczuk, Everyman (2004): 70-102. Focuses on the Makogonov System, where White plays 5.h3 and delays deployment of the Ng1, which typically develops by Nge2. The authors cover a wide range of approaches for Black, and in doing so presents a good overview of the Makagonov System for White as well in some fairly balanced coverage. Games include <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1084981" target="_blank">Nikolaidis - Kotronias, Peristeri 1996</a>; <a href="http://www.redhotpawn.com/chess/grandmaster-games/viewmastergame.php?pgnid=4635&subject=Vladimir_Akopian_vs_Serik_Temirbaev" target="_blank">Akopian - Temirbaev, Uzbgorod 1988</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1108650" target="_blank">Knaak - Piket, Hamburg 1991</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1301191" target="_blank">Mikhaevski - Timoschenko, Paris 2000</a>; Rogozenko - Ardeleanu, Brasov 1998; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1103427">Suba - Nunn, Dubai 1986</a>; Yermolinsky - Barcenilla, Chicago 2000; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1204331" target="_blank">Chernin - Cebalo, Bled 1999</a>; <a href="http://chess-db.com/public/game.jsp?id=702218.2804832.174437888">Gyimesi - Ilia Botvinnik, Tel Aviv 2001</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1203546">Suba - Motylev, Eforie Nord 2000</a>; Psakhis - Hrbolka, Pardubice 2002; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1203652" target="_blank">Yermolinsky - Radjabov, Hyderabad 2002</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1060544" target="_blank">Ivanchuk - Kasparov, Novgorod 1994</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1203555" target="_blank">Bazhin - Fedorov, Kstovo 1994</a>; and <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1302244" target="_blank">Kasparov - Kramnik, Las Palmas 1996</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/konigsindisch_mit_h3" target="_blank">King's Indian with h3 CD</a> by Martin Breutigam, ChessBase (2002).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Reviewed by <a href="http://www.theweekinchess.com/john-watson-reviews/one-good-one-bad-part-two" target="_blank">John Watson</a>, <a href="http://seagaard.dk/review/eng/sw_opening/cb_kings_indian_with_h3.asp?KATID=SW&ID=SW-Opening" target="_blank">Seagaard</a>, and <a href="http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen43.pdf" target="_blank">Carsten Hansen</a> and generally well received. More from the White perspective and a little dated now, especially because the CD seems to have encouraged a lot more games with the line.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Replete with Ideas: King's Indian Romanian Variation 5.h3" by Leon Pliester, <i>New in Chess Yearbook</i> 60 (2001).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"KI Romanian Variation 5.h3" by Alexander Beliavsky, <i>New in Chess Yearbook</i> 43 (1997) .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Unconventional-Kings-Indian-John-Watson/dp/1843821508" target="_blank">The Unconventional King's Indian</a> by John Watson, Hypermodern Press (1997): 47-90. This book is available as a reprint from Hardinge Simpole. The chapter on h3 systems was quite groundbreaking, and clearly Watson considered lines with h3 among the most complex and interesting in the King's Indian due to their flexibility for both players. Watson outlines the many options and mentions many games, including <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/402680" target="_blank">Greenshpun - Yurtaev 1988</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1204586" target="_blank">Simic - Cvitan, Yugoslavia 1981</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2604174" target="_blank">Sokolov - van Wely, Groningen 1994</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1108650" target="_blank">Knaak - Piket, Hamburg 1991</a>; Minev - Watson, Las Vegas 1984; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1087979" target="_blank">Paunovic - Kupreichik, Yugoslavia 1992</a>; Soln - Shaked, Biel 1995; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1292812" target="_blank">Averbach - Bondarevsky, USSR 1951</a>; </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1070488" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Hansen - Kasparov, Svendborg 1990</a>; <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1297470" target="_blank">Ibragimov - Kruppa, USSR 1991 </a>among many others in this very detailed and rich chapter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Beating-The-Anti-Kings-Indians-Gallagher/dp/1879479362">Beating the Anti-King's Indians</a> by Joe Gallagher, ICE / Batsford (1996): 31-52. Recommends a system build around an early Na6 followed by e5, with some exceptions. Main annotated games include <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1087979" target="_blank">Paunovic - Kupreichik, Yugoslavia 1992</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/364305">Chernin - Polgar, New Delhi 1990</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1202354" target="_blank">Raetsky - Gallagher, Hastings 1992-1993</a>; and <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1162677" target="_blank">Alexandrov - Zakharevich, St. Petersburg 1994</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Romanian Variation 5.h3" by Igor Glek, <i>New in Chess Yearbook </i>36 (1995).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"KI Romanian Variation 5.h3" by Mihail Marin, <i>New in Chess Yearbook </i>34 (1994).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Kasparov-Kings-Indian-Batsford-Library/dp/080502946X" target="_blank">Kasparov on the King's Indian</a> by Gary Kasparov with Raymond Keene, Owl / Henry Holt / Batsford (1993): 72-78. Gives many of Kasparov's games vs. this system, up until 1992, but focuses on the games <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1069989" target="_blank">Kavalek - Kasparov, Bugojno 1982</a> (annotated by <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/04/AR2005090401309.html" target="_blank">Kavalek in 2005</a> and <a href="http://en.chessbase.com/post/kavalek-in-huffington-chasing-che-legacy-090313" target="_blank">2013</a>) and </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1070488" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Hansen - Kasparov, Svendborg 1990</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The King's Indian for the Attacking Player by Graham Burgess, Owl / Henry Holt / Batsford (1993): 21-30. This is a classic repertoire book, which was quite cutting edge at the time for recommending lines with Na6. The recommendations against h3 are no exception. Sample games include <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1108650" target="_blank">Knaak - Piket, Hamburg 1991</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1035061" target="_blank">Bronstein - Nijboer, Wijk aan Zee 1992</a>; and </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1070488" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Hansen - Kasparov, Svendborg 1990</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As always, I welcome additions and corrections from readers.</span><br />
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Michael Goellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512012158305281566noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-6860618171602438782014-07-07T01:39:00.001-04:002019-01-30T09:41:01.070-05:00Cryptochessanalysis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"If you want new ideas, read old books..." -- Ivan Pavlov</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have been unconsciously devoted to <i>cryptochessanalysis </i>for many years. Only recently did I recognize the depths of my delusion. Like <a href="https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Cryptanalysis.html" target="_blank">cryptanalysis</a>, the goal of </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">cryptochessanalysis</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> is to crack a code to reveal hidden knowledge -- only instead of revealing secret information, it is directed specifically at understanding the secrets of chess openings. Crytochessanalysis often begins by trying to decipher the hidden intentions and ideas of GMs and other strong players, but its true motive is more quixotic: to crack the code of chess itself by examining hints from those who have most deeply plumbed its mysteries -- those imagined to be, like the Priory of Sion, the keepers of the Grail. I admit it is a crazy notion, at least once you carefully examine it, knowing full well that even GMs can fumble their way through theory, or construct elaborate magic acts to perform at the board which are revealed as hollow once you know the trick. But I would not be surprised if there were others like me who have gotten caught up in a similar quest for truth in the opening. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Cryptochessanalysis is unconsciously motivated by a fancifully Gothic story about chess, one that imagines our immortal game to be like <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382625/plotsummary" target="_blank">The Da Vinci Code</a>, where "the truth" about a particular opening line might be discovered through the close observation and study of games by its high priests. Or, in true Gothic fashion, "the truth" is uncovered by studying games or analysis </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">unearthed from the crypt of forgotten chess ideas, which sometimes come back to life like the Mummy released from its tomb</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I think it was my study of the <a href="http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/urusov/gambit/" target="_blank">Urusov Gambit</a> that started me down the <i>cryptochessanalytic</i> path. Tracking down the games of the <a href="http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/urusov/dimock/index.html" target="_blank">Dimock Theme Tournament of 1924</a> in old newspapers, I felt like I was on the trail of true knowledge about the opening. For example, when I first played over the game <a href="http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/urusov/dimock/games/ct-as.htm" target="_blank">Torre-Santasiere</a> (<i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</i>, <a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20a%20Grayscale%20-%203034.pdf#xml=http://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=fffffffff9d6bebe&DocId=8696431&Index=Z%3a%5cIndex%20O%2dG%2dT%2dS&HitCount=95&hits=20+21+22+25+26+27+28+2d+2e+30+31+32+45+48+4d+58+5b+5c+86+8c+bf+ef+102+126+164+167+175+216+228+229+22e+28b+2bd+2ca+2e0+2ed+30e+3b4+4d6+52c+540+591+5b1+5bc+5bf+5c0+5c2+5f7+632+674+774+7ea+7ed+7ee+81a+820+a8c+a9f+c20+c61+c9c+ed0+ef3+f4a+1076+1083+1117+1190+1372+152c+15a8+17ae+17b5+17c7+17d6+1834+1855+1872+18b8+1bc4+1cc6+1e52+1f71+1f74+20e9+20eb+20ec+20ed+20ef+20f0+20f1+20f3+20f5+20f6+20f7+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf" target="_blank">October 9, 1924</a>), with its exciting Exchange sac 12.Rxe7, I knew this was a key tactic in the position. Torre's exact move order did not quite hold up to silicon-supported scrutiny, but he was definitely onto something. One possible improvement on the line begins with 12.Qh4!? to be followed by Rxe7. Later, correspondence player Max Burkett tried 12.h4!? -- one idea being 12...h6?! 13.Rxe7! hxg5?! 14.hxg5!! with a winning attack for White. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was amused when Tim Harding, in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060810015811/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kibitz83.pdf" target="_blank">reviewing my analysis</a>, wondered why Gabriel Velasco had overlooked this fascinating game in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Life-Games-Carlos-Torre/dp/1888690070" target="_blank">his book on Torre</a>. But the game had been completely forgotten until I dug it up. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And it was this game from the crypt, previously unknown to modern chess analysts, that pointed the way for future exploration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Similar revelations came from an old piece of analysis by Al Horowitz, which led to my article on </span><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/summer05/horowitz-lange.htm" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">The Modern Horowitz Variation of the Max Lange Attack</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (</span><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2005/09/modern-horowitz-variation-of-max-lange.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">blog</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">/</span><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/summer05/horowitz-lange.htm" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">games</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">/</span><a href="http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/kenilworth-pgn/summer05/horowitz-lange.pgn" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">pgn</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This piece attracted significant attention, getting mentioned in <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/kenilworthian/2005/12/my-max-lange-analysis-cited-in.html" target="_blank">Kaissiber #22</a> and in <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Weapons-Dazzle-Opponents-Everyman/dp/1857445422" target="_blank">Dangerous Weapons 1.e4 e5</a></i>. But all I did was use Fritz to take a close look at an old article, and provide the world with a <a href="http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/kenilworth-pgn/summer05/horowitz-lange.pgn" target="_blank">PGN</a> file so they could carry the analysis further themselves. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Other adventures spelunking through the crypt of chess history have led me to explore </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/articles/panther/" target="_blank">The Panther</a> and</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2011/02/big-clamp.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">The Big Clamp</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. In every case, it was my unconscious belief that new ideas were to be found in old books and old games that motivated my inquiries.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Not all cryptochessanalysis seeks its ideas in the past. Sometimes my explorations begin with a puzzling game by a strong player, whom I suspect has done significant analysis before revealing his novel idea. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Back in 2006, I stumbled upon a fascinating game in the Advance Variation of the Caro-Kann that began 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.h4 h5 5.Bg5 Qb6 6.Bd3! Bxd3 7.Qxd3 Qxb2 8.e6!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I knew instantly that I had found my latest subject for cryptochessanalysis. After some study, I finally wrote about the game in early 2007 in an article titled <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2007/caro-adv-h4.htm" target="_blank">The Caveman Caro-Kann: Advance Variation with 4.h4</a> (</span><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2007/01/caveman-caro-kann-advance-variation.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">blog</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">/</span><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2007/caro-adv-h4.htm" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">game</a>/<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/kenilworth-pgn/caro-adv-h4.pgn" target="_blank">pgn</a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">). </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I played and analyzed the line for several years after that, collecting every published game with it. There were clearly other cryptochessanalysts who had been drawn to the idea. Eventually I put together all of my analysis in </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2013/complete-caveman.htm" target="_blank">The Complete Caveman Caro-Kann</a> (<a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-complete-caveman-caro-kann_20.html" target="_blank">blog</a>/<a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2013/complete-caveman.htm" target="_blank">game</a>/<a href="http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/kenilworth-pgn/complete-caveman.pgn" target="_blank">pgn</a>). Even as I published that article, however, I wondered if I had not brought an end to the line in doing so. Sometimes it is the complete mystery of an opening that makes it most interesting for new explorers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One of my most elaborate adventures in cryptochessanalysis was in writing about what I called the "Guseinov Gambit," following the games of Gad Guseinov in two articles: <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2006/anti-paulsen.htm" target="_blank">Guseinov's Anti-Paulsen</a> (<a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2006/12/two-knights-sicilian-part-four.html" target="_blank">blog</a>/<a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2006/anti-paulsen.htm" target="_blank">game</a>/<a href="http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/kenilworth-pgn/anti-paulsen-2006.pgn" target="_blank">pgn</a>) and <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2007/anti-paulsen.htm" target="_blank">Guseinov's Gambit Refuted?</a> (<a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2007/08/richard-pallisers-fighting-anti.html" target="_blank">blog</a>/<a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2007/anti-paulsen.htm" target="_blank">game</a>/<a href="http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/kenilworth-pgn/anti-paulsen.pgn" target="_blank">pgn</a>). These explorations were inspired by Guseinov's discussion of his ideas in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061102170140/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/misha36.pdf" target="_blank">an interview with Misha Savinov at ChessCafe</a>. After many hours of deep analysis, it was I who most doubted the line in the end, especially after I tracked down GM Guseinov's games on ICC (played as "GGuseinov") and found that he did not have a good answer to opponents playing the remedy suggested by Richard Palliser in <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Anti-Sicilians-Combating-Closed-Everyman/dp/1857445201" target="_blank">Fighting the Anti-Sicilians</a> </i>(Everyman 2007). The veil had begun to slip.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> However, even though I came to a rather negative conclusion in the second article, I continued to play the line with great success and have yet to have an opponent play the critical line revealed by my analysis. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If I ever do, I have something prepared....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Other cryptochessanalytic explorations inspired by mysterious novelties led to </span><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2010/03/left-hook-grand-prix-videos.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">The Left Hook Grand Prix </a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and </span><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2007/werewolf.htm" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">The Werewolf</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (<a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2007/02/frankenstein-and-dracula-meet-werewolf.html" target="_blank">blog</a>/</span><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2007/werewolf.htm" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">game</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">/</span><a href="http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/kenilworth-pgn/werewolf.pgn" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">pgn</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">), both of which began with mere curiosity as to why strong players were playing strange moves. It often turns out that these lines do not completely hold water -- there is always a leak somewhere. But that does not mean they cannot lead to interesting chess!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In 2008, I analyzed the game <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2008/04/weeramantry-bisguier-usate-2008.html" target="_blank">Weeramantry--Bisguier, US Amateur Team 2008</a>, which showed me that it was possible to play a fianchetto system in the open games. After all, if Bisguier could get away with it against strong opposition, then I certainly could against weaker players. This led to articles on <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2009/open-g6-pt1.htm" target="_blank">A Black Fianchetto System in the Open Games, Part I</a> and <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2009/open-g6-pt2.htm" target="_blank">Part II</a>. It remains an unfinished project. But now I know that the most interesting ciphers are the ones we have not solved.</span></div>
Michael Goellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512012158305281566noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-19269100387923496452014-06-30T00:50:00.003-04:002014-06-30T00:50:34.010-04:00A Missed Hook and Ladder Trick<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I visited the Kenilworth Chess Club on Thursday where I participated in <a href="http://kcctournaments.blogspot.com/2014/06/summer-tourney-round-4.html" target="_blank">round 4</a> of the Summer Tournament. I have <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/lewis.htm" target="_blank">annotated my game with Dr. Richard Lewis</a>, whom I have known since the 1980s when he was president of the Westfield Chess Club for many years. Our game was played quickly and was not one of our best, but it had a very amusing ending as Dr. Lewis resigned in a position where he could have won material using a tactic that LM Dana Mackenzie has called "the hook and ladder trick" (see diagram). The tactic was pointed out immediately after our game by Kevin Chen on the next board.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The name "hook and ladder" describes the image that the tactic presents, as Black's Queen can be imagined as standing at the top of the precarious "ladder" of the Rook's support from d8. White can use the "hook" of 28.Re8+! to pull the "ladder" out from under the Queen and win material (using a form of deflection). If Black's f-pawn were at f7, then Re8+ would absolutely force 28...Rxe8 dropping the Queen to 29.Qxd4. Here, though, Black can escape the check with 28...Kf7 but White still wins material after 29.Qxd4 Rxd4 30.Rxc8. The game would be rather drawish after 30...Rxa4, but certainly White would have gone from resigning in an apparently lost position to having the only chances to win! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In his 2006 video lecture titled "The Hook and Ladder Trick" at <a href="http://chesslecture.com/">ChessLecture.com</a> (members only), LM Mackenzie laid out the motif very thoroughly, beginning with the game <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1434844" target="_blank">Aronian - Svidler, Tal Memorial 2006</a>, which offers a very high level illustration. Mackenzie </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">later published his idea as an article in </span><a href="http://www.uschess.org/content/view/213/81/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank"><i>Chess Life</i> (July 2007)</a> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and </span><a href="http://www.danamackenzie.com/blog/?p=2933" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">recently revisited the theme at his blog</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, discussing the end of one of the <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1755290" target="_blank">Kamsky - Akobian</a> tie-break games from the recent US Championship. Those original contributions have since been copied by others, including in an </span><a href="http://www.chesskid.com/article/view/hook-and-ladder" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">article for kids by Jessica Prescott at Chesskid.com</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and a nice online video discussing the Aronian - Svidler game.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Missing that trick at the end of my game has made me want to spend a little more time on tactical training, so I was glad to see that LM Mackenzie recently came out with a series of video lessons, drawn from his ChessLecture.com videos, titled <a href="http://www.onlinechesslessons.net/2014/06/18/tactical-motifs-1-lm-dana-mackenzie/#.U7DJWvldXTo" target="_blank">Tactical Motifs 1</a>. You can find extensive previews of this video online and it looks like a worthwhile investment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thursday night at the Kenilworth Chess Club was also of interest as I got to meet IM Leslie Leow, who has lived very near to the Kenilworth Chess Club for many years but never visited the club before. He has very generously donated his collection of Informants 1-50 to the club, which we have very happily added to the club library.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">IM Leow played some remarkable games during his chess career (<a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/player/119185" target="_blank">Chess Tempo seems to have the best collection</a>), which stretched from the late 60s to early 90s and included winning the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singaporean_Chess_Championship" target="_blank">Singapore Chess Championship</a> in 1979 and 1984. He will represent Singapore </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">at the </span><a href="https://chess24.com/en/olympiad2014" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromso</a> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">as its non-playing team captain later this summer</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> after which he will soon be moving to the west coast. On behalf of the club, I would like to thank him for his gift -- and personally thank him for the chance to play a few blitz games during his visit.</span></div>
Michael Goellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512012158305281566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-15002867021620784032014-06-23T00:47:00.002-04:002014-06-23T00:47:14.859-04:00Yaacov's Deathmatch<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have annotated <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/Yaacovn_vs_Contora_select.htm" target="_blank">a selection of games from the Deathmatch between IM Yaacov Norowitz and GM Boris Avrukh</a> (<a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/Yaacovn_vs_Contora_select.htm" target="_blank">Replay</a>, <a href="http://rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/kenilworth-pgn/Yaacovn_vs_Contora_select.pgn" target="_blank">PGN</a>), played Sunday, June 22 on the Chess.com server. Commentator </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">IM Daniel Rensch called it "The most exciting deathmatch in history," and he pointed out that it was also the biggest comeback in Chess.com deathmatch history, with Yaacov overcoming a 5-point deficit to take the match based on his excellent performance in bullet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The rules of the match were that the contestants would play a series of 5-minute, 3-minute, and 1-minute bullet for set periods (adding up to 3 hours), competing for $1,000, with the winner of each time category gaining $100 and the overall winner getting $500. As expected, GM Avrukh performed better at the "slower" time controls, winning the 5-minute by a score of 5-2 and the 3-minute by a score of 6.5-4.5, so that he was leading by 5 points going into the Bullet games. However, IM Norowitz won the Bullet games with a convincing 8-2 margin, thus winning the overall event by a point in the final game, taking the match 14.5 - 13.5. It was a very exciting finish, with Norowitz winning the final three games.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Members of the Kenilworth Chess Club have followed Yaacov's chess career very closely, as he is a former club champion and played at the club as a young man (winning <a href="http://kenilworthchessclub.org/articles/history/club/part3.htm" target="_blank">the under-1800 trophy in 1992-1993</a>). The games with GM Avrukh demonstrated some nice tactics, including the following two puzzles that feature tricky Knight moves (see my notes on the games for the solutions).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>More on Yaacov Norowitz</b></span><br />
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<li><a href="http://www.chess.com/article/view/a-new-yorker-and-a-nomad-to-contest-death-match-25" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">A New Yorker and a Nomad to Contest Death Match 25</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> by Mike Klein, Chess.com June 19, 2014</span></li>
<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2006/05/yaacov-norowitz-lecture.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yaacov Norowitz Lecture</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2006/08/yaacov-norowitz-google-video-star.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Yaacov Norowitz, Google Video Star</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></li>
<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2013/04/yaacov-norowitz-invited-to-us.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Yaacov Norowitz Invited to Open Championship</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></li>
<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2013/05/norowitz-batting-500-heading-into-final.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Norowitz Batting 4.38 Heading into Final Round</a></li>
<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2013/05/us-chess-championship-rounds-3-4.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">US Championship, Rounds 3 & 4</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2013/02/yaacov-norowitz-earns-im-in-reykjavik.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Yaacov Earns IM in Reykjavic</a></li>
<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2009/12/yaacov-norowitz-on-color-complexes.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Yaacov Norowitz on Color Complexes</a></li>
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Michael Goellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512012158305281566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-92072039121924407492014-06-16T02:35:00.001-04:002014-06-16T02:35:18.872-04:00Vienna Gambit Traps from the Alrick H. Man <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have annotated the game <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/smirka-torre-1925.htm" target="_blank">Rudolf Smirka - Carlos Torre, New York 1925</a> (<a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/smirka-torre-1925.htm" target="_blank">Replay</a> / <a href="http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/kenilworth-pgn/smirka-torre-1925.pgn" target="_blank">Download PGN</a>), from the Alrick H. Man Vienna Gambit Theme Tournament. It nicely illustrates some important but nearly forgotten traps in the Vienna Gambit (C29). The chief trap is one that should have been known already in 1925 from <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1042013" target="_blank">Euwe - Yates, The Hague 1921</a>, but which either remained unknown or had already been forgotten, at least to judge from the game and from <a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20a%20Grayscale%20-%200986.pdf" target="_blank">Torre's notes on it in the <i>Brooklyn Eagle</i></a>. The diagram below shows the critical position, with White to play and win </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">after </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Qe2! Nc6? 7.Nxe4 Nd4? 8.Qd3 Bxf3</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This trap arises very naturally</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> as</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Black seeks to exploit the pin on the Nf3 and the placement of White's Queen at e2. White's winning move, which involves a retreat without capture, is easily overlooked, as it was by both players and even by Torre in his notes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This series will continue in the coming weeks, and I will eventually post all nine known games from the tournament with the goal of offering a useful introduction to the Vienna Gambit.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">See also:</span></strong><br />
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<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2011/01/alrick-h-man-vienna-gambit-theme.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Alrick H. Man Vienna Gambit Theme Tournament</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-dimock-theme-tournaments-and.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Dimock Theme Tournaments and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/vienna/torre-norwood.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Torre - Norwood, Alrick H. Man Theme Tournament</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/vienna-gambit-c29-bibliography.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Vienna Gambit (C29) Bibliography</span></a></li>
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Michael Goellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512012158305281566noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-16458703371866909832014-06-09T01:38:00.001-04:002019-05-04T01:36:10.269-04:00Two Knights Caro-Kann Gets Tartakowered<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Kenilworth Chess Club's annual <a href="http://kenilworthchessclub.blogspot.com/2014/06/summer-tournament-starts-tonight.html" target="_blank">Summer Tournament</a> began this past Thursday. I always try to play at least <a href="http://kcctournaments.blogspot.com/2014/06/summer-tourney-round-1.html" target="_blank">the first round</a> of this event, which keeps the club active during the quiet summer months. My opponent for the evening was NM Mark Kernighan, and <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/tatakower-Nf3-notes.htm" target="_blank">I have annotated our game</a> (<a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/tatakower-Nf3-notes.htm" target="_blank">Replay</a> / <a href="http://rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/kenilworth-pgn/tatakower-Nf3-notes.pgn">PGN</a>). Though it was an embarrassing loss for me, it was useful for showing that the Tartakower Variation of the Caro-Kann works very well against the Two Knights. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have been reading Alexey Bozgodov's </span><a href="http://www.newinchess.com/The_Extreme_Caro_Kann-p-992.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>The Extreme Caro-Kann</i></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, and had brought it to the club where it sat by the board as play commenced. The book is devoted to the Fantasy Variation (1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.f3) -- a line sometimes named after </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1410048" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">early adopter</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Savielly Tartakower.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> So when Kernighan played the Caro-Kann, I thought he expected me to follow "the book." Out of my desire to never give my opponent what he wants, and my worries that I had not yet prepared the Fantasy Variation as deeply as I'd like, I went to my old standby: the Two Knights Variation with 1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nf3. To this Mark responded with the <i>other </i>Tartakower Variation: 3...dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nxf6+ exf6. I had commented on that line recently in annotating </span><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/hort-pfleger-master-game.htm" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hort - Pfleger, BBC Master Game 1980</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, where Hort played 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nxf6+ exf6 6.c3 Bd6 7.Bd3 O-O 8.Ne2! It had occurred to me then that this standard and strong way of meeting the Tartakower would not work with the Two Knights, where White is already committed to Nf3. I had done some preliminary research at the time for an Nf3 antidote to the Tartakower, but I could not figure out the best path. I have to admit, I'm still at a loss. So it looks like the Two Knights Variation has been Tartakowered! Good thing I am studying the <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2010/03/caro-kann-defense-fantasy-variation.html" target="_blank">Fantasy Variation</a>... And there is always the <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2013/complete-caveman.htm" target="_blank">Caveman</a>, the <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/articles/opening/apocalypse/apocalypse.htm" target="_blank">Apocalypse</a>, and the <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2011/01/panov-botvinnik-b14-webliography.html" target="_blank">Panov-Botvinnik</a> to fall back on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As the game shows, the Tartakower Variation is a promising line for amateurs, so I append a bibliography.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Caro-Kann, Tartakower Variation Bibliography </b></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(B15 - 4...Nf6 5.Nxf6+ exf6)</b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The line is sometimes called the Forgacs, Nimzovich, or Korchnoi Variation, and sometimes lumped in with the <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessopening?eco=b16" target="_blank">Bronstein-Larsen (B16) with 5...gxf6</a>. You can find game collections at <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/opening/307" target="_blank">Chesstempo</a>, <a href="http://www.365chess.com/eco/B15_Caro-Kann_Tartakower_(Nimzovich)_variation" target="_blank">365 Chess</a>, <a href="http://chess.com/">Chess.com</a>, and <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1021321" target="_blank">Caro-Kann Bronstein-Larsen for White</a>. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As always I welcome additions and corrections from readers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<a href="http://www.chess.com/blog/Kivielovich/caro-kann-defense-main-line-tartakower-variation-mcdonald" target="_blank">Caro-Kann Defense: Main line: Tartakower variation (McDonald)</a>" by Kivielovich, Chess.com (2014). Presumably this follows games given by McDonald (2000 -- see below).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/hort-pfleger-master-game.htm" target="_blank">Hort's Master Game</a>" (<a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/04/how-passed-pawns-win-master-games.html" target="_blank">blog</a> / <a href="https://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/kenilworth-pgn/hort-pfleger-master-game.pgn" target="_blank">pgn</a>) by Michael Goeller, Kenilworth CC (2014).<br />Analyzes the game Hort - Pfleger, BBC Master Game, that demonstrates White's best approach with </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nxf6+ exf6 6.c3 Bd6 7.Bd3 O-O 8.Ne2! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.informant1966.com/b15-16-caro-kann-5-nf6-diamondbase-171/" target="_blank">B15-16 Caro-Kann 5.Nf6, DiamondBase 171</a> by ChessInformant (2013). Instant download with 171 games for $4.99 -- a great deal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Exploiting the Drawbacks" by Valeri Lilov, <a href="http://chesslecture.com/">ChessLecture.com</a> (2012). A 17-minute video featuring the game <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1273101" target="_blank">Ragozin - Boleslavsky, Sverdlost 1942</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com.au/Caro-Kann-Bronstein-Larsen-Chess-Jon-Edwards-ebook/dp/B006LAXLSQ" target="_blank"><i>Caro-Kann Bronstein-Larsen</i></a> by Jon Edwards, Chess is Fun (2011). Focuses on gxf6 but covers exf6 main line.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<a href="http://webcast.chessclub.com/preview/Alterman/2009_09_24/Alterman_preview.html" target="_blank">Caro-Kann, Tartakower Variation, Part 1</a>" and "<a href="http://webcast.chessclub.com/preview/Alterman/2009_10_01/Alterman_preview.html" target="_blank">Part 2</a>" by Boris Alterman, ICC (2009). For ICC subscribers only.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Epic Battles: Part V: Knocking Out a Solid System" by John-Paul Wallace, <a href="http://chesslecture.com/">ChessLecture.com</a> (2007). A 21-minute video featuring</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> the game </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1038271" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">DeFirmian - Odendahl 1988</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. By subscription only.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Opening-White-according-Volume-Repertoire/dp/9548782413/" target="_blank">Opening for White according to Anand 1.e4, Volume 3</a> (Repertoire Books) by Alexander Khalifman, Chess Stars (2004).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Caro-Kann-Defence-Knight-Variation-B15-16/dp/8886127065/" target="_blank">Caro-Kann Defence Knight Variation 4: B15-16</a> by Maurizio Curtacci, S1 Editrice (2002).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Caro-Kann-Main-Line-Everyman-Chess/dp/185744227X" target="_blank"><i>Main-line Caro-Kann</i></a> by Neil McDonald, Everyman Chess (2000): 127-141.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Dynamic-Caro-Kann-Bronstein-Original/dp/0945806027" target="_blank">The Dynamic Caro-Kann</a></i> by Jeremy Silman, Summit (1989). Though focused more on the gxf6 lines, it also covers exf6. This is one of the best sources on the line.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Play-Caro-Kann-Egon-Varnusz/dp/1857440137" target="_blank"><i>Play the Caro-Kann</i></a> by Egon </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Varnusz, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pergamon (1982). Still a useful reference, if obviously dated. There is a <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1008374" target="_blank">great games collection at Chessgames.com</a> of games from the book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Caro_Kann_Defence.html?id=SbJIAgAACAAJ" target="_blank"><i>The Caro-Kann Defence: Bronstein-Larsen Varition ; Tartakower-Korchnoi Line</i></a> by V. Ravi Kumar, Dansk Skakforlag (1981). A 48 page pamphlet devoted to both 5...gxf6 and 5....exf6. The most interesting suggestion here is 5.Ng3!? for White, side-stepping the exchange, which is not so easy. Sample games include Karpov - Larsen, Tilburg 1979; Sax - Larsen, Tilburg 1979; Matulovic - Bhend, Zagreb 1955; Unzicker - Lein, South Africa 1979; Spielmann - Nimzovich, Match 1903; Schuster - Carls 1913; Kavalek - Anderson, Match 1978; Sznapik - Kostro, Poland 1980.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Tartakower Variation" by Jack Peters, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Caro-Kann-Defense-Raymond-Keene/dp/1843821346" target="_blank"><i>Understanding the Caro-Kann Defense</i></a>, by Raymond Keene, et. al. RHM Press (1980): 39-57.<br />First published in 1980 (and so <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Caro-Kann-Defense/dp/0890580529/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_5?ie=UTF8&refRID=0E469HNRD173EK5E301Q" target="_blank">available used</a>), this book makes for a great intro to the Caro-Kann, even if it is a bit dated. The chapter by Peters on the Tartakower Variation is absolutely first rate and very valuable for amateurs interested in the line, especially with its discussion of the endgame implications of Black's structural "sacrifice." Game references include <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1020093" target="_blank">Sax - Andersson, Wijk aan Zee 1981</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1066979" target="_blank">Karpov - Korchnoi, WCh Match 1978</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1126348" target="_blank">Matulovic - Smyslov, Siegen 1970</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1019875" target="_blank">Kavalek - Andersson, Washington 1978</a>; and Peters - Andersson, National chess League 1978.</span></div>
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Michael Goellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512012158305281566noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-3890576755453390202014-06-02T00:06:00.000-04:002017-12-09T10:45:36.785-05:00Bibliography on 2.b3 vs the Sicilian and the French<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">An early b3 for White is gaining legitimacy, as witnessed by the recent high-level appearance of the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nimzo-Larsen-Attack-Everyman-Chess-Jonathan/dp/1857442865">Nimzo-Larsen Attack</a> with 1.b3 (consider, for instance, the games of <a href="http://www.365chess.com/search_result.php?submit_search=1&eco=A01&wid=9834">Baadur Jobava</a> and <a href="http://www.365chess.com/search_result.php?submit_search=1&eco=A01&wid=722">Elisabeth Paehtz</a>). So it should hardly surprise us that an early b3 is being used with greater frequency against the Sicilian (1.e4 c5 2.b3) and French Defense (1.e4 e6 2.b3), and analysis and experience show that it represents a fully legitimate system. Those seeking an unusual way of meeting these two most common Black defenses to 1.e4 would do well to study 2.b3 against both lines due to the possible transpositions between them, as shown by the repertoire of IM/WGM <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/player/eva_repkova.html" target="_blank">Eva Repkova</a>. Dr. Richard Lewis of the Kenilworth Chess Club has been using this repertoire for over 40 years, and theory is just catching up with him...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Sicilian with 2.b3 (Snyder Sicilian, Czerniak Attack, b3 Sicilian)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Most 1.e4 players these days accept that the Sicilian is a tough nut to crack, so they are happy just to reach an interesting position where they might feel more comfortable than their opponents. The line 1.e4 c5 2.b3 (or 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.b3, sometimes called the Westerinen Variation) definitely serves that purpose and has been used occasionally by some very strong GMs, including <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?yearcomp=exactly&year=&playercomp=either&pid=&player=short&pid2=&player2=&movescomp=exactly&moves=&opening=&eco=b20&result=&tid=&eidt=">Nigel Short</a>, <a href="http://www.365chess.com/search_result.php?wlname=spassky+&wname=&open=&blname=&bname=&eco=b20&nocolor=on&yeari=&yeare=&sply=1&ply=&res=&submit_search=1">Boris Spassky</a>, and <a href="http://www.365chess.com/search_result.php?wlname=morozevich&wname=&open=&blname=&bname=&eco=b20&nocolor=on&yeari=&yeare=&sply=1&ply=&res=&submit_search=1">Alexander Morozevich</a>, and has been the main anti-Sicilian weapon of such strong players as GM <a href="http://www.365chess.com/search_result.php?search=1&m=3&n=76&ms=e4.c5.b3&wid=12089">Tamaz Gelashvili</a> , IM <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?playercomp=white&pid=21926&eco=B20&title=M+Czerniak+playing+Sicilian+(B20)+as+White+">Moshe Czerniak</a>, and IM/WGM <a href="http://www.365chess.com/search_result.php?search=1&m=3&n=76&ms=e4.c5.b3&wid=2360">Eva Repkova</a>. It was first used in <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1271869">Cochrane - Staunton, London Match 2 1842</a> and <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=3886013">tried out recently by current World Champion Magnus Carlsen</a>. I suggest that the name Czerniak Attack should take the place of Snyder Sicilian, especially given the reputation problems of the latter (see below).</span><br />
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Game collections can be found at <a href="http://www.365chess.com/opening.php?m=4&n=76&ms=e4.c5.b3" target="_blank">365chess</a>, <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/opening/2282" target="_blank">ChessTempo</a>, <a href="http://www.chess.com/opening/eco/B20_Sicilian_Defense_Snyder_Variation">Chess.com</a>, <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1003304" target="_blank">the Snyder variation at Chessgames</a>, and <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1026873" target="_blank">B20 Sicilian Snyder White at Chessgames</a>. What follows is a bibliography of sources I have in my possession or could find easily. As always, I welcome reader additions and corrections.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Sicilian-Line-b3-before-Instructional/dp/B00MYD238I" target="_blank">An Anti-Sicilian Line: b3 before d4</a> by Dennis Monokroussos, <a href="http://chesslecture.com/">ChessLecture.com</a> (June 5, 2014). A just-released 87-minute DVD available from ChessLecture.com, featuring games with 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.b3. You can also gain access to these videos by joining ChessLecture.com for at least a month, which is the better deal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"An Anti-Sicilian Line: b3 before d4, Part 1" by Dennis Monokroussos, <a href="http://chesslecture.com/">ChessLecture.com</a> (June 5, 2013). A 32 minute video featuring Carlsen - Svidler, World Blitz Championship (Moscow) 2009. For subscribers only.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"An Anti-Sicilian Line: b3 before d4, Part 2" by Dennis Monokroussos, <a href="http://chesslecture.com/">ChessLecture.com</a> (June 12, 2013). A 25 minute video featuring Kavalek - Hracek, Ceska Trebova 1998. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For subscribers only.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Experts-Anti-Sicilian-Jacob-Aagaard/dp/1906552800" target="_blank">Experts on the Anti-Sicilian</a></i> by Jacob Aagaard and John Shaw, Quality Chess (2011): 432-441. <a href="http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/ExpertsontheAnti-Sicilian-Excerpt.pdf" target="_blank">Download PDF contents</a>. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The last chapter features Peter Heine Nielsen's cheeky recommendation for Black of 2.b3 g6, with continuations like 3.Bb2 Nf6 4.Qf3 Bg7 5.e5 Ng8 6.e6 Nf6, or 4…Nc6 5.e5 Nh5, or 4.Nc3 Bg7 5.e5 Nh5.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> "Sicilian: The Czerniak Attack" by Arthur Kogan, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sos-Secrets-Opening-Surprises-Volume/dp/9056912410" target="_blank">Secrets of Opening Surprises #9</a> (2008): 123-136. Makes an excellent case for calling the opening the "Czerniak Attack" after its most highly regarded early adopter. Sample games include <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1533430">Czerniak - Cebalo, Zagreb 1969</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1482216">Mamedyarov - van Wely, Wijk aan Zee 2008</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1170580">Gelashvili - Gagunashvili, Batumi 2001</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2610763">Short - Prasad, Mumbai 2004</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1329778">Gelashvili - Reddmann, Hamburg 1999</a>; and <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1006033">Short - Thorfinnsson, Reykjavik 2000</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Anti-Sicilians-Combating-Closed-Everyman/dp/1857445201"><i>Fighting the Anti-Sicilians</i></a> by Richard Palliser, Everyman Chess (2007): 189-200. Explores 2...d6 and 2...Nc6, though I think 2...e6 would have fit better with his overall repertoire. Sample games in the notes include <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1340894">Buchnicek - Plachetka, Czech League 2005</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1149940">Jiangchuan - Xu Jun, Shenzhen 1992</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1629514">Rogers - Ostermeyer, Biel 1984</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1286601">Dos Santos - Pedersen, Matinhos 1994</a>; and <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1286600">Minasian - Aronian, Omsk 1996</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://proletario.cl/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Estudio_Casero_Siciliana_B20_con_2.b3_MF_Job_Sepulveda.pdf" target="_blank">Estudio Casero Defensa Siciliana con 1.e4 c5 2.b3!?</a> by Job Sepúlveda, Proletario (2007).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.chesspublishing.com/content/5/may06.htm" target="_blank">Anti-Sicilians</a> by Jonathan Rowson, ChessPublishing (May 2006). By subscription. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060826045840/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/lane71.pdf" target="_blank">Gold Medals, Opening Lanes #71</a> by Gary Lane, ChessCafe (2004). </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lane analyzes the game </span><a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2610763" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Short - Prasad, Mumbai 2004</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, which a reader sent suggesting the b3 Sicilian be renamed "the Short variation." Personally, I think this is a great game, but there are enough Short Variations already.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050211185222/http://chessville.com/instruction/Openings/Martin/Mar04a.htm" target="_blank">The Sicilian, Snyder Variation, Part One</a>" and "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050211184414/http://chessville.com/instruction/Openings/Martin/Mar04b.htm" target="_blank">Part Two</a>" by Andrew Martin at Chessville (March 2004) -- via the Internet Archive. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Part One's "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050211185222/http://chessville.com/instruction/Openings/Martin/Mar04a.htm" target="_blank">Nosher on the Ocher</a>" discusses </span><a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2610763" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Short - Prasad, Mumbai 2004</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, while <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050211184414/http://chessville.com/instruction/Openings/Martin/Mar04b.htm" target="_blank">Part Two</a> discusses <a href="http://chess-db.com/public/game.jsp?id=1200879.1210920.52934656">Pessi - Miron, Romania 2003</a>. From the web archive.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070216032003/http://www.jeremysilman.com/chess_bits_pieces/040313_verdict_1.html">The Verdict, Part One</a>" and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070216031923/http://www.jeremysilman.com/chess_bits_pieces/040313_verdict_2.html">Part Two</a> by Andrew Martin at Jeremy Silman's website (March 2004) -- via the Internet Archive.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A Little different from the article Martin published at Chessville, but <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070216032003/http://www.jeremysilman.com/chess_bits_pieces/040313_verdict_1.html">Part One</a> features Arp - Zomer, NED 2004 and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070216031923/http://www.jeremysilman.com/chess_bits_pieces/040313_verdict_2.html">Part Two</a> features </span><a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2610763" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Short - Prasad, Mumbai 2004</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. From the web archive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Chess-Advantage-Black-White-Grandmasters/dp/0812935713" target="_blank">The Chess Advantage in Black and White</a></i> by Larry Kaufman, Random House (2004): 115-117, 128-133. Demonstrates a surprising interest in b3 lines, via a Rossolimo move order or via 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.b3. Games include <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=363545">Akopian - Fominyh, Ubeda 2001</a>; C. Horvath - Fogarasi, Budapest 2002; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1205326">Anand - Leko, Bastia 2001</a>; and Berzins - Meijers, Latvia 2002.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070203070139/http://www.chessgate.de/training/training_kindermann/training_kindermann.html" target="_blank">Schachtraining: Geheimwaffen in der Eroffnung</a> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by Stefan Kindermann (circa 2002-2003)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Features some excellent PGN downloads with analysis covering all major lines following 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.b3!? which is practically a cross-over variation. From the internet archive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Anti-Sicilians-Guide-Black-Dorian-Rogozenko/dp/1901983846" target="_blank"><i>Anti-Sicilians, A Guide for Black</i></a> by Dorian Rogozenko, Gambit (2003). </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Recommends 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.b3 b6!? and 2.b3 b6!?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050606161338/http://www.geocities.com/eric_98008/Sicilian1.html" target="_blank">Black Repertoire, Sicilian, 2.b3</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050607053149/http://www.geocities.com/eric_98008/sicilianGame1.html" target="_blank">Games</a> by Eric Tangborn, Geocities (circa 1998)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Black's perspective from IM Tangborn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.ichess.net/shop/white-repertoire-against-the-sicilian-center-counter-pirc-im-andrew-martin/#.U4uzhBVX-uY" target="_blank">Foxy Chess Openings, 149 (Vol. 2): White Repertoire Against the Sicilian, Center Counter & Pirc</a> by Andrew Martin (no date). </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Volume Two continues Martin’s new 'Winning Repertoire Series for White – 1.e4', which outlines a complete repertoire system for the first player, built around the King’s Pawn opening. Here IM Martin covers how to answer the Sicilian, the Center Counter and the Pirc. After 1.e4 c5 White will continue 2.b3! and enter prepared territory; if 1.e4 d5 we follow with 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.Rb1!, and the Pirc meets with 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Be2 Bg7 5.g4! and attack as shown."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sicilian Unusual [B20] Survey, by Tamas Horvath, ChesssBase Encyclopedia (1993). Covers 2...d6 (e.g.: Spassky - Huebner, Bueonos Aires 1978; Tschichowani-Lapenis, Belzy 1979) and 2...e6 (e.g.; Spassky-Hernandez, Buenos Aires 1978; Kanzler-Ionov, Daugavpils 1979).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sicilian-B3-Robert-M-Snyder/dp/0941426149" target="_blank">Sicilian 2.b3, Snyder Sicilian: A Complete Opening System against the Sicilian with 2.b3</a> by Robert M. Snyder, Players Press (1984). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A 125 page pamphlet by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Michael_Snyder">notorious chess teacher and child molester</a>, featured on "<a href="http://www.uschess.org/content/view/9803/556/">America's Most Wanted</a>." I have not seen this item.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>De schaakopening. Siciliaans-flanksystemen: het 2. f2-f4 complex, het vleugelgambiet 2. b2-b4, de 2. b2-b3 variant</i> by Paul Boersma, Andriessen (1983). Thanks MNb.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The French with 2.b3 (Reti Gambit, Papa Gambit)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The line 1.e4 e6 2.b3, which can lead to the gambit 2...d5 3.Bb2 dxe4, is often attributed to Richard Reti, who played it in <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1006540">Reti - Maroczy, Gotheburg 1920</a>. Later, the opening was adopted by Rudolf Spielmann with some success, as in <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1130915">Spielmann - Mueller, Vienna 1928</a> and <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1007972">Spielmann - Grau, San Remo 1930</a>, so his name is sometimes associated with the opening as well. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=115156">Mike Papa</a> published a pamphlet on the line that generated interest, so his name has also gained some followers. But the most thorough treatment of the variation has been by Thomas Johansson, who calls it "The Fascinating Reti Gambit" -- so that name seems best. I will add some items from French repertoire books here in the coming week, and I welcome additions from readers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Play-French-4th-Everyman-Chess/dp/1857446801" target="_blank">Play the French</a></i> 4th edition by John Watson, Everyman Chess (2012): 414-415.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Watson argues that "b3 and e4 do not mix well." Sample games include Bury - Watson, Leominster 1977 (the main focus of earlier editions, with 2...b6 sidestepping White's main preparation); <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2188952" target="_blank">Arvola - Westerinen, Tromso 2008</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2188725" target="_blank">Karasev - Farago, Polanica Zdroj 1974</a>; and <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/3065113" target="_blank">Rzayev - Tran Tuan Minh, Budapest 2011</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1857446461/" target="_blank"><i>Attacking Chess: The French</i></a> by Simon Williams, Everyman Chess (2011): 301-304. Williams writes: "I am not entirely sure what the name of this variation should be, but it is an interesting little move. White figures that now that Black has played 1...e6, he can no longer block the a1-h8 diagonal with ...e5. For that reason White wants to place his bishop on b2 as then it will be a good piece. There is some logic to this way of thinking, but Black has a number of ways to gain equality." </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is a great book on the French for Black, and Williams's recommendation of 1.e4 e6 2.b3 d5 3.Bb2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 fits well with his overall repertoire and may be Black's best. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sample games include </span><a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2188533" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Paehtz - Zhukova, European Women's Ch Gotheburg 2005</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (White's 9.d4?! does not fit the system);</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.howardstaunton.com/hsmt2004/g3.htm" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Houska - Levitt, London 2004</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; and </span><a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2188524" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Repkova - Boric, Sibenik 2008</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Reti's Line against the French" by Alexander Finkel, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sos-Secrets-Opening-Surprises-Volume/dp/9056912410" target="_blank">Secrets of Opening Surprises #9</a> (2008): 102-108. Argues that the Reti Gambit leads to very interesting positions where familiarity will help. Sample games include <a href="http://chess-db.com/public/game.jsp?id=613762.603252.71422720">Maze - Vaisser, Val d'lsere 2004</a>; Repkova - Macak, Slovokia tt 2004-2005; Totsky - Zakharov, Perm 1997; and <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1296659">Repkova - Rajlich, Biel 2004</a>. A very useful overview.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fascinating-R%C3%A9ti-Gambit-Thomas-Johansson/dp/1411692403" target="_blank">The Fascinating Reti Gambit</a></i> by Thomas Johansson, Lulu.com (2006). Previews available at <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=pn0VUI45vAEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">Google Books</a>. I am always surprised to find complete and thoroughly researched books on obscure lines -- such as this fascinating study. Johansson has previously contributed some great books on the King's Gambit. I especially recommend <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fascinating-Kings-Gambit-Thomas-Johansson/dp/1412046475">The Fascinating King's Gambit</a>, focused on the Bishop's Gambit, which seems not to have gotten as much attention as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Kings-Gambit-Creative-Aggressor/dp/3931192091">The King's Gambit for the Creative Aggressor</a> from 1998. Johansson naturally starts off with The Reti Gambit Accepted (1.e4 e6 2.b3 d5 3.Bb2 dxe4 4.Nc3) exploring first the greedy 4...f5?! when he focuses on the standard 5.f3 (which seems most promising) and the interesting alternative 5.d3!? which is definitely playable if not as clear. He then devotes considerable attention to Reti's ow line 4...Nf6 5.Qe2 which can lead to fascinating positions involving an early g4-g5 thrust for White and opposite side castling. He also examines Mike Papa's idea of 5.g4 immediately. In the declined section, he covers a wide range of options for both players but devotes the most attention to "The Safe" 3...Nf6 4.e5 Nbd7 5.Qg4 c5 6.f4 Nc6 7.Nf3 -- which is likely the line you will see the most. Transpositions to the Sicilian with 1.e4 e6 2.b3 c5 are also considered in detail. Basically, if you are going to make this line part of your repertoire, this book is a must. And, fortunately, it is not out of print nor likely to go out of print any time soon (since it is published "print on demand").</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/French-Advance-Other-Steffen-Pedersen/dp/1904600409"><i>French: Advance and Other Lines</i></a> by Steffen Pedersen, Gambit (2005): 135-136. Merely mentions the main line with 2...d5 3.Bb2, giving the games Varga - Farago, Nagykanizsa 2003; Kapnisis - Berelovich, Kavala 2002; and Repkova - Cosma, Pula 2002. The main focus is on the admittedly "non-theoretical" 2...b6 as seen in Bury - Watson, Leominster 1977; Gallinnis - Jackelen, Bundesliga 1998/1999; and <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1274381">Wisnewski - Meister, Hoeckendorf 2004</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050204000327/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/mcgrew14.pdf" target="_blank">Terra Incognita</a>" by Tim McGrew, The Gambit Cartel #14 at ChessCafe (2003)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Discusses the Reti Gambit with 1.e4 e6 2.b3 d5 3.Bb2!? in three games: McGrew - Balan, Kalamazoo, MI, September 2003, Karasev - Akopian, USSR Cup 1970, and Borkowski - Matlak, Correspondence 1979.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The Papa gambit vs. The French Defense: 1.e4 e6 2.b3!! </i>by Michael Joseph Papa, Jr., MICH Publications (July 3, 1991).</span></div>
Michael Goellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512012158305281566noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-64330278876724178202014-05-26T00:23:00.002-04:002018-02-28T09:54:57.053-05:00Review of Pete Tamburro's "Openings for Amateurs"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pete Tamburro's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Openings-Amateurs-Pete-Tamburro/dp/1936277506" target="_blank"><i>Openings for Amateurs</i></a> (Mongoose 2014) lives up to its billing as an excellent introduction to the openings for scholastic and club players</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. They just don't write books like this anymore -- ones that give good general advice on the openings and explore a variety of lines for advanced beginners and amateurs to play and learn from, with discussion they can quickly grasp and use. In fact, this book fills a void in the contemporary chess literature last served by classics like Larry Evans and company's </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/4871878171/AJM77FDC9V9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">How to Open a Chess Game</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (1975) and I. A. Horowitz's </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Chess-Openings-Horowitz/dp/0671624261/" target="_blank">How to Win in the Chess Openings</a></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (circa 1950s) -- both still in print (!) and both still in English descriptive notation (!) which tells you how few books have been published to take their place. To be fair, there are some other contemporary books in this category, such as Sam Collins's </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Chess-Openings-Sam-Collins/dp/190460028X/" target="_blank">Understanding the Chess Openings</a></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, which covers opening principles and surveys <i>all</i> of the major openings; but Collins's book, while useful, is more of a map than a guide. <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2006/08/star-ledger-profiles-pete-tamburro.html" target="_blank">Pete Tamburro</a>, meanwhile, wants to be your guide, and I can think of no better guide for amateurs than the man who <i>invented</i> "Openings for Amateurs" with his <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060106014838/http://www.njscf.org/" target="_blank">articles</a>, <a href="http://java.ugent.be/~tdemedts/chess.fm/PeteTamburro/" target="_blank">videos</a>, and <a href="http://njscf.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=amate" target="_blank">online discussion forum</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The book is divided into two halves: "The Primer: Mistakes in the Opening Most Often Made by Amateurs, and Other Worries" (comprised of general opening advice with illustrative games and examples) and "Openings for Amateurs" (comprised of an opening repertoire with illustrative games and analysis). The first half will mostly appeal to players rated between 1100-1900 (from advanced beginners to club players), while the second half has a lot to offer any players looking to expand their repertoires. But even stronger players would do well not to skip the Primer, since it is chock full of useful "bonus" lines and repertoire analysis, so that the two halves really form a coherent whole in the end. The material to illustrate principles in the Primer is usually drawn from basic or less important lines that are part of the repertoire -- such as ideas for meeting the King's Gambit, Danish, Halasz Center Gambit, and Vienna Gambit (part of an Open Games repertoire for Black), or the Grob and Orangutan (which you are bound to meet at some point). There is also a nice section titled "When Facing Some of the 'Pre-Planned' Openings, Don't Be Afraid to Have Your Own Plan Ready to Go," which offers a coherent repertoire for counter-attacking the Colle, Barry, and <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2009/12/review-of-zuke-em-expanded-edition.html" target="_blank">Zuke</a>. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tamburro fills the Primer with interesting bonus material like this, also discussing some openings that don't make it into the repertoire such as the Barry Attack and Colle for White (not a bad 1.d4 repertoire) and C.J.S. Purdy's "All-Purpose Defense" for Black with ...e6, ...d5, and ...c5, leading to a French or Tarrasch Defense depending on White's choices. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Most players will find the "Openings for Amateurs" repertoire portion of the book to be its main attraction. As a player who has always played "amateur" lines, I liked Tamburro's opening choices a lot and was surprised at how many were already part of my repertoire or had been in the past. Then it slowly dawned on me that I have known Tamburro's work for well over a decade, so he has already had his influence on me!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tamburro recommends a repertoire built around 1.e4 for White. For Black against 1.e4 he suggests either 1...e5 (heading toward sharp Open Games) or 1...c5 (heading toward the Sicilian Dragon). And for Black against 1.d4 he recommends either 1...Nf6 (heading toward the Nimzo-Indian or Bogo-Indian) or 1...f5 (heading toward the Stonewall Dutch). Along the way, he also discusses the Reversed Dragon line of the English, which can be used for White or Black. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Typically, each chapter here will discuss a number of interesting options before focusing on the repertoire line, so there is plenty of bonus material here as well. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The principles that Tamburro uses in choosing an opening include that it: does not require a lot of memorization, follows general principles, makes you feel comfortable, makes your opponent uncomfortable, and is an opening "you can grow with" (meaning it doesn't allow a known equalizing line or have a known refutation that your stronger opponents are sure to know). For the remainder of this review, I'd like to take a closer look at this repertoire, which seems very well chosen for its intended reader:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sicilian Defense, </b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Chekhover/Rossolimo, Closed and Alapin (1.e4 c5)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tamburro starts in the right place, as the Sicilian is the line you are most likely to face if you open with 1.e4. To help combat this important defense, he discusses three alternatives which will appeal to a variety of styles. After all, one of his key principles is that you need to choose openings that you feel comfortable playing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I especially like the lines with Bb5 for White. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tamburro recommends 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3, meeting 2...d6 with 3.d4 cxd4 4.Qxd4 Nc6 5.Bb5 and 2...Nc6 with 3.Bb5 or an Alapin-like 3.c3 (covered later). He also discusses possible transposition to Alapin-like lines if Black chooses 2...e6. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> S</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ample games here include </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1140304" target="_blank">Tal–R. Byrne, Biel Interzonal 1976</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1088456" target="_blank">J. Polgár–Shirov, Las Palmas 1994</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=1084246" target="_blank">Vojtek–Debnar, Slovak Team Chp. 1997</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/3388615" target="_blank">Firat–Reshetnikov, Moscow 2013</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1302516" target="_blank">Rossolimo - </a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1302516" target="_blank"> </a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1302516" target="_blank">Müller, Bad Gastein 1948</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1302519" target="_blank">Rossolimo - Kottnauer, Bad Gastein 1948</a>; and <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1259461" target="_blank">Rossolimo - Romanenko, Salzburg 1948</a>. The coverage of the Chekhover is first-rate and includes material I wish I had seen before writing my own</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> "</span><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2011/01/notes-on-chekhover-sicilian-b53.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Notes on the Chekhover Sicilian (B53)</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The closed line with 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 followed by 3.g3 is another good option for players seeking to limit their theory. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sample games here include </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1125497" target="_blank">Smyslov–Denker, USA-USSR Radio Match 1946</a> and <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1049394" target="_blank">Spassky–Geller, Candidates’ Match (6) 1968</a>. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Though I usually play the <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/04/grand-prix-attack-b23-bibliography-2006.html" target="_blank">Grand Prix Attack</a> myself (another amateur favorite), I have also tried the Closed with g3, especially as a way of addressing the move order 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 a6!? when White's light-squared Bishop will probably be most comfortable fianchettoed. I learned a lot about this line from analyzing </span><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/summer05/capa-zhen.htm" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Capablanca - Zhenevsky, Moscow 1925</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, which demonstrates the strategic depth of the opening for both players, and from IM Attila Turzo's excellent video </span><a href="http://www.onlinechesslessons.net/shop/the-basic-principles-of-the-closed-sicilian-for-white-im-attila-turzo/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">The Basic Principles of the Closed Sicilian for White</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (ChessLecture) which covers some of the same territory that Tamburro does. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Finally, the c3 Sicilian is a completely different animal but also a good system for amateurs, some of whom might also want to experiment with the <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2012/08/review-of-mayhem-in-morra-and-smith.html" target="_blank">Smith-Morra</a> (which is definitely not a line that Tamburro recommends, let me be clear!) Samples games include </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1013540" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Alekhine–Podgorny, Prague 1943</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2499087" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Sveshnikov–Bonsch, Cienfuegos 1979</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. All-in-all, a great set of options for meeting the Sicilian, and definitely all lines you can "grow with."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">French, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tarrasch Variation (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2)</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is a good approach to the French and fits well with other recommendations, especially the c3 Sicilian (which Tamburro shows can reach similar positions). </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Illustrative games include </span><a href="http://chess-db.com/public/game.jsp?id=4115309.4119800.74953472" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Rublevsky–Dyachkov, Russia Club Cup 1998</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1067761" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Karpov–Kuzmin, Leningrad Interzonal 1973</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; and </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1418091" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Tiviakov–Zhang Pengxiang, Olympiad 2006</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Caro-Kann, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fantasy Variation</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (with 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.f3!?)</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Probably one of Tamburro's most surprising recommendations is the Fantasy Variation</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, which has been an interest of mine (see my </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bibliography on the </span><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2010/03/caro-kann-defense-fantasy-variation.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Fantasy Variation of the Caro-Kann</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, for instance)</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and a line that I definitely plan to return to after reading this chapter! </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">would recommend t</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">he recent book </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Caro-Kann-Attacking-Black-3-f3/dp/9056914693/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Extreme Caro-Kann</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> by Alexey Bezgodov for serious students. Sample games here include <a href="http://www.365chess.com/game.php?gid=2603870" target="_blank">Tatai - Mariotti, Reggio Emilia 1967-68</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1125584" target="_blank">Smyslov - Gereben, Moscow vs Budapest 1949</a>; and </span><a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2824388" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Robson–Shankland, U.S. Junior Ch. 2010</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (where Tamburro has some improvements on White's play). Interestingly, in his excellent earlier book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Learn-Chess-Greats-Dover/dp/048641373X" target="_blank"><i>Learn Chess from the Greats</i></a>, Tamburro gave a "?!" mark in his annotations to White's third move. Clearly he has had a change of heart over the years!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Austrian Pirc (</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.f4)</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have been one of many players inspired by Tamburro's "Openings for Amateurs" lectures at ICC/ChessFM, where he presented on the line 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.f4 Bg7 5.e5 dxe5 6.dxe5!? exchanging Queens to achieve a favorable ending. I wrote about this line</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> in the article "</span><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2006/demetrick-corcoran.htm" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">The Simplified Pirc</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">."</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> It's definitely a solid system that will teach you a lot about chess and score you many points. And if Black does not exchange pawns in the center, he will be under quite a bit of pressure. Sample games include </span><a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2170369" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Bronstein–Benko, Monte Carlo 1969</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and </span><a href="http://chess-db.com/public/game.jsp?id=700231.4107730.46380288" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Z. Polgár–Shchekachev, Vienna 1991</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Canal Variation of the Alekhine's Defense (1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.Bc4)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have from time to time experimented with a </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"</span><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2006/05/mad-dog.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Mad Dog</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> opening repertoire built around 1.e4 with an early Bc4 for White against most everything Black can play, and it naturally features the Canal Variation against the Alekhine with 4.Bc4 (though I have also experimented with the gambit line of the Chase Variation with 3.c4 Nb6 4.c5 Nd5 5.Bc4!? as well). I agree with Tamburro's view that Canal's approach is underestimated by theory and I was glad to see him discuss it. Sample games include Canal–Pérez, Madrid 1951, and </span><a href="http://chess-db.com/public/game.jsp?id=700029.14503000.43952640" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Sax–D. Burić, 2002</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Scandinavian (1.e4 d5 2.exd5)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I like Tamburro's repertoire against the Scandinavian, especially 2...Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.Bc4 Nf6 5.d3!? which I <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2008/goeller-daniels.htm" target="_blank">play also</a>, ever since I saw <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Essential-Center-Counter-Practical/dp/1888710225" target="_blank">Andrew Martin</a> mention that it might be White's "most dangerous" option. Tamburro also covers some of my favorite attacking lines, including the sharp 2...Nf6 3.d4 Nxd5 4.c4 Nb6 5.Nf3 Ng4 6.c5! N6d7 7.Bc4, which is another one of those "<a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2006/05/mad-dog.html" target="_blank">Mad Dog</a>" lines where the Bishop aims at f7. Sample games include </span><a href="http://www.chess.com/games/view?id=1229045" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Houska–Keitlinghaus, Bundesliga 2003/04</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; </span><a href="http://chess-db.com/public/game.jsp?id=4105958.4121422.42051840" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Losev–Orlinkov, Moscow 2010</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; R.</span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1715825" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank"> Byrne–Rogoff, U.S. Chp. 1978</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; and </span><a href="http://www.iccf-webchess.com/game?id=338762" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Lisetskaya–Everitt, ICCF 2011</a>.<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Spanish Four Knights (1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.Bb5)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">About eight years ago I visited Fred Wilson at his <a href="http://www.fredwilsonchess.com/" target="_blank">book shop in New York City</a>, where he completely sold me on the Spanish Four Knights by calling it a "real man's" opening -- because it leads to hand-to-hand combat and has been played by some of the toughest players in chess history. Following Wilson's recommendations, I played and analyzed it quite a bit (see my <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2006/07/spanish-four-knights-c48-bibliography.html" target="_blank">bibliography</a> and articles <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2006/anti-rubinstein.htm" target="_blank">one</a>, <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2006/apsenieks-fine1937.htm" target="_blank">two</a> and <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2007/najer-ippolito.htm" target="_blank">three</a> on the line in what should have been a much longer series). On the only occasion that I visited Pete Tamburro at his home, we discussed our mutual interest in the Four Knights and he photocopied some fascinating historical analysis for me from the January 1922 issue of <i>British Chess Magazine</i> (which he also discusses at length in his book). The article he copied recommended meeting Rubinstein's 4...Nd4 with the simple 5.O-O! -- the same line I had learned from Wilson and discussed in <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2006/anti-rubinstein.htm" target="_blank">my first article</a>. Sample games in this chapter include </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1266710" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Capablanca–H. Steiner, Los Angeles 1933</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1284421" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Maróczy–F. Treybal, Prague 1908</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; and </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1295790" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Perlis–Freymann, St. Petersburg 1909</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. Besides those books mentioned in my bibliography, there are also the more recent <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9056913727/" target="_blank">The Four Knights Game</a> by Andrey Obodchuk and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Four-Knights-Move/dp/1857446933/" target="_blank">The Four Knights: Move by Move</a> by Cyrus Lakdawala -- the latter of which also discusses the next line via Glek's move order.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Paulsen Vienna with g3 (1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This line has been a favorite of mine, as I discuss in my <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/03/glek-four-knights-and-paulsen-vienna.html" target="_blank">Glek Four Knights and Paulsen Vienna Bibliography</a>. It really fits the bill for an opening that you can play on general principles without a lot of memorization. Sample games from the book include </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1230238" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Motwani–B. Jónsson, Iceland 1992</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><a href="http://chess-db.com/public/game.jsp?id=2001098.2048949.87339008" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Bisguier–Snow, U.S. Amateur Team East 2013</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Open Games as Black (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have always been attracted to the open games for both White and Black, and there are many good opening manuals to support that choice (John Emms's <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Games-Black-White-Avoids-Lopez/dp/1901983277" target="_blank">Play the Open Games as Black</a></i> is still a favorite of mine). I'm glad that Tamburro does not shy away from this approach, as it has always struck me as the most principled defense for Black and the one most likely to lead to fun and interesting games for amateurs. Tamburro recommends the Fritz Variation of the Two Knights Defense against the Italian and main lines against the Scotch. Sample games here include Sachs - Friedman, Cleveland 1948; </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1130979" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Spielmann–Eliskases, Match 1936</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1002083" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Showalter–Gossip, New York 1889</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; and </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1501135" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Smeets–M. Adams, Staunton Memorial 2008</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. In the last chapter of the book, Tamburro discusses the Ruy Lopez as White and Black, recommending the Marshall Gambit for serious students, but also discussing the fun to be had with the Schliemann (3...f5). For those interested, I had a couple of articles on GM Josh Friedel's use of the Fritz-Ulvestad Defense (see <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2009/friedel-ulvestad.htm" target="_blank">first</a> and <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2009/mackinnon-friedel.htm" target="_blank">second</a>) and a <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2009/09/two-knights-defense-fritz-ulvestad.html" target="_blank">webliography</a> and <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2005/11/two-knights-defense-as-black.html" target="_blank">commentary</a> on the Two Knights for Black. I also have an interesting piece on the <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2013/C55-Ng4.htm" target="_blank">Anti-Modern 5...Ng4</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sicilian Dragon (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For those who are not up to playing the open games as Black, Tamburro recommends the Sicilian Dragon, which was my own first line (picked up from the classic <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Think-Ahead-Chess-Techniques/dp/0671211382" target="_blank">How to Think Ahead in Chess</a> </i>by Fred Reinfeld and I.A. Horowitz). As Tamburro notes, you don't have to do a lot of deep opening study to get started with this line at the amateur level, but as you climb up the ratings ladder you will have to hit the books -- or at least check out my <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2009/07/sicilian-dragon-webliography.html" target="_blank">webliography</a>. Tamburro's sample games include </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1105421" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Vasiukov–Parma, Rijeka 1963</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1705263" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">M. Burrows–Felgaer, Gibraltar Masters 2013</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; and </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1031806" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Rauzer–Botvinnik, USSR Ch. 1933</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>English, Reversed Dragon (1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Bg2)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some years ago we had a <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2006/05/reversed-dragon.html" target="_blank">"Reversed Dragon" theme tournament</a> at the Kenilworth Chess Club, in which I really enjoyed participating. It definitely convinced me that this is a great line for amateurs, as Tamburro had already discussed in one of his ICC/Chess FM lectures. Here he outlines a repertoire that follows the games of former World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik: </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1032611" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Botvinnik–Lundin, Stockholm 1962</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1032787" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Botvinnik–Portisch, Monte Carlo 1968</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1032608" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Botvinnik–Söderborg, Stockholm 1962</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; and </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1032783" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Benko–Botvinnik, Monte Carlo 1968</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. I think a player who adopted this and the Sicilian Dragon as Black would have an interesting lifetime system. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Nimzo- and Bogo-Indian (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tamburro makes a great case for the Hübner Variation but also covers a wide range of methods of handling this solid defense. The </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hübner</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> was nicely discussed recently by Jeremy Silman in his series "<a href="http://www.chess.com/article/view/riding-the-winds-of-fashion" target="_blank">Riding the Winds of Fashion, Part One</a>" and "<a href="http://www.chess.com/article/view/riding-the-winds-of-fashion-part-2" target="_blank">Part Two</a>" at Chess.com, which should definitely convince you that this is an opening you will learn a lot from playing. Sample games from Tamburro's book include </span><a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1039957" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Pinter–Timman, Las Palmas Interzonal 1982</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1044723" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Spassky–Fischer, World Championship 1972</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1242955" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">González–Perrine, corr. 1943</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1619034" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Abramavicius–Ribera, Hamburg 1930</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; and </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1036739" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Colle - Capablanca, Karlsbad 1929</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Dutch Stonewall (1.d4 f5 2.c4 Nf6 3.g3 e6 4.Bg2 d5 5.Nf3 c6 6.O-O Bd6)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had noticed that Tamburro was playing the Dutch Stonewall in recent years, and his interest in the line may have been part of what led me to experiment with it myself. I put together an article on <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2012/03/stonewall-in-black-and-white-annotated.html" target="_blank">The Stonewall in Black and White</a>, which has been a favorite of readers ever since (probably my most popular article ever to judge from the stats). And the Stonewall definitely has much to recommend it, not least because of its well deserved reputation for leading to super-solid positions. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sample games include </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1031826" target="_blank">Flohr - Botvinnik, Match (10) 1933</a>; </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1003429" target="_blank">Marshall–Chigorin, Ostend 1905</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2557454" target="_blank">Gurevich - Illescas, Sanxenxo 2004</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1059799" target="_blank">Kasparov </a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1059799" target="_blank">- Illescas, Dos Hermanas 1996</a>; </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/656867" target="_blank">Turner–Agdestein, Tromsø 2008</a>; and <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1374385" target="_blank">Lenic - Kuzubov, World Youth 2005</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Ruy Lopez (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5)</b></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tamburro ends with "A Plea for the Ruy Lopez" as a great line for lifelong learning. But that one fell on deaf ears: like most amateurs, I will do anything to avoid the Spanish Torture, even by "flipping <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2013/01/ruy-lopez-birds-defense-c61-update.html" target="_blank">the Bird</a>" at the Lopez Bishop with 3...Nd4!? But this might be the best chapter in the book for those willing to listen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Overall, this is a great book with much to recommend it. </span><a href="http://www.mongoosepress.com/excerpts/OpeningsForAmateurs%20sample.pdf" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Download an excerpt</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> from the </span><a href="http://mongoosepress.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=35" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Mongoose</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> website for more details.</span></div>
Michael Goellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512012158305281566noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-5910821325287119802014-05-19T00:01:00.001-04:002014-05-19T09:18:30.487-04:00The Bird Defense (C61) of 40 Years Ago<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have been reading <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/421399" target="_blank"><i>40 Years of Friendship, 100 Games of Chess</i></a> by Wayne Conover, Steve Pozarek, and Eugene Salomon (Smashwords eBook 2014), which I picked up mostly out of nostalgia for New Jersey chess: I knew all three players when I was a young member of the Westfield Chess Club from 1979-1984. I also correctly predicted the book would contain some of former New Jersey champion <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/pozarek-C61.htm" target="_blank">Pozarek's games with the Bird Defense from the 1970s</a><u>,</u> which I have used to analyze the classic Bird line </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nd4 4.Nxd4 exd4 5.O-O c6 6.Bc4 Nf6 -- last popular about 40 years ago, but perhaps due for a revival.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> It was Pozarek who introduced me to the </span><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2013/01/ruy-lopez-birds-defense-c61-update.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Bird Defense</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> in a series of articles on this specific variation. That series began in the Westfield Chess Club Newsletter of March 1980 (edited by UNIX inventor Ken Thompson), in the same number that featured Wayne Conover's annotated victory over an IM and the crosstable of a 5-minute tournament where Gene Salomon finished second behind future IM Mike Valvo -- and a 14-year-old unrated kid named Mike Goeller finished in the middle of the strong field. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />In retrospect, I think it was also Pozarek who introduced me to the idea that amateurs can make useful contributions to chess theory. I am a collector of amateur chess memoirs and game collections like this one, and I find that I have often discussed in this blog the important contributions they offer to theory: Sidney Bernstein's <i><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2007/08/sidney-bernstein-plays-1nc6.html" target="_blank">Combat: My 50 years at the Chessboard</a> </i>shows ways of playing a <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2007/sidney-bernstein.htm" target="_blank">New York approach to 1...Nc6</a> and <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2011/04/sidney-bernsteins-dragon-ideas.html" target="_blank">...h5 in the Dragon</a> (among numerous other interesting ideas); Dr. Philip Corbin's <i><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2012/08/brief-review-of-calypso-chess.html" target="_blank">Calypso Ches</a>s</i> features games with the Smith-Morra Gambit and the <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2012/12/elephant-gambit-c40-bibliography_12.html" target="_blank">Elephant Gambit</a>; Asa Hoffmann's<i> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Chess-Gladiator-Asa-Hoffmann/dp/1879479311" target="_blank">Chess Gladiator</a> </i>offers a game with <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2006/06/janowskis-brother-indian.html" target="_blank">Janowski's Brother Indian</a> (among many other original opening ideas); Ariel Mengarini's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Predicament-2-Dimensions-Thinking-Chess-Player/dp/B000R020JC" target="_blank"><i>Predicament in Two Dimensions: The Thinking of a Chessplayer</i></a> illustrates <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/summer05/albin-nge7.htm" target="_blank">the Albin Counter Gambit with Nge7</a>; and Billy Colias's posthumous <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Billy-Colias-Rantala-Schil-Watson/dp/0945470568" target="_blank">Midwest Master</a> offers insight into the <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2006/colias-gp.htm" target="_blank">Grand Prix Attack for Black and White</a>. The spirit of <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2007/11/chess-amateurism.html" target="_blank">chess amateurism</a> is alive and well, and the present volume does not hesitate to offer up some opening novelties and insights of its own.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the middle section of the book, Conover, Pozarek, and Salomon offer contributions to theory in the Leningrad Dutch, the Caro Kann Defense, the Averbakh Variation of the King's Indian, and the Alekhine Defense. Though there should be fewer games and a little more theory in this part, it is still more than most readers would expect to find. This part of the book is made up mostly of games from Conover and Salomon, who studied together and played many of the same openings, but Pozarek tries his best with the Alekhine (using mostly his co-authors' games). Too bad he didn't think to write about <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/pozarek-C61.htm" target="_blank">the Bird</a>. I would have liked to see more off-beat openings like that one. After all, amateurs tend to experiment more than the pros.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Steve Goldberg's </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"</span><a href="http://www.chesscafe.com/Reviews/review937.htm" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Stories from Grandpa</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">" </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">at ChessCafe </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">offers two useful critiques of the book. I especially agree with his complaint about</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> the number of diagrams, considering that, as an e-book, it would not have cost anything to add more. I also agree with the implicit criticism in Goldberg's title, because the memoir part of the book seems less written for a general reader than, as Pozarek explicitly tell us, "first and foremost" for "families and friends." However, there are definitely some very good games in these pages against a lot of quality opposition, including a whos-who of Northeast chess history: Pal Benko, Joel Benjamin, John Fedorowicz, Arnold Denker, William Lombardy, Steve Stoyko, Leroy Dubeck, Scott Massey, Mike Valvo, Orest Popovych, and Edgar McCormick. It even has some simultaneous games against such one-name luminaries as Korchnoi, Petrosian and Alekhine(!) And practically none of these games will be found in the databases. In fact, if it were not for this book, all of these games would vanish and remain unknown, like so many great master games. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As with all amateur volumes, written as a "labor of love," it has something to offer those willing to take the time to look. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The following diagrams highlight some of the better moments enjoyed by these three players:</span><br />
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White to play and win.</td></tr>
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Black to play and win.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;">Solutions: (1) 46.Nf5! (forcing mate in 9 moves or fewer); (2) 14....Bxf2+!; and (3) 61.Rc4!! (the only way to win)</span></div>
Michael Goellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512012158305281566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-35861552131868546882014-05-12T00:08:00.001-04:002018-11-23T14:55:09.402-05:00The Dimock Theme Tournaments and The Brooklyn Daily Eagle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">While assembling and analyzing the games from the Alrick H. Man Vienna Gambit Theme Tournament of 1924-1925 for an article on the event (which should go up next week), I decided to do some more searching to see if any additional games from the tournament might be found. I began by double-checking <i>The Brooklyn Daily Eagle</i> (about which I wrote two years ago in "<a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2012/03/brooklyn-eagle-archive-online.html" target="_blank">The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Archive Online</a>") and discovered (thanks to help from researcher David Moody -- a.k.a. <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessuser?uname=Phony+Benoni" target="_blank">Phony Benoni</a> at Chessgames.com) that the entire <i>Eagle</i> archive is now searchable online at </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the </span><a href="http://newsstand.bklynpubliclibrary.org/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Brooklyn Newsstand</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (<a href="http://newsstand.bklynpubliclibrary.org/">http://newsstand.bklynpubliclibrary.org</a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">). The site is much easier to use than the <a href="http://fultonhistory.com/" target="_blank">Fulton History</a> website I discussed in my earlier post. The Brooklyn Newsstand was produced by <a href="http://newspapers.com/">Newspapers.com</a> but is free of charge; the larger site, meanwhile, charges about the same as Netflix, though they offer a <a href="http://www.newspapers.com/free/?iid=22" target="_blank">7-day free trial</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I found no additional games from the Alrick H. Man tournament, but I did turn up information about a number of Dimock theme tournament events and located many of the chess columns I had previously examined on microfilm. The search interface of the Brooklyn Newsstand has definitely encouraged me to return to my long-standing project to research all of the Dimock theme tournaments. I have been told by other chess researchers, who have looked through the <i>Eagle</i> archives for other information, that there were a large number of Dimock theme tournaments at the Marshall Chess Club, and I therefore suspect I have only scratched the surface in my research thus far. For instance, I have not yet identified the tournaments of 1928 or any that may have occurred in the 1930s or beyond (Harold Edwin Dimock lived until 1967 after all). And for some tournaments I only have scant information or a passing reference.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Most of my search for theme tournament news and games has focused on the <a href="http://fultonhistory.com/my%20photo%20albums/All%20Newspapers/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/index.html" target="_blank"><i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</i></a>, but this time I also searched the <a href="http://fultonhistory.com/my%20photo%20albums/All%20Newspapers/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post/index.html" target="_blank"><i>New York Evening Post</i></a> because it once had an excellent chess column as well. In fact, one of the <i>Post's</i> early columnists was <a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2010/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201912%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201912%20Grayscale%20-%201533.pdf" target="_blank">Emanuel Lasker</a>. I had learned that Horace Ransom Bigelow took over Lasker's column around the time of the Dimock and Alrick H. Man events. As Bigelow was often himself a participant in Dimock tournaments, it seemed likely he would have published some games. Unfortunately, I discovered that Bigelow's first column did not appear until <a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201925%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201925%20Grayscale%20-%205943.pdf" target="_blank">November 4, 1925</a>, which was after the early tournaments that interested me most. However, he did publish at least a couple of articles on the later Dimock events (such as <a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201926%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201926%20Grayscale%20-%203589.pdf" target="_blank">this one from June 2, 1926</a>), so I will have to look at his column some more to see if other Dimock games might be unearthed there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For those interested in locating Bigelow's columns in the <i>New York Evening Post </i>through the Fulton site: he was generally published on Wednesdays, typically in the entertainment section (often near the "Daily Cross-Word Puzzle") and under the title "The Chessboard" -- though he also published columns on other days, especially during major chess events. He also published a chess problem with every column, numbered sequentially beginning with "Problem No. 1" in that <a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201925%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201925%20Grayscale%20-%205943.pdf" target="_blank">first column</a>. So you can sometimes use "Problem No. X" or "Chess Problem No. X" as a search term to locate a specific column -- though, unfortunately, this does not always work due to the poor quality of some of the reproductions and the inaccurate optical character recognition (OCR) that results. Lasker's column "Over the Chess Board" also published about the same number of problems, by the way, and will also often appear in results using this method. Helms's chess column in the <i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle </i>usually appeared on Thursdays in the Sports section (section "A"), which was separately numbered and near the back of the paper, and it also featured a sequentially numbered chess problem that can sometimes help in locating specific dates. The column was usually published on Wednesday when Thursday was a holiday (especially Thanksgiving), and Helms often ran columns on additional days during major chess events. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The nice thing about the Brooklyn Newsstand site is that it only searches the <i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</i> archive and makes it easy to scroll through the pages (especially with the new viewer); so I often find it easiest to simply locate the Thursday papers by searching by date (e.g.: <a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/60023742/" target="_blank">September 29, 1921</a>) and then scroll to the Sports section to locate Helms's column. It helps to consult <a href="http://www.arc.id.au/Calendar.html" target="_blank">a historical calendar</a> before you start. (I mention all of these things because I wish I had that information myself before I began researching these columns and may thus save others some trouble).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The future for armchair chess historians is looking brighter every day. Besides the increasing number of options for researching newspaper columns, there is a growing library of free resources online, especially through Google Books. Already quite a few volumes of the <i>American Chess Bulletin </i>(see </span><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=CqJJAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">ACB 13-15 1916-1918</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=DaZJAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22american+chess+bulletin%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3nNuU6jbH8_lsAT8t4KgBw&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22american%20chess%20bulletin%22&f=false" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">ACB 18 1921</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">) and classic old books, such as </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=fFZAAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">Marshall's Chess Swindles</a>,</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> are available for free there.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> If I were a retired chess player with decent eyesight, a good internet connection, and obsessive compulsive tendencies (which I expect to be in less than 20 years), I think I could keep myself busy with chess history projects for the rest of my days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To give you some sense of what you can find in these old columns, I append the results of my research so far into the sponsored theme tournaments held at the Marshall Chess Club in the 1920s. This is an ongoing project so there are still quite a few gaps. As always, I welcome additions from interested or knowledgeable readers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Frank James Marshall, Bruno Forsberg, A.B. Hodges, and Charles Jaffe played in a double-round quadrangle tournament. I had intended to feature these games in my Urusov Gambit website, but their theoretical value did not merit close attention.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 15, 1921 (</span><a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/#60020344" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">) (Fulton) News and </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1462331" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Reshevsky - Duncan</a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 29, 1921 (</span><a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/#60023742" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">) (Fulton)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 6, 1921 (Brooklyn) (</span><a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201921%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201921%20Grayscale%20-%209128.pdf#xml=http://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=ffffffffeb22b695&DocId=8668453&Index=Z%3a%5cIndex%20O%2dG%2dT%2dS&HitCount=16&hits=d7a+17bf+17c0+17c1+189c+189d+1cb9+1cba+1cc3+1cc4+1cc5+1d72+1d73+1d74+1f0e+1f3a+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Fulton</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 13, 1921 (Brooklyn) (Fulton)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 20, 1921 (Brooklyn) (</span><a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201921%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201921%20Grayscale%20-%209628.pdf#xml=http://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=b625f73&DocId=8668953&Index=Z%3a%5cIndex%20O%2dG%2dT%2dS&HitCount=7&hits=84+841+849+9a2+9a3+9a4+1309+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Fulton</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 27, 1921 (Brooklyn) (Fulton)</span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=DaZJAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22american+chess+bulletin%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3nNuU6jbH8_lsAT8t4KgBw&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">American Chess Bulletin 18</a> (1921): 195.</td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Danish Gambit, Dimock Theme Tournament (1922)</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Frank Marshall (7.5), </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Marcel Duchamp (4.5), </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Anthony Santasiere (4.5), Horance Ransom Bigelow (2.5), and M. D. Hago (0). Hago did not complete his schedule and forfeited some games. Early entrant H. M. Philips withdrew. The tournament ran from the middle of October through the middle of November and has been thoroughly documented in Vlastimil Fiala's </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Chess-Biography-Marcel-Duchamp-1887-1968/dp/8071894206" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank"><i>The Chess Biography of Marcel Duchamp</i>: Volume One (1887-1925)</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">: 69-74, which was reviewed by </span><a href="http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review369.pdf" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank">John S. Hilbert</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">. Fiala notes: "no game, however, has so far been found from the tournament" (Fiala 70). My own explorations have not changed this sad fact, which makes this (in my view) one of the great losses to chess history. All we have are news accounts, including mentions in the </span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">New York Evening Post</i><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> (</span><a href="http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201922%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201922%20Grayscale%20-%204877.pdf" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">October 18, 1922</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">) and </span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The New York Times</i><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> (</span><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F05EEDA1139E133A25751C2A9669D946395D6CF" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank">October 22, 1922</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">) -- with enough news that standings for each round and the complete crosstable were reconstructed by Fiala. But no games have ever been found. I personally searched through the microfilm of </span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Brooklyn Daily Eagle</i><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> from this period about a decade ago but did not turn up any games either. Here are some of the first links to </span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Brooklyn Daily Eagle </i><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">chess columns for anyone who is interested:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 19, 1922 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201922%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201922%20a%20Grayscale%20-%200974.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 26, 1922 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201923%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201923%20a%20Grayscale%20-%202357.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">November 2, 1922 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/#57412760" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (Fulton)</span></li>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lasker Defense to the Evans Gambit, Dimock Theme Tournament (1923)</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Ba5 6.O-O d3 7.d4 Bb6</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Frank James Marshall, Anthony Santaslere, Rudolf Smirka, Bruno Forsberg, F. E. Parker, and Jacobs. Early entrants Horace Ransom Bigelow and </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Erling Tholfsen withdrew.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">June 7, 1923 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201923%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201923%20Grayscale%20-%204615.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Evans Gambit tourney announced</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 25, 1923 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/#58285182" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (Fulton)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">November 8, 1923 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/#60016627" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (Fulton)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">November 15, 1923 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/#60018623" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (Fulton)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">November 22, 1923 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201923%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201923%20a%20Grayscale%20-%200212.pdf#xml=http://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=ffffffffdca0ddea&DocId=8682013&Index=Z%3a%5cIndex%20O%2dG%2dT%2dS&HitCount=161&hits=15+18+30+36+37+38+46+63+7c+83+88+89+a0+a2+a9+b0+bb+cd+db+dc+dd+f3+f4+12b+12f+140+160+18b+19a+19b+19c+20e+22e+22f+290+292+295+29a+2a1+2a4+2a7+2aa+2d5+302+311+312+323+35e+378+431+43f+4b9+4ba+4da+519+52c+568+569+56b+58a+668+67b+67c+681+6bd+6c3+6cf+6da+6e7+6ee+6ef+6fb+71a+71b+71c+736+737+841+89b+89d+9d1+9d3+9da+9ed+a4d+a8a+b90+b9b+be5+de8+eb1+efa+efb+f05+f10+f40+f5e+f81+f85+f9d+fc0+1040+1059+105d+1096+10c7+10f1+10f3+1120+1140+1173+11aa+128e+12f9+1300+1305+1316+132f+134a+1353+135e+13c2+13e6+1415+1417+1430+144a+1483+149d+14df+151e+1572+15dd+15ec+15fb+1616+164e+167b+1695+1697+1729+1732+1773+177e+17a9+17c8+1877+1909+1996+19a1+1af5+1b6c+1b72+1b85+1bb9+1bfd+1c09+1c74+1cb5+1cb9+1cbf+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">December 27, 1923 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/#57570484" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (Fulton)</span></li>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/urusov/dimock/index.html" target="_blank">Urusov / Ponziani Gambit, Dimock Theme Tournament</a> (1924)</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.d4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Frank James Marshall, Carlos Torre, Anthony Santasiere, Erling Tholfsen, Rudolf Smirka, Horace Ransom Bigelow, and Bruno Forsberg. This tournament is fully documented at my <a href="http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/urusov/index.html" target="_blank">Urusov Gambit</a> / <a href="http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/urusov/dimock/index.html" target="_blank">Dimock Theme Tournament</a> site (which I assembled from the microfilm). It was an excellent event with theoretically significant games. Here are links to the original scores and news available in the online archive:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 2, 1924 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20a%20Grayscale%20-%202758.pdf#xml=http://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=fffffffff95d0fc6&DocId=8696157&Index=Z%3a%5cIndex%20O%2dG%2dT%2dS&HitCount=81&hits=3+5+8+a+c+18+19+1a+2a+3f+46+71+84+d2+db+11b+11c+121+12f+14a+151+18e+193+197+1ac+1b1+1d4+1d5+1d7+1ef+1f8+230+237+285+2d7+374+3b1+3b5+3db+3ea+453+4ed+533+552+57c+5ad+620+779+791+7b4+b37+b8f+cbc+eab+159d+1605+160b+165c+1676+1678+1979+1994+1a36+1b2d+1b75+1b97+1b9a+1bb9+1dd8+2157+21cb+21cd+21ce+21cf+21d1+21d2+21d3+21d5+21d7+21d8+21d9+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Urusov first games</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 5, 1924 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20a%20Grayscale%20-%202866.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) First round news</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 9, 1924 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20a%20Grayscale%20-%203034.pdf#xml=http://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=fffffffff9d6bebe&DocId=8696431&Index=Z%3a%5cIndex%20O%2dG%2dT%2dS&HitCount=95&hits=20+21+22+25+26+27+28+2d+2e+30+31+32+45+48+4d+58+5b+5c+86+8c+bf+ef+102+126+164+167+175+216+228+229+22e+28b+2bd+2ca+2e0+2ed+30e+3b4+4d6+52c+540+591+5b1+5bc+5bf+5c0+5c2+5f7+632+674+774+7ea+7ed+7ee+81a+820+a8c+a9f+c20+c61+c9c+ed0+ef3+f4a+1076+1083+1117+1190+1372+152c+15a8+17ae+17b5+17c7+17d6+1834+1855+1872+18b8+1bc4+1cc6+1e52+1f71+1f74+20e9+20eb+20ec+20ed+20ef+20f0+20f1+20f3+20f5+20f6+20f7+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Urusov</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 16, 1924 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20a%20Grayscale%20-%203309.pdf#xml=http://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=125a27bf&DocId=8696706&Index=Z%3a%5cIndex%20O%2dG%2dT%2dS&HitCount=31&hits=14+16+1c+253+25a+269+296+2b9+2cd+2d5+2df+2e9+30f+31f+338+33a+33b+348+4e4+4eb+5b4+1b1e+1c44+1d99+1d9c+1d9d+1da0+1da1+1da3+1da6+1da7+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Urusov news</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 23, 1924 (Brooklyn) (Fulton) - missing from the online record?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 30, 1924 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20a%20Grayscale%20-%203804.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Urusov</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">November 6, 1924 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20Grayscale%20-%208325.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Urusov</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">November 13, 1924 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20Grayscale%20-%208598.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Urusov</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">November 20, 1924 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/#57564177" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (<a href="http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20Grayscale%20-%208876.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Urusov games</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">November 26, 1924 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20Grayscale%20-%209121.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Urusov</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">December 4, 1924 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/#59856178" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (Fulton)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">December 11, 1924 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20a%20Grayscale%20-%204106.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Urusov</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">April 9, 1925 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/58329218/" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (Fulton) mention</span></li>
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<a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/vienna/images/alrick-man-theme.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img border="0" src="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/vienna/images/alrick-man-theme.jpg" height="100" width="320" /></span></a></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Vienna Gambit, Alrick H. Man Theme Tournament (1924-1925)</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4<br />Frank James Marshall, Carlos Torre, Erling Tholfsen, Horace Ransom Bigelow, Rudolf Smirka, C. E. Norwood, and G. Gustafson. The game <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/vienna/torre-norwood.htm" target="_blank">Torre - Norwood</a>, which I have already annotated online, only appeared in the <i>American Chess Bulletin</i>. <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/alrick-man-complete.htm" target="_blank">All of the games are now analyzed</a>, offering an introduction to the Vienna Gambit (C29).</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">December 24, 1924 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20a%20Grayscale%20-%200251.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Vienna</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">January 15, 1925 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201924%20a%20Grayscale%20-%200986.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Vienna</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">February 19, 1925 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201925%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201925%20Grayscale%20-%200712.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Vienna</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">February 26, 1925 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201925%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201925%20Grayscale%20-%200968.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Vienna</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">March 26, 1925 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/#59907045" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (Fulton) Vienna results</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">April 2, 1925 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201925%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201925%20Grayscale%20-%205938.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Vienna</span></li>
</ul>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Giuoco Piano, Dimock Theme Tournament (1925)</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c4 Nf6 5.d4 exd4 6.exd4 Bb4+ 7.Nc3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Frank James Marshall, Carlos Torre, Albert S. Pinkus, C. S. Howell, Anthony Santasiere, and Herman Steiner. This tournament might be my next project.</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 8, 1925 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/#59884330" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201925%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201925%20Grayscale%20-%209554.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Dimock Giuoco</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 15, 1925 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201925%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201925%20Grayscale%20-%209854.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Dimock Giuoco</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 22, 1925 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201925%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201925%20a%20Grayscale%20-%200157.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Dimock Giuoco</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 29, 1925 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201925%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201925%20a%20Grayscale%20-%200460.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Dimock Giuoco</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">November 5, 1925 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/#59842271" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201925%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201925%20a%20Grayscale%20-%200775.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Dimock Giuoco - news</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">November 12, 1925 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201925%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201925%20a%20Grayscale%20-%201049.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Dimock Giuoco</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">November 25, 1925 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/#58195037" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (Fulton) Dimock Giuoco</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">February 4, 1926 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/#59847010" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (Fulton) Dimock Giuoco - late game</span></li>
</ul>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sicilian Wing Gambit, Dimock Theme Tournament (1926) </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1.e4 c5 2.b4<br />It appears that this tournament was combined with the next, as players of the Black pieces were allowed to choose whether they preferred to play against the Sicilian Wing Gambit with 1...c5 2.b4 or the Evans Gambit following 1...e5 etc. A similar format, but with White choosing, was tried in 1927.</span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">May 13, 1926 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201926%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201926%20Grayscale%20-%205566.pdf#xml=http://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=8ac1018&DocId=8730190&Index=Z%3a%5cIndex%20O%2dG%2dT%2dS&HitCount=10&hits=19+25+26+1d5+1e7+1e8+273+274+117c+1182+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Wing Gambit mention</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">June 2, 1926 (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201926%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201926%20Grayscale%20-%203589.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton - NY Evening Post</a>)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">June 3, 1926 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/#57480182" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201926%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201926%20Grayscale%20-%206448.pdf#xml=http://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=42aadd3b&DocId=8731059&Index=Z%3a%5cIndex%20O%2dG%2dT%2dS&HitCount=5&hits=2f+30+1e2+290+291+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Wing Gambit game</span></li>
</ul>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Evans Gambit, Dimock Theme Tournament (1926)</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.O-O</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">May 6, 1926 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201926%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201926%20Grayscale%20-%205251.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Start of Dimock Evans theme tourney</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">May 20, 1926 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201926%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201926%20Grayscale%20-%205873.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Evans update</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">May 27, 1926 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201926%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201926%20Grayscale%20-%206160.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Evans games</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">June 2, 1926 (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201926%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201926%20Grayscale%20-%203589.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton - NY Evening Post</a>)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">June 3, 1926 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/#57480182" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201926%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201926%20Grayscale%20-%206448.pdf#xml=http://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=42aadd3b&DocId=8731059&Index=Z%3a%5cIndex%20O%2dG%2dT%2dS&HitCount=5&hits=2f+30+1e2+290+291+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Evans game</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">June 10, 1926 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/#57480589" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (<a href="http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201926%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201926%20Grayscale%20-%209074.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Evans games</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">June 17, 1926 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/#57480888" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (Fulton) Evans game</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">June 24, 1926 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/#57481178" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (Fulton) Evans conclusion</span></li>
</ul>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Cordel Ruy Lopez, Dimock Theme Tournament (1926-1927)</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Bc5</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 28, 1926 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/#57330447" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (Fulton)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">November 3, 1926 (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201926%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201926%20Grayscale%20-%207251.pdf#xml=http://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=ffffffff84ed8233&DocId=5422455&Index=Z%3a%5cIndex%20U%2dF%2dP&HitCount=6&hits=b79+13c2+13d7+13d9+18d9+18e0+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton - NY Evening Post</a>)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">January 20, 1927 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/#58225588" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (Fulton)</span></li>
</ul>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Budapest Defense and Alekhine, Dimock Theme Tournament (1927)</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 or 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Anthony Santasiere, Rudolf Smirka, Fred Reinfeld, Milton Hanauer, H. Fajans, and T. M. Croney. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">White could choose to play against the Budapest or the Alekhine Defense. </span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">December 8, 1927 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/59865897/" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201927%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201927%20Grayscale%20-%202613.pdf#xml=http://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=486155b8&DocId=8747986&Index=Z%3a%5cIndex%20O%2dG%2dT%2dS&HitCount=8&hits=1b+25+35+5c+87+22b+243+2a96+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Santasiere games.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">December 22, 1927 (Brooklyn) (</span><a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201927%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201927%20Grayscale%20-%203126.pdf#xml=http://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=21ad4e6b&DocId=8748499&Index=Z%3a%5cIndex%20O%2dG%2dT%2dS&HitCount=10&hits=795+79a+ce9+d93+d98+de8+e06+ed5+1c2c+2399+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Fulton</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">) final results</span></li>
</ul>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">English Opening, Dimock Theme Tournament (1929)</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1.c4 e5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Frank James Marshall, Erling Tholfsen, Fred Reinfeld and others.</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">April 18, 1929 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/59879689/" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (Fulton) - news</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">May 2, 1929 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/58261431/" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (Fulton) - news only</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">May 9, 1929 (Brooklyn) (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201929%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201929%20Grayscale%20-%205415.pdf#xml=http://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=762c081d&DocId=8775572&Index=Z%3a%5cIndex%20O%2dG%2dT%2dS&HitCount=146&hits=4+5+11+12+13+fa+1bc+297+47f+4ba+4fd+5bd+62d+689+6b6+6e4+75e+889+8cc+8e1+926+928+961+983+a34+ac4+acb+af3+b0e+b5f+b94+ba4+ba5+bad+bd6+bd7+bd8+c38+cda+ce6+cfa+ea0+ea9+f1c+105b+10a9+1133+11ad+11bd+1255+1350+1388+139c+13b2+14c3+14f1+14f2+14fe+1534+1558+155c+155d+1585+158b+1591+159e+159f+15b3+15b7+15ba+15d2+15d3+15dc+1601+1611+161a+161f+1623+1624+162a+1639+1646+1647+164f+1650+1668+1669+1683+1689+16a5+16da+175c+1769+1772+1780+1789+178a+17bf+17c0+17ce+17e8+17e9+17ea+17f6+189a+1924+1928+1ac3+1b1b+1b70+1c46+1c47+1c52+1ca8+1d12+1d13+1d14+1d25+1dd8+1dee+1e1d+1e46+1e5d+1e6e+1e70+1e7e+1ef8+1f0d+1f34+1f3f+1f4c+1f98+1fa6+1fbb+1fd6+1fe1+2094+20ea+20ec+20ed+20ee+20f0+20f1+20f4+20f6+20f7+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) - one sentence of news</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">May 23, 1929 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/#58263108" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201929%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201929%20Grayscale%20-%206049.pdf#xml=http://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=ffffffffe9bb7197&DocId=8776206&Index=Z%3a%5cIndex%20O%2dG%2dT%2dS&HitCount=4&hits=151c+151d+151e+151f+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">May 30, 1929 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/#58264868" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (Fulton)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">June 6, 1929 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/#59855284" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (Fulton) mention only</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">July 25, 1929 (<a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/#59859636" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>) (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201929%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201929%20Grayscale%20-%208003.pdf#xml=http://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=ffffffff960cd699&DocId=8778160&Index=Z%3a%5cIndex%20O%2dG%2dT%2dS&HitCount=10&hits=246+cdf+1191+11a6+11b4+1221+122d+12ac+139f+149c+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf" target="_blank">Fulton</a>) Tholfsen - Reinfeld</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Unknown, Dimock Theme Tournament (1929)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Erling Tholfsen, Frank James Marshall, Fred Reinfeld, M. Hanauer. I did not find additional mention of the event in <a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/59885136/" target="_blank">November 7</a>, <a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/59899079/" target="_blank">November 21</a>, or <a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/58268059/" target="_blank">December 5</a> issues.</span></div>
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<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">November 14, 1929 (</span><a href="http://bklynpl.newspapers.com/image/59892064/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">) (Fulton)</span></li>
</ul>
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Michael Goellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512012158305281566noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-24762418506176540662014-05-05T00:19:00.000-04:002019-03-12T08:58:53.676-04:00Vienna Gambit (C29) Bibliography<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have decided to return to my project on the <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2011/01/alrick-h-man-vienna-gambit-theme.html" target="_blank">Alrick Man Vienna Gambit Theme Tournament of 1924-1925</a>, so I thought I'd compile a bibliography on the Vienna Gambit (C29), which opens 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 and usually continues 3...d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 when White then has a choice among 5.d3, 5.Qf3 and 5.Nf3. Part of my inspiration for returning to the Alrick Man project comes from an article in <a href="http://www.newinchess.com/Yearbook_110-p-221.html" target="_blank"><i>New in Chess Yearbook </i>#110</a> (2014), which presents the Vienna Gambit as an interesting territory in which to "just play chess" in creative ways, as in the game <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1737324" target="_blank">Jobava - Mamedyarov, Warsaw 2013</a>. This is an attractive idea, and one I think the Alrick Man games demonstrate. You can also find a lot of creativity in the games of other players who have favored the Vienna Gambit, including Jonny Hector, Dragoljub Janošević, Heikki Westerinen, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Karel Hromadka, and Rudolf Spielmann.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Vienna Gambit might make an interesting addition to a Four Knights repertoire, starting 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 when you can choose between 3.Nf3 or 3.f4!? for times when you are looking for an offbeat adventure. Vienna Gambit game collections can be found at <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessopening?eco=c29">Chessgames (C29)</a>, <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?playercomp=white&pid=10264&eco=C29&title=Spielmann+playing+Vienna+Gambit+(C29)+as+White+" target="_blank">Spielmann playing C29 as White</a>, <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1012869" target="_blank">Vienna Gambit 3...exf4? 4.e5</a>, <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1011369" target="_blank">Vienna Gambit f5 Variation</a>, <a href="http://www.365chess.com/eco/C29_Vienna_gambit" target="_blank">365 Chess</a>, <a href="http://chess-db.com/public/opening.jsp?name=Vienna%20Gambit,%20Vienna&code=C29&id=1344" target="_blank">Chess-DB</a>, <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/opening/2655" target="_blank">ChessTempo</a>, <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/opening/2657" target="_blank">ChessTempo2</a>, <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/opening/2656" target="_blank">ChessTempo1</a>, and <a href="http://www.chessage.com/database/opbrowser.php/eco/C29" target="_blank">ChessAge</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Meagre Prospects of Success" by Martin Breutigam, <a href="https://chessbaseusa.com/all-products/533-chessbase-magazine-169" target="_blank">ChessBase Magazine #169</a> (December 2015 - January 2016). A very critical consideration of White's chances, focusing on the main lines that follow 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4, which include: 5.Qf3 as in <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1461195" target="_blank">Nakamura - Yermolinsky, Stillwater 2007</a> which continued 5...Nc6! 6.Bb5 Nxc3 7.dxc3 Qh4+ 8.g3 Qe4+ 9.Qxe4 dxe4 10.Bf4?! (the Sveshnikov's prefer 10.Be3!) with a complex ending where Black had better chances than the result would suggest, according to Breutigam; 5.d3 when Black is already better after 5...Nxc3 6.bxc3 d4!; and 5.Nf3 when Black can try 5...Be7 or 5...Bc5! as in <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1737324" target="_blank">Jobava - Mamedyarov, Warsaw 2013 </a>and other games. A very challenging article for players as White, and more evidence that 5.Qf3 may indeed be White's best try. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Chess-Opening-Repertoire-Blitz-Rapid/dp/9056916033" target="_blank">A Chess Opening Repertoire for Blitz and Rapid: Sharp, Surprising and Forcing Lines for Black and White</a> by Evgeny and Vladimir Sveshnikov, New in Chess 2015.<br />A wonderful book with lots of interesting lines, including the Vienna Game and Gambit (pp. 333 - 398). The father and son authors focus appropriately on the line 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Qf3! which increasingly looks like White's best chance for getting a playable game and even the initiative, especially in blitz and rapid chess. Main Vienna Gambit games discussed include Najdorf - Chaves, Sao Paulo simul 1947; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1679840" target="_blank">Lagarde - Bouget, Avoire Open 2012</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1094912" target="_blank">Spielmann - Marshall, Breslau 1912</a>; and <a href="https://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1794404" target="_blank">Depasquale - Charles, Suncoast 1999</a>, but many more games are discussed and analyzed in the notes. They also analyze 2...Bc5 3.f4! and 2...Nc6 3.Bc4. Other openings covered include, for Black, the Alekhine and Queen's Gambit Accepted and, for White, the 2.b3 Sicilian, the Two Knights French, and the Two Knights Caro-Kann.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"A Worthy Alternative" by Alexander Finkel, <i><a href="http://www.newinchess.com/Yearbook_110-p-221.html" target="_blank">New in Chess Yearbook #110</a></i> (2014): 135-139. Focuses on the line 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Nf3 Bc5!, featuring the recent game </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1737324" target="_blank">Jobava - Mamedyarov, Warsaw 2013</a>, which continued 6.Qe2!? Bf5! 7.Nd1 with complex play, though Black clearly has the initiative. Other games include <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1795075" target="_blank">Lehtivaara - Virtanen, Finland Junior Ch 1987</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1795082" target="_blank">Uritzky - Kogan, Tel Aviv 1996</a>; Pedersen - Ochsner, Denmark tt 2001-2002; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=3876916" target="_blank">Lemmers - Vedder, Netherlands tt 2013-2014</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1600012" target="_blank">Andreikin - Kramnik, Moscow WCh Blitz 2010</a>; Milotai - Fichtl, Brno 1957; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=3811788" target="_blank">Hector - Hagen, Copenhagen 2012</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1795165" target="_blank">Ljubojevic - Ciocaltea, Skopje ol 1972</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1795171" target="_blank">Narmontas - Gustafsson, Warsaw rapid 2008</a>; and <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=1790451" target="_blank">Vavra - Fernandez Garcia, Barcelona tt 1993</a>. A close look at the line suggests that the classic 5.Nf3 is put into question by 5....Bc5!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"</span><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2011/01/alrick-h-man-vienna-gambit-theme.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Alrick H. Man Vienna Gambit Theme Tournament</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">" by Michael Goeller, Kenilworth Chess Club (January 2011). My first and (until 3 years later) last article on this theme tournament at the Marshall Chess Club that ran from December 1924 - April 1925 and was sponsored by club member and philanthropist Alrick H. Man. In this first article, I had annotated the game </span><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/vienna/torre-norwood.htm" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Carlos Torre - C. E. Norwood</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, which began 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Qe2! I will soon be posting all of the games from this theme tournament. <b>Update:</b> <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-complete-alrick-h-man-vienna-gambit.html" target="_blank">the final article on this tournament</a> contained <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/alrick-man-complete.htm" target="_blank">all games and analysis</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/davies_vienna" target="_blank">The Vienna with 3.f4</a> by Nigel Davies, ChessBase DVD (2011)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Besides the traditional lines such as 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 and 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.Nf3 g5 5.h4 g4 6.Ng5 h6 7.Nxf7, Davies examines modern treatments such as 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5 4.exd5 and 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.Nf3 g5 5.d4 d6 6.d5!?. He also shows why many of the typical reactions at club level are bad. Video running time: 4 hours." Also at <a href="http://www.chesscentral.com/chess_software_opening_p/vienna-3f4.htm" target="_blank">ChessCentral</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<a href="http://www.westmichiganchess.com/authors/Subhodh/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=244b1553-c8ff-40a3-a27b-22f977f210c0&ID=4&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ewestmichiganchess%2Ecom%2Fauthors%2FSubhodh%2FLists%2FPosts%2FAllPosts%2Easpx" target="_blank">Vienna Gambit - 5. d3</a>" by Subhodh Kotekal & Tony Palmer, West Michigan Chess (2011).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<a href="http://www.westmichiganchess.com/authors/Subhodh/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=244b1553-c8ff-40a3-a27b-22f977f210c0&ID=3&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ewestmichiganchess%2Ecom%2Fauthors%2FSubhodh%2FLists%2FPosts%2FAllPosts%2Easpx" target="_blank">Vienna Gambit - 5. Nf3</a>" by Subhodh Kotekal & Tony Palmer, West Michigan Chess (2011). Some questionable analysis and old sources, but not a bad overview. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Boris Alterman, Vienna Gambit video lecture series at ICC (2010). </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Part One (</span><a href="http://webcast.chessclub.com/preview/Alterman/2010_02_25/Alterman_preview.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Preview</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, </span><a href="https://webcast.chessclub.com/icc/i/Alterman/2010_02_25/Alterman_GGuide.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Members</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">); Part Two (</span><a href="http://webcast.chessclub.com/preview/Alterman/2010_03_04/Alterman_preview.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Preview</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, </span><a href="https://webcast.chessclub.com/icc/i/Alterman/2010_03_04/Alterman_GGuide.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Members</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">); Part Three (</span><a href="http://webcast.chessclub.com/preview/Alterman/2010_03_11/Alterman_preview.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Preview</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, </span><a href="https://webcast.chessclub.com/icc/i/Alterman/2010_03_11/Alterman_GGuide.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Members</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">); Part 4 (</span><a href="http://webcast.chessclub.com/preview/Alterman/2010_03_18/Alterman_preview.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Preview</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, </span><a href="https://webcast.chessclub.com/icc/i/Alterman/2010_03_18/Alterman_GGuide.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Members</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">) - requires Windows Media Player.</span><br />
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<a href="http://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/the_abc_of_the_vienna" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">The ABC of the Vienna</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> by Andrew Martin, ChessBase DVD (2009)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.chesscafe.com/text/lima01.pdf" target="_blank">Reviewed by Louis Lima</a>. "IM Andrew Martin argues that the Vienna is a good practical choice. White can steer the game into all manner of interesting positions according to Black’s response. He may play sharply or positionally. Black must respond very accurately to demonstrate equality. Video running time: 3 hours 42 minutes."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140627022912/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/lane119.pdf" target="_blank">The Rough Guide to Vienna</a>" by Gary Lane, </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140627022912/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/lane119.pdf" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Opening Lanes #119</a> at<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> ChessCafe (2008). </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Discusses some games where Black plays the passive d6 defense, which is generally not effective against the Vienna.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.chessvideos.tv/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8483" target="_blank">The Art of Sacrifice in Chess, Game 20</a> by Katar, ChessVideos.tv (2007). A useful commentary on the game Spielmann - Flamberg 1914.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://pawnsprogress.blogspot.com/2006/10/shock-and-awe-with-vienna-gambit.html">Shock and Awe in the Vienna Gambit</a> by George Eraclides, Pawn's Progress blog (October 2006). </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">An interesting game of the author's with the Oxford d3 line and eventual O-O-O!?</span><br />
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<a href="http://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/wiener_partie_c23-c29" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">The Vienna Game C23-C29</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> by Gregory Huber, </span><a href="http://www.chessbaseusa.com/NEWStore/ProductDetail/tabid/728/ProductID/248/Default.aspx" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">ChessBase</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (2006). Reviewed by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140627074459/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen85.pdf" target="_blank">Hansen</a>. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"The work consists of a clearly laid out database containing 26 texts and 330 games, 220 of which have been annotated by the author. In addition there is a large database containing more than 27,000 games (a good 300 of which have been annotated), a training database with 124 training questions and a large opening tree constructed from all the games."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Play-1e4-e5-Complete-Repertoire/dp/1857444019" target="_blank">Play 1.e4 e5!</a> by Nigel Davies, Everyman Chess (2005): 178-182. Takes as its main game <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1068800" target="_blank">Hellers - Karpov, Haninge 1990</a> and also discusses <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1794551" target="_blank">Milner-Barry - Haygarth, Sunderland 1966</a> and </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1030738" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Hromadka - Bogoljubow, Mahrisch-Ostrau 1923</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140627083618/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/lane75.pdf" target="_blank">Sideways</a>" by Gary Lane, Opening Lanes #75 at ChessCafe (March 2005)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Looks at Black's options in the </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wurzburger Trap line, based on analysis by reader Patrick Byrne, where Black might save himself by </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.d3 Qh4+ 6.g3 Nxc3!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/ChessCentral-White-Repertoire-for-1-e4/dp/B001DYJ602/" target="_blank">White Repertoire 1.e4</a> by Alexander Bangiev, ChessBase CD (2003)<br />Though I do not agree with all of Bangiev's opinions on these lines, I think he makes a very thorough and useful presentation and analysis, covering lots of lines and offering many analyzed games. The rest of the repertoire is very interesting, along the lines of "<a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2011/02/big-clamp.html" target="_blank">the Big Clamp</a>" theme. If you are interested in lines with an early f4 for White, get a copy of this while it still exists. You can find a useful review at <a href="http://seagaard.dk/review/eng/sw_opening/cb_white_repertoire_1_e4.asp?KATID=SW&ID=SW-Opening&PUBID=CB&AUTID=132" target="_blank">Seagaard by Pelle Bank</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030608043651/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/lane50.pdf" target="_blank">How to Win on the Internet</a>" by Gary Lane, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Opening Lanes #50 at ChessCafe (2002). </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Discusses some games of interest to Vienna theory, including 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 d6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Bb5 and 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 f5 3.exf5 with a King's Gambit Accepted plus extra tempo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140627082433/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/lane45.pdf" target="_blank">Fischer Plays Again</a>" by Gary Lane, Opening Lanes #45 at ChessCafe (September 2002)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Looks at the Wurzburger Trap line from the White perspective.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"The Romantic 5.Qf3: Classical Main Line 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Qf3 " by A.C Van der Tak, </span><a href="http://www.newinchess.com/Yearbook_62-p-250.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank"><i>New in Chess Yearbook</i> #62</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (2002): 123-128. Sample games include <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1794458" target="_blank">Sax - Pavasovic, Nova Gorica 2001</a>; Noskov - Kunits, Correspondence USSR 1936; Swanson - Baker, England tt 2000; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1230154" target="_blank">Arnaudov - Hristov, Teteven 1991</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1794404" target="_blank">Depasquale - Charles, Suncoast 1999</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=356369" target="_blank">Darvall - Lovejoy, Canberra 2001</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1228714" target="_blank">Grau - Van Schelinga, Buenos Aires ol 1939</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1230775" target="_blank">Shaw - Parker, Hastings 1995-1996</a>; Vankov - Angelov, Corr. ch Great Britain 1992; Vankov - Sergiev, Corr. ch Great Britain 1992; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1130779" target="_blank">Spielmann - Schenkein, Vienna 1913</a>; Vankov - Unglaub, Correspondence 1991; <a href="http://chess-db.com/public/game.jsp?id=2400251.402257.42319104" target="_blank">Swanson - Yeo, Great Britain 1998</a>; Schwarzbach - Chalupetzky, Correspondence 1908; Antal - Lukacs, Budapest 2000; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1228641" target="_blank">Hromadka - Lasker, Mahrisch Ostrau 1923</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1794356" target="_blank">Kazic - Poljakov, Novi Sad 1945</a>; Koniger - Maler, Munchen 1993; and <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1228338" target="_blank">Paulsen - Schiffers, Breslau 1889</a>, among others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Vienna-Game-Gary-Lane/dp/1857442717/" target="_blank">Vienna Game</a></i> by Gary Lane, Everyman Chess (2000): 10-41. I find Gary Lane's book useful, but his goal is to survey the opening for both players and not necessarily to identify the best lines for White. He focuses most on 5.Nf3, where he says that "'If in doubt play Qe2' could be White's slogan in this line" -- though he thinks White must meet 5....Bc5! by 6.d4 Bb4 7.Bd2 where the Vorotnikov game is an interesting try. Main games include <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1014557" target="_blank">Adams - Anand, Linares (4) 1994</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=1670989" target="_blank">Adams - Xu Jun, Cap d'Agde 1994</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2912133" target="_blank">Murshed - Babu, Sakthi 1996</a>; <a href="http://chess-db.com/public/game.jsp?id=10000004022.14601982.88317184" target="_blank">Flaisigova - Krivec, World Junior Ch 1998</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1329388" target="_blank">Yegiazarian - Estrada, Linares 1999</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=1696194" target="_blank">De la Riva - Fernandez, Barcelona 1993</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=1169579" target="_blank">Vorotnikov - Kuzmin, Orel 1997</a>; </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1230171" target="_blank">Bauer - Heidenfeld, Zell 1991</a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1795095" target="_blank">Lehtivaara - Flear, Lenk 1992</a>; Mallahi - Quintero, World Junior Ch 1999; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=1552191" target="_blank">Bronstein - Malaniuk, Hastings 1995</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1230302" target="_blank">Polasek - Vrana, Prague 1992</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2655081" target="_blank">Biolek - Mokry, Olomouc 1997</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1129584" target="_blank">Seret - Spassky, French Ch 1990</a>; Kunte - Garbisu, World Junior Ch 1995; Gruettner - Kraus, Giessen 1991; Kimenko - Navabi, World Junior Ch 1999; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1795019" target="_blank">Antal - Lengyel, Budapest 1998</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1794404" target="_blank">Depasquale - Charles, Australian Open 1999</a>; Koeniger - Maier, Munich 1993; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1794157" target="_blank">Paglilla - Blatny, Buenos Aires 1998</a>; and <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=1335785" target="_blank">Maslachenko - Skatchkov, Orel 1996</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Play-Open-Games-As-Black/dp/1901983277" target="_blank">Play the Open Games as Black</a></i> by John Emms, Gambit (2000): 30-35.<br />Emms offers a very good repertoire for Black and good analysis to support it. His treatment of the Vienna, while naturally biased toward Black, is worth examining. Sample games include <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1229053" target="_blank">Vorotnikov - Kapengut, USSR 1975</a>; </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1228641" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Hromadka - Lasker, Mahrisch Ostrau 1923</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; <a href="http://www.redhotpawn.com/chess/grandmaster-games/viewmastergame.php?pgnid=108160&subject=Vladimir_Vulfson_vs_Andor_Lilienthal" target="_blank">Vulfson - Lilienthal, Kuibyshev 1942</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1030738" target="_blank">Hromadka - Bogoljubow, Mahrisch-Ostrau 1923</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1230264" target="_blank">Hon - Van der Sterren, London 1992</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1229481" target="_blank">Sax - Plaskett, Lugano 1986</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1795165" target="_blank">Ljubojevic - Ciocaltea, Skopje OL 1972</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1229988" target="_blank">L'Hoste - Boudre, Val Maubuee 1990</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1229551" target="_blank">Sorensen - Flear, Hastings 1988</a>; <a href="http://chess-db.com/public/game.jsp?id=2400251.2200023.88131328" target="_blank">Swanson - Fernandez Garcia, Lucerne OL 1982</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1795082" target="_blank">Uritzky - Kogan, Tel Aviv 1996</a>; </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1229102" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Janosevic - Baretic, Yugoslavia 1977</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; and <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1795094" target="_blank">Boog - Godena, Geneva 1993</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140627041352/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/lane07.pdf" target="_blank">The English in Exile?</a>" by Gary Lane, Opening Lanes #7 at ChessCafe (July 1999)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Looks at 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 f5?! But <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20020110124034/http://www.fortunecity.de/olympia/maradona/151/latvian.html" target="_blank">the best answer is 3.Nf3!</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Vienna-Batsford-Chess-Library/dp/0805039090" target="_blank"><i>The Complete Vienna</i></a> by Mikhail Tseitlin and I. B. Glazkov, Batsford (1995). A little dated, though some analysis in various lines is interesting. Considers 5.Qe2 (Paulsen's move, which is not so inspiring), 5.Qf3 (where discussion of the line 5...Nc6! 6.Bb5 Nxc3 is still focused around 7.bxc3?! even though the authors note that 7.dxc3 is forced), 5.d3 when 5...Bb4!? and 5...Nxc3 6.bxc3 d4 are given deep treatment, and 5.Nf3 where the authors look at a wide range of Black responses but definitely show 5...Bc5! to spell trouble for White.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.schachversand.de/e/detail/buecher/1996.html" target="_blank">Die Wiener Partie</a> by Laszlo Jakobetz and Laszlo Somlai, Reinhold Dreier Verlag (1994)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Vienna-Game-Gambit-Part-1/dp/B0046UZXL6/" target="_blank">Vienna Game and Gambit, Part 1</a> by Colin Leach (1993)<br />Part of a three-part series of pamphlets, with the first covering 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Vienna Game: Hector vs Hector" by René Olthof with notes by Alexander Bangiev, <a href="http://www.newinchess.com/Archives/SurveysList.aspx?&YearbookID=17" target="_blank"><i>New in Chess Yearbook </i>#30</a> (1993): </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; white-space: pre;"> 75-80. Features the </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Classical Main Line 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Nf3 Be7 6.Qe2. Rollig - Hector, Berlin 1993; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1130808" target="_blank">Spielmann - Kaufmann, Vienna 1917</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1795575" target="_blank">Florian - Lilienthal, Budapest - Moscow 1949</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1042048" target="_blank">Euwe - Reti, Bad Pistyan 1922</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1003821" target="_blank">Spielmann - Maroczy, Teplitz - Schonau 1922</a>; </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1130831" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Spielmann - Reti, Vienna 1922</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1007375" target="_blank">Spielmann - Yates, Marienbad 1925</a>; </span><a href="http://www.mark-weeks.com/aboutcom/pal4/zopening/blzope41.htm" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Konstantinopolsky - Keres, Moscow 1940</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2233030" target="_blank">Hector - Schmid, Metz 1988</a>; Hector - Brull, Lagnisko 1988; Hector - Blauert, Berlin 1988; Hector - Kakageldiev, Manilla 1992; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1795497" target="_blank">Hector - Brinck, Naestved 1988</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1795449" target="_blank">Hector - Campora, Royan 1988</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1229584" target="_blank">Hector - Chibu</a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1229584" target="_blank">rdanidze, Berlin 1988</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2227783" target="_blank">Hector - Z. Polgar, Val Maubuee 1988</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1063585" target="_blank">Hector - Ivkov, Cannes 1989</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1229875" target="_blank">Hector - Inkiov, Kobenhavn 1990</a>; <a href="http://www.chess.com/games/view?id=197219" target="_blank">Westerinen - Matanovic, Forssa 1972</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1229027" target="_blank">Westerinen - Lengyel, San Feliu 1973</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2452049" target="_blank">Gurieli - Akmilovskaya, Frunze 1975</a>; Ekebjaerg - Kramer, Correspondence 1988; Hellers - Karpov, Haninge 1990; Bangiev - Kunze, Berlin 1993; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1002262" target="_blank">Blackburne - Judd, New York 1889</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1228861" target="_blank">Janosevic - Gligoric, Beograd 1964</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1228923" target="_blank">Janosevic - Reshevsky, Maribor 1967</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1229102" target="_blank">Janosevic - Baretic, Yugoslavia 1977</a>; and Bangiev - Howell, Biel 1993.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Vienna-Game-Gambit-Santasiere/dp/0875682049" target="_blank"><i>The Vienna Game and Gambit</i>, Revised 2nd edition</a>, by A.E. Santasiere and Ken Smith, Chess Digest (1992)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Vienna Game: Oxford Variation" by A.C Van der Tak, <a href="http://www.newinchess.com/Archives/SurveysList.aspx?&YearbookID=27" target="_blank"><i>New in Chess Yearbook</i> #19</a> (1991): 60-63. A survey of games with the </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Classical Main Line 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.d3 with useful notes on the game <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1129584" target="_blank">Seret - Spassky, Angers 1990</a>, and then a collection of very lightly annotated games, including <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1151942" target="_blank">Znosko-Borovsky - Cohn, St. Petersburg 1909</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1130864" target="_blank">Hromadka - Spielmann, Prague 1924</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1228800" target="_blank">Heidenfeld - Roele, Amsterdam 1954</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1228805" target="_blank">Milner-Barry - Hanninen, Moscow ol 1956</a>; Beckers - Denckens, Correspondence Belgium 1961; Kirby - Wilken, Correspondence South Africa 1961; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1228904" target="_blank">Noskov - Stoliar, Leningrad 1966</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1229051" target="_blank">Sax - Ciocaltea, Vrnjacka Banja 1974</a>; and <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1794560" target="_blank">Iskov - Donner, Swendborg 1981</a>, among others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.schachversand.de/d/detail/buecher/179.html" target="_blank"><i>Der Wiener Partie</i></a> by </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jerzy Konikowski, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Münster Verlag (1990)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Vienna-Tournament-players-repertoire-openings/dp/0713436158/" target="_blank"><i>Vienna Game</i></a> by Alexander Konstantinopolsky Vladimir Lepeshkin, Batsford (1986)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Accomplishes significantly less in 119 pages than Harding does in 104, with only 11 pages devoted to the Vienna Gambit and a mere mention of 5.Qf3 when 5...f5 is said to equalize, which Harding had already shown to be in doubt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Vienna-Opening-Chess-player-Harding/dp/0900928689" target="_blank">Vienna Opening</a></i>, Tim Harding, Batsford (1976)<br />The Vienna Gambit sections focus most on 5.Nf3 and 5.d3, both of which receive their own chapters, while analysis of 5.Qf3 f5!? offers some depth thanks to the discussion of a series of articles in the Soviet journal 64. A useful historical reference, with very good discussion of historical developments. In English Descriptive notation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Vienna-Game-Gambit-Santasiere/dp/0875682049" target="_blank">The Vienna Game and Gambit</a> by A. E. Santasiere, Chess Digest Books (1974): 51-66. Relatively little of the pamphlet is devoted to the Vienna Gambit, with the majority of attention devoted to Weaver Adams's favorite lines of the Bishop's Opening, including the Frankenstein-Dracula variation. In this section, game references include Christiansen - Schulz, Roskilde 1968; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1135511" target="_blank">Sultan Khan - Weenimk, Liege 1930</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1130808" target="_blank">Spielman - Kaufmann, Vienna 1917</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1795575" target="_blank">Florian - Lilienthal, Budapest 1949</a>; <a href="http://chess-db.com/public/game.jsp?id=8000004275.8000000545.88322560" target="_blank">Spielmann - Teichmann, Teplitz - Schoner 1922</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1228942" target="_blank">Janosevic - Wade, Solingen 1968</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1228922" target="_blank">Janosevic - Lengyel, Maribor 1967</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1228923" target="_blank">Janosevic - Reshevsky, Maribor 1965</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1228861" target="_blank">Janosevic - Gligoric, Belgrade 1964</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1130852" target="_blank">Spielmann - Loman, Schevenigen 1923</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1130831" target="_blank">Spielmann - Reti, Vienna 1922</a>; <a href="http://www.mark-weeks.com/aboutcom/pal4/zopening/blzope41.htm" target="_blank">Konstantinopolsky - Keres, Moscow 1940</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1119877" target="_blank">Mattison - Rubinstein, Prague 1931</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1031875" target="_blank">Kan - Botvinnik, Moscow 1935</a>; Chartinonaschuilli - Agschamov, Kaluga 1968; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2623137" target="_blank">Westerinen - Camilleri, Raach 1969</a>; van der Weide - Horne, Hastings 1967; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1130929" target="_blank">Spielmann - Yates, Prague 1931</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1007600" target="_blank">Spielmann - Vidmar, Semmering 1926</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1119717" target="_blank">Mieses - Rubinstein, Match 1909</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1003585" target="_blank">Wolf - Vidmar, Carlsbad 1907</a>; Euwe - Yates, Hague 1921; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1130800" target="_blank">Spielmann - Flamberg, Mannheim 1914</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1158348" target="_blank">Nikitin - Zeschkovsky, Alma - Alta 1968</a> (!); <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1007816" target="_blank">Spielmann - Marshall, New York 1927</a>; Ivaschin - Boriseenko, Kuilyschev 1948; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1100103" target="_blank">Spielmann - Romanovsky, Moscow 1925</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1794380" target="_blank">Boros - Lilienthal, Budapest 1933</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1228641" target="_blank">Hromadka - Lasker, Mahrisch - Ostran 1923</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1130864" target="_blank">Hromadka - Spielmann, Trentscher - Teplitz 1926</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1006926" target="_blank">Hromadka - Johner, Pistyan 1922</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1030738" target="_blank">Hromadka - Bogolyubov, Mahrisch - Ostram 1923</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1156596" target="_blank">Horseman - Gligoric, Hastings 1956/1957</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1028960" target="_blank">Steinitz - Blackburne, Match 1876</a>; and Baretic - Nikolic, Hastings 1961 among others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/500-Master-Games-Chess-Dover/dp/0486232085" target="_blank">500 Master Games of Chess</a></i> by S. Tartakower and J. Du Mont (1952). Gives the games <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1228691" target="_blank">Hromadka - Schreiber, Munich 1936</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1003821" target="_blank">Spielmann - Maroczy, Teplitz - Schonau 1922</a>; and <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1031875" target="_blank">Kan - Botvinnik, Moscow 1935</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Wienerisch," <i>Die Hypermoderne Schachpartie </i>by S. G. Tartakower, Wiener Schachzeitung (1924): 208-212. Gives the game <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1003821" target="_blank">Spielmann - Maroczy, Teplitz - Schonau 1922</a>.</span><br />
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<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=u3AZAAAAYAAJ&dq=Curt%20von%20Bardeleben%20Die%20Wiener%20Partie%201893&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Die Wiener Partie</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> by Curt von Bardeleben (1893). Available at Google Books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have not updated my <a href="http://www.kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2006/08/grand-prix-attack-bibliography-updated.html" target="_blank">Grand Prix Attack Bibliography</a> since 2006, and a large number of excellent new books and videos have come out on this popular "anti-Sicilian" line, which might begin 1.e4 c5 2.f4 (B21) or 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 (B23). I have tried my best to put together a complete list of resources, but I know that several items have escaped me and so I will continue to update this list over the coming week. As always, I welcome additions and suggestions from readers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/trent_the_modern_grand_prix_attack" target="_blank">The Modern Grand Prix Attack</a> by Lawrence Trent, ChessBase DVD (2014).<br />Follows the games of GM Gawain Jones to present an aggressive but modern Grand Prix system. I own this item but have not had a chance to review it closely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.onlinechesslessons.net/shop/nuke-the-sicillian-lm-dana-mackenzie/#.U1xCyfldWIk" target="_blank">Nuke the Sicilian</a> by Dana Mackenzie, ChessLecture.com DVD (2013)<br />A series of lectures on the Bryntse Gambit line 1.e4 c5 2.f4 d5 3.Nf3 dxe4 4.Ng5 Nf6 5.Bc4 Bg4, when White sacrifices the Queen for two pieces with 6.Bxf7+ Kd7 7.Qxg4+ Nxg4 8.Be6+ etc. Includes a bonus lecture by GM Jesse Kraai. All lectures first appeared at ChessLecture.com and are available there for those with a subscription. This was the first DVD produced by ChessLecture.com because of the popularity of LM Mackenzie's very interesting presentation on the concepts that he developed (after many games vs the computer) that helped him win in <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1648780" target="_blank">Mackenzie - Pruess, Western States Open 2006</a>. Also available at <a href="http://www.houseofstaunton.com/nuke-the-sicillian-chess-lecture.html" target="_blank">House of Staunton</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"A Venomous Sicilian According to Saidali Yuldashev" by Rustam Khusnutdinov, <i>New in Chess Yearbook</i> #108 (2013): 63-68. This article explores the line 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Bb5 g6 4.Bxc6, which is related (and often transposes) to the Grand Prix with Bb5. This approach is also discussed by Bryan Smith (2013), Matthieu Cornette (2011), </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gawain Jones (2008), and Paul Motwani (1998), the latter of whom recommends meeting 3...Nd4 with 4.Nf3!? Sample games include Gubaydulin - Golubev, Uzbekistan 2008; </span><a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=658226" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Tiviakov - Arlandi, Mondariz 2000</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; Yuldashev - Nguyen Ahn Dung, Dhaka 1997; Yuldashev - Fier, Turin 2006; </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1555758" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Tiviakov - Maze, Montreal 2009</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1311214" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Kasimdzhanov - Afek, Vlissingen 2003</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; </span><a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/3351852" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Petrosian - Ferrufino, Istanbul 2012</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; Hou - Wan, China 2012; </span><a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1233069" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Tiviakov - Van der Wiel, Leeuwarden 2004</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; </span><a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/3351843" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Bartel - Koch, Eilat 2012</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; </span><a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1233008" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Macieja - Haznedaroglu, Antalya 2004</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=3683718" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Cornette - Cochet, France 2009</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; and </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1475383" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Jones - Abhishek, Erevan 2007</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Beating the Sicilian with the Tiviakov Grand Prix, Part 4" by Bryan Smith, <a href="http://chesslecture.com/">ChessLecture.com</a> (May. 28, 2013). A 40:34<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>online video discussing Tiviakov's 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Bb5. Membership required.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Beating the Sicilian with the Tiviakov Grand Prix, Part 3" by Bryan Smith, <a href="http://chesslecture.com/">ChessLecture.com</a> (May. 21, 2013). A 29:21 online video discussing Tiviakov's 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Bb5. Membership required.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Beating the Sicilian with the Tiviakov Grand Prix, Part 2" by Bryan Smith, <a href="http://chesslecture.com/">ChessLecture.com</a> (May 14, 2013). A 37:21 online video discussing Tiviakov's 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Bb5. Membership required.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Beating the Sicilian with the Tiviakov Grand Prix, Part 1" by Bryan Smith, <a href="http://chesslecture.com/">ChessLecture.com</a> (May. 7, 2013). A 29:08 online video introducing the Tiviakov System with 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Bb5, which will often transpose to the Grand Prix Attack but can also present other attacking ideas. Membership required.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Grand-Prix-Attack-Attacking/dp/9056914170" target="_blank">The Grand Prix Attack</a> by Evgeny Sveshnikov, New in Chess (2013). <a href="http://www.newinchess.com/Shop/Images/Pdfs/979.pdf" target="_blank">Table of contents and excerpt online</a>. This is one of those "must-have" books for any serious student of the Grand Prix, but it will be sure to disappoint the majority of Grand Prix players because of how little attention it devotes to the popular 2.Nc3 lines (covered in Chapter 5, on pages 151-188, with only brief mention elsewhere). Sveshnikov's goal, though, is to discuss the lines following 1.e4 c5 2.f4 (B21) from the perspective of both White and Black, focusing only on GM-quality ideas (so off-beat lines like the Bryntse are not even mentioned -- though, honestly, most people would consider any game starting 1.e4 c5 2.f4 slightly "off-beat" today). Sveshnikov's prejudices are clearly on display, with statements against the <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2009/french-f4.htm" target="_blank">McDonnell French</a> (to which he gives a "?!" in the historical introduction -- though he later suggests that 1.e4 c5 2.f4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.e5 "is quite an ambitious continuation" [108]) and the popular line 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bb5 Nd4, where he says 6.a4 is "the only way to fight for the advantage" [51]. I was also disappointed that, in the "short historical introduction," the editors presented a picture of George Alcock MacDonnell as that of Alexander McDonnell (of whom a picture has never been found, according to Edward Winter). But, those issues aside, there is a lot here to like and learn from. Most of my readers will likely be most interested in those few games with Nc3, which include: <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1014863" target="_blank">Adams - Anand, Groningen 1997</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1263079" target="_blank">Lazarevic - Volpert, Leningrad 1964</a>; <a href="http://chess-db.com/public/game.jsp?id=100013.4100115.55817984" target="_blank">Campora - Khalifman, New York 1998</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1739380" target="_blank">Hodgson - Speelman, Brighton 1980</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1743126" target="_blank">Hebden - DeFirmian, London 1986</a>; <a href="http://chess-db.com/public/game.jsp?id=9010492417.2400758.56469760" target="_blank">Hebden - Umesh, Glasgow 1995</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1018733" target="_blank">Anand - Gelfand, Wijk aan Zee 1996</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1143872" target="_blank">Topalov - Van Wely, Wijk aan Zee 1996</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1048109" target="_blank">Short - Gelfand, Brussels 1991</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1017968" target="_blank">Anand - Sveshnikov, Moscow 1987</a>; and <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1221200" target="_blank">Sale - Sveshnikov, Dubai 2001</a> (notice that many are by transposition from 2.f4). For those interested in learning more about the fascinating 1.e4 c5 2.f4 lines: buy the book!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.onlinechesslessons.net/shop/winning-with-the-grand-prix-attack-bb5-system/" target="_blank">Winning with the Grand Prix Attack Bb5 System</a> by Eugene Perelshteyn, <a href="http://onlinechesslessons.net/">OnlineChessLessons.net</a> (2013). </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">GM Perelshteyn does an excellent job of presenting the repertoire he developed with GM Dzindzichashvili, which was documented in</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Chess Openings for White, Explained</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, in this nicely produced 2-hour video Though most of the material here was covered in the book or has been discussed by Dzindzi on video, I still found it useful to have GM Perelshteyn's commentary on <a href="http://www.365chess.com/search_result.php?wlname=perelshteyn&wname=&open=&blname=&bname=&eco=b23&yeari=&yeare=&sply=1&ply=&res=&submit_search=1" target="_blank">his own games with these lines</a>, including </span><a href="http://chess-db.com/public/game.jsp?id=2012529.2009064.56602112" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Perelshteyn - Shahade, US Junior 1998</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=1357452" target="_blank">Perelshteyn - Ibrahimov, Menorca 1996</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"King Hunt in the Grand Prix Attack" by Eugene Perelshteyn, <a href="http://chesslecture.com/">ChessLecture.com</a> (Apr. 10, 2013). </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Features the game <a href="http://chess-db.com/public/game.jsp?id=2012529.2009064.56602112" target="_blank">Eugene Perelshteyn vs. Gregory Shahade</a> in the Grand Prix Attack (B23). Membership required.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<a href="http://shop.chesscafe.com/Opening-Lanes-171-Ebook-LANE171.htm" target="_blank">Maybe Tomorrow - Opening Lanes #171</a>" by Gary Lane, ChessCafe (March 2013)<br />A 99-cent download of Gary Lane's column, partly devoted to Bb5 in the Grand Prix.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<a href="http://en.chessbase.com/post/andrew-martin-refuting-the-grand-prix-attack" target="_blank">Refuting the Grand Prix Attack</a>" by Andrew Martin, ChessBase (November 2012)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">IM Martin offers several games that illustrate the dangers of White's Bc4 and f5 attack in the Grand Prix before introducing his video (see below) where he offers the antidote 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 d6 3.f4 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bc4 Nc6 6.O-O e6 7.f5 exf5 8.d3 Nge7 9.Qe1 h6!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"</span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120329113422/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kibitz190.pdf" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">When Two Pieces Beat a Queen</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">" by Tim Harding, Kibitzer #190 at ChessCafe (March 2012)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> IM Tim Harding presents a tour de force treatment of the Bryntse Gambit (1.e4 c5 2.f4 d5 3.Nf3!? dxe4 4.Ng5), focusing on the Queen-sac line made famous by Dana Mackenzie which arises after 4...Nf6 5.Bc4 Bg4 6.Qxg4! Nxg4 7.Bxf7+ Kd7 8.Be6+ Kc6 9.Bxg4. At the end of the article I get a nice mention for my article on the <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2011/bryntse-faj.htm" target="_blank">Bryntse-Faj</a>, which features 4.Ne5!? instead of 4.Ng5. Too bad they messed up <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2011/bryntse-faj.htm" target="_blank">the link</a>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120417072822/http://www.chesscafe.com:80/text/lane158.pdf" target="_blank">A Game of Shadows - Opening Lanes #158</a>" by Gary Lane at ChessCafe (February 2012). </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Examines the game </span><a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2463920" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Gawain Jones – Artur Zarkaj, European Cup, Kallithea 2008</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> in the Grand Prix with Bc4. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Declining Freddie? How about Eddie?" by Junior Tay, <a href="http://www.newinchess.com/Archives/SurveysList.aspx?&YearbookID=99" target="_blank"><i>New in Chess Yearbook</i> #103</a> (2012): 98-103. An article on the line 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 d6 3.f4 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bc4 Nc6 6.d3 Nf6 7.O-O O-O 8.Qe1 e6 9.f5!? which is playable due to the idea of 9...d5 10.e5!? Tay presents his own analysis and sample games, which include Tay - Tan, Singapore 2012; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=121954" target="_blank">Milliet - l'Ami, Plovdiv 2003</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1450892" target="_blank">Sabirova - Zhao, Doha 2006</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1272991" target="_blank">Nepomniachtchi - Van Haastert, Wijk aan Zee 2007</a>; and Tay - Bacherier, Internet 2012. <a href="http://www.newinchess.com/Yearbook/GameFiles/yb103_pgn.zip" target="_blank">Download PGN</a> online.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.onlinechesslessons.net/shop/the-killer-grand-prix-with-gm-gawain-jones/" target="_blank">Killer Grand Prix</a> by Gawain Jones, ChessCube (2011)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">An excellent 5 hour and 30 minute presentation by Gawain Jones that does a great job of setting forth an attacking repertoire for White in the Grand Prix, based loosely on his "Starting Out" book. Features the games <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2463920" target="_blank">Jones - Zarkaj, European Cup 2008</a>; Jones - Wall, 2010; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2951305" target="_blank">Jones - Bates, England 2010</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2899075" target="_blank">Jones - Van der Nat, Cape Town 2009</a> (copare <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1014863" target="_blank">Adams - Anand</a>); <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2609772" target="_blank">Jones - Garner, Australia 2010</a>; </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1604125" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Jones - Rublevsky, European Blitz 2010</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=3687743" target="_blank">Jones - Satyapragyan, Syndney 2009</a>; </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1490997" target="_blank">Jones - Orlov, European Ch 2008</a>; </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1476915" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Jones - Ashwin, World Junior Yerevan 2007</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=3072992" target="_blank">Jones - Abhishek, Jones - Nijboer, Groningen 2004</a>; Jones - Carlin, London League 2010; and <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1560824" target="_blank">McShane - Cheparinov, European Team 2009</a>, among others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2011/bryntse-faj.htm" target="_blank">The Other Bryntse Gambit</a> by Michael Goeller, Kenilworth Chess Club (December 2011)<br />An original article on the "Bryntse-Faj": </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1.e4 c5 2.f4 d5! 3.Nf3 dxe4 4.Ne5!? </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I unearthed 25 game scores (most previously unknown) and contributed some analysis. Fellow chess blogger </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dana Mackenzie generously contributed notes on his three games with the line (played before he switched to "Nuking" the Sicilian with 4.Ng5). See also the related blog post on "<a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2011/12/bryntse-faj-gambit.html" target="_blank">The Bryntse-Faj Gambit</a>."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.chesshouse.com/Roman_s_Lab_102_p/rl102.htm" target="_blank">Roman's Lab #102: Killing the Sicilian with the Grand Prix Attack!!</a> by Roman Dzindzichashvili, ChessDVDs.com (2011). A 2 hour and 30 minute DVD that discusses many of GM Roman Dzindzichashvili's recent and unpublished ICC blitz games vs. strong opposition. I really like this video because it presents some original games that demonstrate interesting ideas (such as the attack on Black's d-pawn after a Knight exchange at d4) which have wide application in the Grand Prix.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Pulling Ahead in the Grand Prix" by Dennis Monokroussos, <a href="http://chesslecture.com/">ChessLecture.com</a> (Oct. 6, 2011). </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A 31:23 video discussing <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1633838" target="_blank">Polgar - Dominguez Perez</a> in the Grand Prix Attack (B23). Membership required.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Avoiding the Najdorf Variation" by Sergey Tiviakov<i>, <a href="http://www.newinchess.com/Yearbook_99_hardcover-p-4015.html" target="_blank">New in Chess Yearbook</a></i><a href="http://www.newinchess.com/Yearbook_99_hardcover-p-4015.html" target="_blank"> #99</a> (2011): 50-59. <a href="http://www.newinchess.com/Yearbook/GameFiles/yb99_pgn.zip" target="_blank">Download PGN</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Facing an Aggressive Line" by Zaven Andriasian, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.newinchess.com/Yearbook_99_hardcover-p-4015.html" target="_blank">New in Chess Yearbook</a></i><a href="http://www.newinchess.com/Yearbook_99_hardcover-p-4015.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank"> #99</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (2011): 55-59. </span><a href="http://www.newinchess.com/Yearbook/GameFiles/yb99_pgn.zip" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Download PGN</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. Sample games include Popov - Andriasian, Kirishi 2007; Sabirov - Vovk, Tashkent 2008; Jones - Zarkaj, Kallithea 2008; Parligras - Horvat, Cluj 2008; Conquest - Villavicencio, La Laguna 2008; Gdanski - Sammalvuo, Myyrmanni 1999; Khalifman - Savon, Moscow 1992; Kulaots - Wunnink, Tallinn 2000; Short - Oll, Tallinn 1998; and Zilberman - Iosif, Bucharest 1997.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Tiviakov Grand Prix" by Matthieu Cornette, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Experts-Anti-Sicilian-Jacob-Aagaard/dp/1906552800" target="_blank">Experts on the Anti-Sicilian</a></i> edited by Jacob Aagard and John Shaw, Quality Chess (2011): 317-389.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lubomir-kavalek/aronian-wins-the-last-amb_b_840917.html" target="_blank">Aronian Wins the Last Amber</a>" by Lubomir Kavalek, <i>Huffington Post </i>(March 2011)<br />Analyzes the game <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1610275" target="_blank">Carlsen - Topalov, Monaco Amber 2011</a>. Also <a href="http://en.chessbase.com/post/kavalek-in-huffington-carlsen-and-the-grand-prix-attack" target="_blank">available at ChessBase</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2011/02/big-clamp.html" target="_blank">The Big Clamp</a>" by Michael Goeller, Kenilworth Chess Club (2011). Includes a link to a <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1020360" target="_blank">game collection at Chessgames.com</a>. Documents IM Lawrence Day's "big clamp" theme, with some discussion of how this line relates to the Grand Prix.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Chess-Openings-White-Explained-Winning/dp/1889323209" target="_blank">Chess Openings for White, Explained: Winning with 1.e4</a></i>, 2nd Revised and Fully Updated Edition, by Lev Alburt, Roman Dzindzichashvili, and Eugene Perelshteyn, Chess Information and Research Center (2010): 209-245. This section does not seem significantly revised from the first edition, which I <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2006/08/grand-prix-attack-explained.html" target="_blank">reviewed</a> online with <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2006/gpa-explained.htm" target="_blank">analysis of the Grand Prix</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2010/pullin-villarreal.htm" target="_blank">The Grand Prix with Na3!?</a>" by Michael Goeller, The Kenilworthian (2010).<br />Analyzes the interesting amateur game Pullin - Villarreal, 1st North American Amateur Closed, Skokie, IL USA 2010, where White played a "Big Clamp"- or Zvjagintsev</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-inspired Na3 in the Grand Prix with 2.f4.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2010/03/left-hook-grand-prix-videos.html" target="_blank">Left Hook Grand Prix Videos</a>" by Michael Goeller, The Kenilworthian (2010).<br />This was the last post I made on the Left Hook Grand Prix, which usually arises via the move order </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.a3!? White waits for Black to commit himself to either 5...e6 (which can be met with the "left hook" 6.b4!?) or 5...d6 (which can be met with 6.Bc4 -- when the Bishop has a nice retreat square later). In this post, I discuss two excellent videos by Matt Pullin about the line and give links to all of my previous posts on this line as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<a href="http://www.chess.com/video/player/concepts-in-the-grand-prix-attack-2" target="_blank">Concepts in the Grand Prix Attack 2</a>" by GM Melikset Khachiyan, Chess.com (Dec. 30, 2009)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<a href="http://www.chess.com/video/player/concepts-in-the-grand-prix-attack-1" target="_blank">Concepts in the Grand Prix Attack 1</a>" by GM Melikset Khachiyan, Chess.com (Dec. 26, 2009). Two lectures on the Grand Prix attack for amateur players. Membership required.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.verlag-chesscoach.de/?wpsc-product=auf-sieg-spielen-gegen-sizilianisch-reinhold-ripperger-2009" target="_blank">Auf Sieg spielen gegen Sizilianisch</a>. Reinhold Ripperger, Verlag Chess Coach (2009). <a href="http://www.verlag-chesscoach.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/leseprobe_sizilianisch.pdf" target="_blank">Download PDF sample</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"My Best Games from SPICE III; Part II; My Miniature in the Grand Prix Bb5" by Eugene Perelshteyn, <a href="http://chesslecture.com/">ChessLecture.com</a> (Oct. 7, 2009). </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A 16:03 video discussing the game Eugene Perelshteyn vs. Andre Diamant (2009) in the Grand Prix Attack (B23). Membership required.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/the_f4_sicilian" target="_blank">The f4 Sicilian</a> by GM Nigel Davies, ChessBase (2009) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Running Time: 4 hrs. Less a repertoire DVD than an interesting overview of the Grand Prix, practically in historical perspective, beginning with 1.e4 c5 2.f4 and ending with 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 lines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"The Expanded Grand Prix Attack - Part II" by Efstratios Grivas, <i><a href="http://www.newinchess.com/Archives/SurveysList.aspx?&YearbookID=79" target="_blank">New in Chess Yearbook #92</a></i> (2009): 67- 70. Discusses the "Vinken Attack" line with 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 g6 4.Bb5 Bg7. Sample games include Melero Fidalgo - Khamrakulov, Navalmoral 2007 and Wippermann - Mamedov, Izmir 2006 (both very deeply commented). <a href="http://www.newinchess.com/Yearbook/GameFiles/yb92_pgn.zip" target="_blank">Games in PGN</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"The Expanded Grand Prix Attack - Part I" by Efstratios Grivas, <a href="http://www.newinchess.com/Archives/SurveysList.aspx?&YearbookID=78" target="_blank"><i>New in Chess Yearbook</i> #91 </a>(2009): 72 - 79. Discusses the Bc4 attack line 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 d6 4.Nf3 g6 5.Bc4 Bg7 6.O-O e6 7.d3 Nge7 8.Qe1 from the Black perspective. Main sample games (all deeply annotated) include Lilov - Baramidze, Plovdiv 2008; Polgar - Gelfand, Pamplona 1999-2000; and Hellers - Gelfand, Novi Sad ol 1990. <a href="http://www.newinchess.com/Yearbook/GameFiles/yb91_pgn.zip" target="_blank">Games in PGN</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Starting-Out-Sicilian-Grand-Attack/dp/1857445473" target="_blank"><i>Starting Out: Grand Prix Attack</i></a> by Gawain Jones, Everyman Chess (2008). This is a very good book full of interesting ideas and inspiring games. Main games include <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1475383" target="_blank">Jones - Abhishek, World Junior Yerevan 2007</a>; Macieja - Alvarez, Bermuda 2001; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1048081" target="_blank">Hellers - Gelfand, Novi Sad Olympiad 1990</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1400752" target="_blank">Rogers - Johansson, Reykjavik 2006</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=1961846" target="_blank">Lazic - Ninov, Novi Sad 1992</a>; Meister - Manic, Pardubice 1995; Alexa Ivanov - Abeln, Dutch Open Ch 1992; Paschall - Bakre, Budapest 2001; Giorgadze - Corral Blanco, Spanish Team Ch 2003; Benjamin - Smith, Philadelphia World Open 2006; Minasian - Petrosian, Yerevan 2004; Macieja - Wells, European Championship Warsaw 2005; Jones - Agopov, European Team Ch Crete 2007; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1478750" target="_blank">Jones - Gelashvili, European Team Ch Crete 2007</a>; Adams - Anand, Groningen 1997; Jones - Van Wely; Polgar - Topalov, Dortmund 1996; London 2007; Short - Oll, Tallinn 1998; Chandler - Schenk, British League 2006; Anand - Gelfand, Wijk aan Zee 1996; Mitkov - Alvarez, Istanbul ol 2000; Iuldachev - El Arousy, Abu Dhabi 2003; Ekebjaerg - Lundholm, Correspondence 1989; Lutton - Dougherty, Isle of Man 2002; Jones - Arakhamia, British League 2006; Tiviakov - Kurnosov, Istanbul 2003; Giorgadze - Kouatly, Manila ol 1992; Harikrishna - Bu Xiangzhi, Tiayuan 2005; Lobron - Andruet, Marseilles 1989; Najer - Kron, Moscow 1998; Kosten - Arakhamia, Aosta 1990; Hernandez - Minzer, Mislata 2000; Jones - Stojanovski, Pula 2007; Jones - Eppinger, Calvia 2006; Macieja - Haznedaroglu, Antalya 2004; Jones - Horvath, Fuegen 2006; Jones - Sarkar, Gibraltar 2007; Jones - Nijboer, Groningen 2004; Jones - Devereaux, Swansea 2006; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1070369" target="_blank">Spassky - Kasparov, Reykjavik 1988</a>; and Svidler - Leko, Dortmund 2004.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Art-Bisguier-Selected-Games-1961-2003/dp/1888690364" target="_blank">The Art of Bisguier: Selected Games 1961-2003</a> by Arthur B. Bisguier & Newton Berry, Russell Enterprises, Inc. (2008). Features several games with Bisguier's signature 1.e4 c5 2.f4 Grand Prix. He also used a Grand Prix system vs. the English.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2008/left-hook-gp-games.htm" target="_blank">Fun with the Left Hook Grand Prix</a>" by Michael Goeller, Kenilworth Chess Club (2008).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2008/gp-a3.htm" target="_blank">The Left Hook Grand Prix with a3</a>" by Michael Goeller, Kenilworth Chess Club (2008). This is my most complete analysis of the "Left Hook" Grand Prix with 5.a3.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"A Black Repertoire Against the Morra and the Grand Prix Attack" by Efstrafios Grivas, New in Chess Yearbook #88 (2008): 66-71. Focused on 1.e4 c5 2.f4 d5! as an equalizing line, as seen in <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1070497" target="_blank">Short - Kasparov, Paris 1990</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2006/gpa-explained.htm" target="_blank">Grand Prix Attack, Explained</a> by Michael Goeller, The Kenilworthian (2006). A close analysis of the game Benjamin - Smith, World Open 2006 and </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Iuldachev - El Arousy, Abu Dhabi 2003, while the associated blog post provided <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2006/08/grand-prix-attack-explained.html" target="_blank">a review of the book <i>The Openings for White, Explained</i></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.chesshouse.com/Roman_s_Forum_33_Mastering_The_Opening_Forum_Ser_p/v664.htm" target="_blank">Roman's Forum #33</a> by Roman Dzindzichashvivli, Chess DVDs (2006). Following the repertoire presented in his <i>Chess Openings for White, Explained</i>, in a very compact (60 minute) format. He does simplify the repertoire slightly by focusing on the line </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bb5 Nd4 6.Bd3 rather than the more complex 6.O-O! that was the focus of his and Perelshteyn's work.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The remaining two hours of the video mostly covers other lines from <i>Chess Openings for White, Explained</i>, including the Two Knights Defense and Giuoco Piano. Among the games discussed are </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1026444" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Benjamin - Geller, Lone Pine 1980</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1040303" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Dzindzichashvili - Huebner, Tilburg 1985</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; and <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1070542" target="_blank">Ljubojevic - Kasparov, Linares 1991</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Avoiding the Najdorf" (B23) by Viktor Gavrikov, ChessBase Magazine #116 (2006). Discusses the anti-Najdorf move order 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 d6 3.f4 when Black usually plays 3...g6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Qxd4 Nf6 6.e5 Nc6 7.Bb5 which presents challenges to Black. Sample games include <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1113829" target="_blank">Romanishin - Portisch, Tilburg 1979</a>; Christiansen - Ftacinik, Groningen 1991; Certic - Szuhanek, Belgrade 1995; Romanishin - Rashkovsky, Moscow 1976; Nakamura - Castellanos, Pan Am Ch U20 2002; Romanishin - Ftacnik, Biel 1988; Romanishin - Ilincic, Lvov-Belgrade 1993; Pogosian - Yagupov, RUS Cup 2003; Turov - Sakaev, Russia Internet Cup Final 2004; Nakamura - Karjakin, Cuernavaca 2004; Adams - Anand, FIDE KO 1997; and </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Heberla - Neelotpal, Marianske Lazne 2006. This article is available in the ChessBase Opening Encyclopedia.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are game collections at <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/opening/2097" target="_blank">ChessTempo</a>, <a href="http://www.365chess.com/eco/B23_Sicilian_Grand_Prix_attack" target="_blank">365 Chess</a>, and </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><a href="http://webmesteren.no/sjakk/grand-prix-attack/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Sjakk</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://webmesteren.no/sjakk/grand-prix-attack/" target="_blank">apninger</a>, as well as <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1027165" target="_blank">Grand Prix Attack</a> and <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1023142" target="_blank">B23 Sicilian</a> at Chessgames.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For sources before 2006, consult my earlier</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2006/08/grand-prix-attack-bibliography-updated.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Grand Prix Attack Bibliography</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></div>
Michael Goellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512012158305281566noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-45648138284301342832014-04-21T02:24:00.002-04:002014-04-23T14:47:38.565-04:00Review of Dejan Bojkov's "Modernized: The King's Indian Defense"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the most original King's Indian repertoire books to appear in print is GM Dejan Bojkov's </span><a href="http://metrochessla.com/now-released-modernized-the-kings-indian-defense/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Modernized: The King's Indian Defense</i></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> (Metropolitan Chess Publishing, 2014), which can be purchased</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> from </span><a href="http://www.uscfsales.com/modernized-the-kings-indian-defense.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">USCF Sales</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> or via <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Modernized-The-Kings-Indian-Defense/dp/0985628103" target="_blank">Amazon</a>.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was so taken by the repertoire that I decided to check out some of GM Bojkov's games with the lines he recommends, and I have written up </span><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/bojkov-kid.htm" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Dejan Bojkov Plays the Modernized KID</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> (</span><a href="https://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/kenilworth-pgn/bojkov-kid.pgn" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">PGN</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> / </span><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/bojkov-kid.htm" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Replay</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">) to give you an overview of his system. You can also find <a href="http://www.chess.com/article/view/exclusive-peek-at-modernized-the-kings-indian-defense-by-gm-dejan-bojkov-for-chesscom-members" target="_blank">a "sneak peek" at Chess.com</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Most repertoire books </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">lead KID players toward a closed center to play for an attack on the kingside, as in the </span><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2010/09/mar-del-plata-kings-indian-e97.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Mar del Plata Variation</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, which is most amateurs' idea of the King's Indian. But many different ways of playing the King's Indian have emerged over the years. In my own quest to bring the KID back into my repertoire, I have been exploring a wide range of flexible systems, so I guess I have been very well prepared psychologically -- sufficiently "modernized" you might say -- to understand and appreciate a repertoire that</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> focuses exclusively on fighting for the center, always seeking to blast open lines with pawn advances or sharp sacrifices there. And while some of the lines where Black breaks in the center can result in potentially lifeless equality, they are clearly quite principled.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The </span><a href="http://origin.library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1104155438743-16/KIDSample_MetroDejan.pdf" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Table of Contents and a Samp</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://origin.library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1104155438743-16/KIDSample_MetroDejan.pdf">le</a> can be viewed online, and each chapter deserves some discussion:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The introduction might have been a good place to explain why Bojkov eschews more familiar KID territory for the "modernized" approach. Instead, he gives what reads like a personal argument for the beauties of the King's Indian, commenting on the brilliant games </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1147535" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Skembris - Van Wely, Skei 1993</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">; </span><a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1197815" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Naumkin - Smirin, Ischia 1995</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1066688" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Kamsky - Kasparov, Manila ol 1992</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1084369" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Kotov - Gligoric, Zurich 1953</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1434746" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Avery - Gligoric, USA 1971</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">; </span><a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/200358" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Miroshnichenko - Bojkov, Plovdiv 2008</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1070485" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Piket - Kasparov, Tilburg 1989</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">; and </span><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1070732" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Kramnik - Kasparov, Munich blitz 1994</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. While some of the lines and ideas in those games are reflected to some extent in the system that follows, fewer than half are directly relevant to the repertoire. So this chapter, while interesting in its own right for anyone who loves the KID, feels to me like a missed opportunity to present Bojkov's brilliantly original concept of the book as a whole.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> A </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">more focused introduction, in my view, might have pointed to the fight for the center theme and perhaps analyzed two great games of Kramnik's: <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1628308" target="_blank">Kramnik - Ponomariov, Dortmund 2011</a> (annotated by <a href="http://www.jan-gustafsson.de/partieanalysen/partieanalyse/match/53/" target="_blank">Gustafsson</a>!) and <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1671758" target="_blank">Gustafsson - Kramnik, Dresden 2012</a> (one of the very few times Kramnik played the Black side of the KID, and annotated at <a href="http://en.chessbase.com/post/dortmund-2012-kramnik-shocks-gustafon-with-a-kid-as-black-" target="_blank">ChessBase</a> and by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-S1cWTtfE4" target="_blank">Claus Jensen</a> on YouTube); both games nicely illustrate the way the center-focused approach can be used against White's Classical set-up. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>1. The Classical Variation: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Be2 e5 (pp. 15-120)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The focus on blasting open the center is most clear in Bojkov's approach to the important Classical Variation, where he shows Black surrendering the center with ...exd4 with the plan later to blast through with ...c6 and an eventual ...d5.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The Classical Variation makes up the core of the book and comprises about a third of its pages. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Main sample games include <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1606745" target="_blank">Fier - Bologan, Aeroflot Open Moscow 2011</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2866501" target="_blank">Eljanov - Bologan, Croation Team Championship Sibenik 2010</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1628308" target="_blank">Kramnik - Ponomariov, Dortmund 2011</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/3134783" target="_blank">Shankland - Vorobiov, Dresden 2011</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/3068570" target="_blank">Popov - Giri, Olginka 2011</a>; and <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1641482" target="_blank">Onischuk - Bacrot, Poikovsky 2011</a> among many others. I think the book is worth having for this section alone, which will repay close study by players of either Black or White.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2. The Sämisch Variation - </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 O-O 6.Be3 c5 (pp. 121-188)</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Bojkov offers excellent coverage of this standard gambit line, which is widely recommended and very likely responsible for sending the Sämisch into retreat at the GM level. However, other than its invitation to play a wide-open position with the center blasted to bits, it does not seem thematically related to the rest of the repertoire. What's more, White has several ways to respond (grabbing the pawn with 7.dxc5, maintaining the center with 7.Nge2, or closing the center with 7.d5), each of which leads to completely different types of positions. I think a better fit for the repertoire and a more original approach to the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sämisch</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> would have been <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/03/samisch-kings-indian-byrne-system-e80.html" target="_blank">the Byrne System</a> with ...c6, ...a6, and ...b5, where Black often is able to clear the way for a later ...d5 advance. But this is my personal prejudice. Those who like the ...c5-gambit approach to the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sämisch will find this chapter valuable.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3. The Four Pawns Attack - </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f4 O-O 6.Nf3 e5!? (pp. 189-212)</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Though I was persuaded by Bojkov's ChessBase DVD "<a href="http://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/bojkov_modern_way_to_play_the_kings_indian" target="_blank">A Modern Way to Play the King's Indian</a>" to play 6...Na6 against the dangerous Four Pawns, I mostly liked the lines (such as 6...Na6 7.Be2 e5!) where Black goes for a quick pawn break, immediately challenging White's giant center. So it makes sense to look again at the gambit 6...e5!? This line was discussed in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Weapons-Indian-Opponents-Everyman/dp/1857445937" target="_blank">Dangerous Weapons: The King's Indian</a>, where the illustrative game <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1489885" target="_blank">Mamedyarov - Svidler, Baku 2008</a> shows how play might tend toward a draw between very well-prepared opponents -- but a less prepared opponent would definitely be in some danger. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Main sample games here include <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/3177260" target="_blank">Jobava - Jianu, Brasov 2011</a> and <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/3097797" target="_blank">Bromberger - Nyzhnyk, Bahia Feliz 2011</a>, both very deeply annotated. This is another excellent chapter.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4. The Averbakh System - </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 O-O 6.Bg5 Na6 (pp. 213-236)</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here Bojkov returns to his <i>other</i> "modern" approach with ...Na6, presenting games where Black plays ...c6 and then often brings the Na6 to c7 and then e6 to harrass the Bg5. In several games, Black also plays a ...d5 break as well, as in <a href="http://chess-db.com/public/game.jsp?id=1200437.24193097.174235392" target="_blank">Dumitrache - Golubev, Bucharest 1996</a>. An interesting approach.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">5. The Bagirov Line - </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.h3 Na6!? (pp. 237-272)</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Again, the early Na6 returns, to be followed by an ...e5 break.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">6. The Fianchetto System - </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.Nf3 O-O 5.g3 d6 6.Bg2 c6 7.O-O Qa5 (pp. 273-306)</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bojkov recommends <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-kavalek-system-vs-kings-indian.html" target="_blank">the Kavalek System</a>, which I discussed in a <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-kavalek-system-vs-kings-indian.html" target="_blank">previous post</a>. Main games are </span><a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2995841" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Laznicka - Vachier-Lagrave, Sestao 2010</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and </span><a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2950468" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Harikrishna - Radjabov, Khanty-Mansiysk 2010</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. Rather than playing the main lines (covered in my <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-kavalek-system-vs-kings-indian.html" target="_blank">bibliography</a>), Bojkov chooses a different idea with 8...e5 to be followed by ...exd4, ...Nbd7-e5, and possibly an early ....d5 push, which resembles his approach against the Classical.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Solutions to the Exercises (307-354)</b><br />When Al Lawrence designed Alburt and Chernin's excellent <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pirc-Alert-Complete-Defense-Against/dp/1889323195" target="_blank">Pirc Alert! </a>book, he set the standard for effective opening training manuals. <i>Modernized </i>is the first I have seen, besides Lawrence's other work for Alburt and company, to adopt some of those innovations -- especially lots of diagrams, including "memory markers" and tactical exercises at the end of each chapter to assist with training. I especially appreciate the great tactical exercises, which are important for a repertoire build around tactical and positional themes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Overall, this is a very exciting book. And while I might wish it had a more inspired introduction, maybe a better cover (why lettering in all caps and dark against a dark background? and what is the cover image supposed to represent?), and one or two different sub-variations in the repertoire, I think it is a very sturdy and well-analyzed opening book -- one that would be useful for players at all levels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Here are some exercises from Bojkov's own games. Solutions can be found at <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/bojkov-kid.htm" target="_blank">Dejan Bojkov Plays the Modernized KID</a>.</span><br />
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Black to play and completely equalize.</td></tr>
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Black to play and gain a clear advantage.</td></tr>
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Black to play and equalize or draw.</td></tr>
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Michael Goellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512012158305281566noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-37958126413522345802014-04-14T01:26:00.001-04:002014-04-19T06:50:49.903-04:00The Kavalek System vs the King's Indian Fianchetto Variation (E62)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Kavalek System against the King's Indian Fianchetto Variation (E62) begins 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.Nf3 d6 5.g3 O-O 6.Bg2 c6 7.O-O Qa5. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Developed in the 1960s by the Czech-born American GM Lubomir Kavalek, the line offers a very flexible response to the positionally challenging white Fianchetto. Black begins with 6...c6, blocking the fianchettoed Bishop's diagonal and opening a line for the queen to go to the active square a5, from whence it might start an attack on the queenside pawns with Qb4, support an ...e5 break, or even threaten to swing over to the kingside with Qh5 (where it can support Bh3 and possibly an attack with Ng4 as well -- which can be quite effective against unprepared opponents).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As I was assembling this bibliography, GM Eugene Perelshteyn began a series of videos on the line at <a href="http://chess.com/">Chess.com</a> which should continue in the coming weeks and will make an excellent introduction to the line for those with a <a href="http://www.chess.com/membership">Chess.com membership</a>. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I also recommend playing through some games with the line at </span><a href="http://www.365chess.com/eco/E62_King%27s_Indian_fianchetto_Kavalek_%28Bronstein%29_variation" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">365Chess</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, </span><a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/opening/1159" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">ChessTempo</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, <a href="http://chess-db.com/public/opening.jsp?name=Kavalek%20Defense,%20KID&code=E62&id=2645">Chess-DB</a>, and </span><a href="http://www.chess.com/opening/eco/E62_Kings_Indian_Defense_Fianchetto_Variation_Kavalek__Defense" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Chess.com</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have been inspired by GM Perelshteyn's recommendations in the King's Indian, which follow much of Dzindzichashvili's repertoire and focus on classic but lesser-known variations that tend to offer Black lots of options and ideas. Other articles in my expanding King's Indian repertoire for Black include <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/03/samisch-kings-indian-byrne-system-e80.html">the Byrne Variation vs. the Saemisch</a>, <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/02/classical-kings-indian-with-6na6.html">the Classical King's Indian with 6...Na6</a>, and <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2009/04/gleks-old-main-line-kings-indian-with.html">the Old Main Line King's Indian with 7...exd4</a>. A future article will cover meeting the Four Pawns Attack with Na6.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.chess.com/video/player/the-kings-indian-defense-beating-the-fianchetto-system---part-2" target="_blank">The King's Indian Defense: Beating the Fianchetto System - Part 2</a> by Eugene Perelshteyn, Chess.com (April 18, 2014)<br />A 17-minute online video that features a Shabalov - Perelshteyn game with the Kavalek.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.chess.com/video/player/the-kings-indian-defense-beating-the-fianchetto-systempart-1">The King's Indian Defense: Beating the Fianchetto System, Part 1</a> by Eugene Perelshteyn, <a href="http://chess.com/">Chess.com</a> (April 8, 2014)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A 22-minute online video on an early ...c6 against the Fianchetto System, featuring the game <a href="https://www.uschess.org/assets/games/gameview2.php?gameID=2934" target="_blank">Uesugi-Perelshteyn, Virginia Open 2009</a>. Members only.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://metrochessla.com/now-released-modernized-the-kings-indian-defense/"><i>Modernized: The King's Indian Defense</i></a> by Dejan Bojkov, Metropolitan Chess Publishing (2014): 273-306. I was alerted to this additional resource by a reader and ordered it from <a href="http://www.uscfsales.com/modernized-the-kings-indian-defense.html">USCF Sales</a>. I like Bojkov's past work a lot (on the KID with Na6 and the Pirc), and the <a href="http://origin.library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1104155438743-16/KIDSample_MetroDejan.pdf">Table of Contents and Sample</a> was very promising. The book itself did not disappoint. I love the repertoire, which typically involves an early Black ...c6 advance, including in the Classical with 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.O-O exd4 8.Nxd4 Re8 9.f3 c6, which is a fascinating line. The coverage of the Fianchetto System focuses on the Kavalek, but typically with an early ...e5 advance and ...exd4 exchange, making it resemble Bojkov's Classical line too, as seen in <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2995841" target="_blank">Laznicka - Vachier-Lagrave, Sestao 2010</a> and <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2950468" target="_blank">Harikrishna - Radjabov, Khanty-Mansiysk 2010</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wojos-Weapons-Winning-White-Vol/dp/1936277239">Wojo's Weapons: Winning With White, Volume II</a></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> by Jonathan Hilton </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and Dean Ippolito, Boston: Mongoose Press (2013): 250-267. See the <a href="http://www.newinchess.com/Shop/Images/PDFs/6075.pdf">Table of Contents</a> online. Recommends meeting Black's "premature flank attack" with "a counterstrike in the center" with 8.e4, after which it advocates Ippolito's pet line 8...Bg4 9.h3 Bxf3 10.Qxf3!? which most sources say is weaker than 10.Bxf3 because the d4 pawn is left unguarded -- but the IM has had success nonetheless. The book offers excellent coverage of this line for amateur players as White, because the games generally feature the sort of mistakes by Black that amateur players will often see over the board. Featured games include <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/110292">Pigusov - Zaichik, Moscow 1987</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1393766">Lechtynsky - Kranzl, Linz 1993</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=1059103">Wojtkiewicz - Huss, Germany 1998</a>; </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Wojtkiewicz - de Guzman, Los Angeles 2004; Ippolito - Gross, New York 1995; Ippolito - Smith, Foxwood 2000. An interesting game (not mentioned in the book) is <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1488809">Ippolito - Becera Rivero, Foxwoods 2008</a>, where Black equalized easily with ...e5.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"An Interesting System for Black Against KID g3" by Eugene Perelshteyn, <a href="http://chesslecture.com/">ChessLecture.com</a> (November 29, 2013). </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A 16-minute video offering an overview of the Kavalek system in the King's Indian Defense vs White's g3 based on </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">GM Perelshteyn's analysis, with no specific games cited</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. By subscription only.</span></div>
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<a href="http://chessbase-shop.com/en/products/bojkov_modern_way_to_play_the_kings_indian" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">A Modern Way to Play the King's Indian</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> by </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dejan Bojkov, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ChessBase DVD (2011).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A really excellent video, which focuses on using the "modern" Na6 (against the Classical, Four Pawn Attack, and h3 lines, for example) and some less usual alternatives -- including the Kavalek System against the Fianchetto Variation. Thanks to a reader for reminding me about this resource, which I had mentioned in my previous bibliography on the <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/02/classical-kings-indian-with-6na6.html" target="_blank">Classical King's Indian with 6...Na6</a> but forgot to include here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"King's Indian for Black: Part III" by David Vigorito, <a href="http://chesslecture.com/">ChessLecture.com</a> (April 10, 2006)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A 22:40 online video on the King's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation (ECO: E62) that offers a useful overview of the Kavalek system with ...c6 and ....Qa5. By subscription only.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Kings-Indian-Battle-Plans-Martin/dp/1888710004">King's Indian Battle Plans</a> </i>by Andrew Martin, Thinker's Press (2004): 148-151. I like this book because it contains a wide variety of ideas and approaches, unlike normal "repertoire" books with their mono-cultures -- which makes it a good place to discover lines you might not have seen, such as the Kavalek System. Features the games <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1221883">Ljubojevic - Hausrath, Enschede 2002</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/158862">Loginov - Khairullin, Samara 2002</a>; and <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/360134">Marin - Hillarp Persson, Goteborg 1999</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://polskaksiegarnia.pl/ksiazka/7538/g2-g3-w-obronie-krolewsko-indyjskiej-cz2" target="_blank">g2-g3 w obronie królewsko-indyjskiej, część 2</a>, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jerzy Konikowski, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Wydawnictwo Szachowe Penelopa, (1999) OR </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Königsindisch mit g2-g3, band 2, Jerzy Konikowski, Dreier (1999).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fianchetto-Kings-Indian-Colin-McNab/dp/1879479400"><i>The Fianchetto King's Indian</i></a> by Colin McNab, International Chess Enterprises / Batsford (1996): 168-186. Offers very balanced and thorough coverage of the Kavalek with extensive notes on a few main games. Main games include <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1108717">Yusupov - Piket, Groningen 1992</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/215720">Akopian - Sokolov, Leon 1995</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1108416">Dorfman - Piket, Lvov 1988</a>; and <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1221715">Ilincic - Damljanovic, Novi Sad 1995</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"King's Indian Defence, Fianchetto Variation" by Leon Pliester, with notes by Pia Cramling, <a href="http://www.newinchess.com/Archives/SurveysList.aspx?&YearbookID=1"><i>New in Chess Yearbook</i> #37</a> (1995): 158-163. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Focuses on the line 8.h3 Be6 9.d5 cxd5 10.Nd4, when Black can sacrifice the Exchange, as in the featured game <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1421901">Portisch - Cramling, Prague 1995</a>, by 10...dxc4!? 11.Nxe6 fxe6 12.Bxb7 Nbd7 13.Bxa8 Rxa8 with excellent compensation, as Cramling's notes support. Other games include <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1040401">Saidy - Dzindzichashvili, New York Open 1989</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/209969">Casafus - Cramling, Buenos Aires 1994</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1221687">Kuzmin - Vukic, Biel open 1988</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/877975">Granda Zuniga - Stanec, Moscow ol 1994</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/215720">Akopian - Sokolov, Leon 1995</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/120562">Schulze - Barle, Bern 1992</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1383373">Agdestein - Plachetka, Malmo open 1986</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1145793">Vagainian - Cvitan, Sarajevo 1987</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2382720">Georgiev - Ermenkov, Sofia 1984</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2377264">Tatai - Vukic, Lugano open 1984</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/212196">Pigusov - Barlov, Sochi 1985</a>; Nikolic - Vukic, Yugoslavia 1985; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1217203">Jasnikowski - Yuferov, Mikolajki tt 1991</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2052520">Fominikh - Tseitlin, Rimavska Sobota 1991</a>; Raupp - Kvamme, Correspondence 1990; Schone - Muse, Bad Neuenahr 1991; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2033308">Ornstein - Johansson, Helsingborg 1991</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=1787432">Navarovsky - Muse, Budapest 1993</a>; Vlatkovic - Ristic, Igalo tt 1994; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1108416">Dorfman - Piket, Lvov 1988</a>; and <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/392805">Cekro - Claesen, Geel 1995</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"King's Indian Defence, Fianchetto Variation" by Rustem Dautov, <a href="http://www.newinchess.com/Archives/SurveysList.aspx?&YearbookID=29"><i>New in Chess Yearbook</i> #36</a> (1995): 162-166. Focuses on the main line 7...Qa5 8.e4 Bg4 9.h3 Bxf3 when Dautov recommends White pursue 10.Bxf3 Nfd7 11.Rb1! as in his featured game <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2999374">Dautov - Har Zvi, Altensteig 1994</a>. He also offers an excellent overview of the critical 8.e4 line, which many authors suggest is White's best try for advantage. Games include <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1108689">Salov - Piket, Brussels 1992</a>; <a href="http://www.chess.com/games/view?id=429536">Djuric - Barlov, New York Open 1988</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2053351">Djuric - Kozul, Bled / Rogaska Slatina 1991</a>; Anderton - Snape, Corr. 1993; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2898104">Vukic - Stohl, Austria 1992</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2020614">Kharitonov - Forthoffer, Leningrad Open 1991</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2613574">Lengyel - Honfi, Kecskemet 1968</a>; <a href="http://chess-db.com/public/game.jsp?id=2019540.2000113.7066112">Goldin - Dzindzichashvili, Philadelphia It 1992</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1299092">Smejkal - Muse, German Bundesliga 1992</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1223565">Hulak - Rogic, Slavonski Brod 1995</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/154208">Kindermann - Maus, Hamburg 1991</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1108391">Pigusov - Piket, Dordrecht 1988</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1320602">Razuvaev - Soltis, New York Open 1989</a>; <a href="http://www.chess.com/games/view?id=733072">Dizdar - Kozul, Slavonski Brod 1995</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/417154">Pigusov - Kozul, Beograd GMA 1988</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1108717">Yusupov - Piket, Groningen 1992</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/110212">Tukmakov - Romero Holmes, Las Palmas 1992</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/198444">Vaganian - Lechtynsky, German Bundesliga 1992</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1214359">Tukmakov - Kamsky, Groningen PCA 1993</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1221770">Antic - Sibarevic, Banja Vrucica 1991</a>; Stern - Van den Brink, Pumerend 1993; and <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/224085">Goldin - Har Zvi, Rishon-le-Zion 1995</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Winning-Kings-Indian-Aggressive-Repertoire/dp/1870816048">Winning with the King's Indian: An Aggressive Repertoire for Black</a> by Andrew Martin, Caissa Books (1989): 50-61. This book was an early influence on my King's Indian repertoire, but I was surprised at how few of its recommendations I follow any more. However, it recommends the Kavalek System against the White fianchetto, featuring the games <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1065513">Shamkovich - Jansa, Esbjerg 1982</a> and Ahmylovskaya - Nenad Ristic, Tbilisi 1987. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Kings-Indian-Defence-Algebraic-Openings/dp/0713436050">King's Indian Defence, g3 Systems</a> by Efim Geller, Batsford (1980): 112-116. Following a discussion of an interesting Byrne-like system with 7...a6 planning 8...b5, Geller examines Kavalek's 7...Qa5, discussing the three main lines 8.d5, 8.e4, and 8.h3. Game references include <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1062975">Ivkov - Bronstein, Zagreb 1965</a>; <a href="http://www.chess.com/games/view?id=194758">Furman - Tukmakov, Baku 1972</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1061815">Ivkov - Larsen, Zagreb 1965</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2412003" target="_blank">Gufeld - Lerner, Vilnius 1972</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2613574">Lengyel - Honfi, Kecskemet 1968</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1032785" target="_blank">Botvinnik - Larsen, Monte Carlo 1968</a>; Quinteros - Panno, Mar del Plata 1969; Pachman - Tseshkovsky, Manila 1976; Cherepkov - Polugaevsky, USSR Ch 1969; Sokolov - Ivanovic, Yugoslavia 1971; Antoshin - Tsheshkovsky, Sochi 1974; Barcza - Trapl, Decin 1975; Janosevic - Vukic, Yugoslavia 1975; Csom - Ostojic, Sao Paulo 1973; Pfleger - Kavalek, Monstilla 1974; Smejkal - Torre, Leningrad 1973; Vukic - Martinovic; Janosevic - Vukic, Sarajevo 1971; Ivkov - Kavalek, Amsterdam 1968; Portisch - Kavalek, Skopje ol 1972; Quinteros - Torre, Olot 1973; Marovic - Micheli, Madonna di Campiglio 1974; Smejkal - Tal, Leningrad 1973; Liebert - Balashov, Leipzig 1973; and Portisch - Torre, Manilla 1974.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Kings-Indian-Defence-Fianchetto-Variations/dp/B000MDHMGA/">King's Indian Defence 2: White Fianchetto Variations</a> by Lajos Portisch, Oscar Panno, Lubosh Kavalek, David Bronstein, Ulf Andersson, and John Grefe, RHM Press (1979): 15-32. Surprisingly, the section on the Kavalek Variation is written by John Grefe and not Kavalek. Grefe represents the main line as 7...Qa5 8.h3 e5 9.e4 exd4 10.Nxd4 Qc5 following games of Vaganian, but this line is no longer current. Game references include Panno - Cuartas, Bogota 1977; Padevski - Milicevic, Kragujevac 1977; Brown - Soltis, US Open 1978; Kirov - Ermenkov, Albena 1977; Rohde - Soltis, New York 1977; Hulak - Vukic, Vinkovci 1977; Webb - Fedorowicz, Hastings 1977/1978; Poutiainen - Ostojic, Stockholm 1976/1977; Keene - Korchnoi, Beersheva 1978; Csom - Mariotti, European Club Ch 1979; Kapelan - Quinteros, Vrsac 1977; Bleiman - Birnboim, Israeli Championship 1978; Tukmakov - Petrushin, USSR 1977; Ostojic - Valenti, Rome 1977; Watson - Soltis, New York 1977; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/356718" target="_blank">Lein - Soltis, New York 1977</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/120561" target="_blank">Rind - Haik, London 1978</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/215718" target="_blank">Schmidt - Krnic, Belgrade 1977</a>; A. Petrosian - Tukmakov, USSR 1st League Ch 1977; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1215603" target="_blank">Tatai - Vaganian, Rome 1977</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/215717" target="_blank">Csom - Vaganian, Buenos Aires Ol 1978</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1155282" target="_blank">Whiteley - Littlewood, British Ch 1978</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1583446" target="_blank">Ribli - Vaganian, Leningrad 1977</a>; A. Petrosian - Vaganian, USSR Ch 1977; and <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2469682" target="_blank">Romanishin - Karner, Tallinn 1977</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Other Fianchetto Systems" by Raymond Keene, Chapter 5 from </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Kings-Indian-Defence-Leonard-Barden/dp/0713403675" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The King's Indian Defence</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> by Leonard Barden, William Hartston, and Raymond Keene, B.T. Batsford Limited (1973): 95-100. Keene describes the Kavalek Variation as "a scheme for Black involving an early ...c6, retardation of ....e5, and reliance on piece activity." In general, he finds that White still has a slight pull in the best lines. Cited games include <a href="http://www.redhotpawn.com/chess/grandmaster-games/viewmastergame.php?pgnid=136316&subject=Renato_Naranja_vs_Tigran_V_Petrosian">Naranja - Petrosian, Havana 1966</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2402626">Rukavina - Vukic, Sarajevo 1971</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1153926">Savon - Kavalek, Sarajevo 1967</a>; Grdinic - Nemet, Vrnjacka Banja 1966; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2619621">Cherepkov - Polugaevsky, USSR Ch 1969</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1032785">Botvinnik - Larsen, Monaco 1968</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2613574">Lengyel - Honfi, Kecakemet 1968</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2613365">Kozma - Ostojic, Monaco 1968</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1126116">Lengyel - Smyslov, Polanica Zdroj 1966</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1062975">Ivkov - Bronstein, Zagreb 1965</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1027596">Bilek - Kavalek, The Hague 1966</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1270847">Filip - Larsen, Zagreb 1965</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1034387">Kozma - Bronstein, Debrecen 1967</a>; <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/745952">Brond - Quinteros, Mar del Plata 1971</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1061815">Ivkov - Larsen, Zagreb 1965</a>; Kozma - Honfi, Monaco 1968; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2389591">Ivkov - Yepez, Caracas 1970</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1530801">Marovic - Bertok, Zagreb 1965</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1158756">Smejkal - Wright, Hastings 1968-1969</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1298135">Smejkal - Jacobsen, Raach 1969</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2400841">Vaganian - Vukic, USSR-Yugoslavia 1971</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2400949">Zhidkov - Litvinov, USSR 1971</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2400109">Kushnir - Zatulovskaya, Match (9) 1971</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1067634">Karpov - Wittman, Mayaguez 1971</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2402606">Janosevic - Vukic, Sarajevo 1971</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1581204">Podgayets - Litvinov, USSR 1971</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2395712">Podgayets - Vukic, Sombor 1970</a>; <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1063058">Ivkov - Kavalek, Amsterdam 1968</a>; <a href="http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2390855">Quinteros - Poch, Mar del Plata 1970</a>; and <a href="http://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1221664">Donner - Kavalek, Amsterdam 1968</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As always, I welcome additions and suggestions from readers. I was surprised not to find many YouTube videos on this line and suspect that there are more out there. And there are likely some older articles and books worth mentioning.</span></div>
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Michael Goellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512012158305281566noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-71186702280339950852014-04-07T00:50:00.000-04:002014-04-07T00:50:11.047-04:00How Passed Pawns Win 'Master Games'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have annotated the game <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/hort-pfleger-master-game.htm" target="_blank">Vlastimil Hort - Helmut Pfleger, BBC TV's Master Game 1979-1980</a> (<a href="https://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/kenilworth-pgn/hort-pfleger-master-game.pgn" target="_blank">PGN</a>) (<a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/hort-pfleger-master-game.htm" target="_blank">Replay</a>), </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">which William Hartston described as "an elegant win" </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in his comments on Series 5 of BBC TV's <a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/03/bbcs-master-game.html" target="_blank">The Master Game</a>. In response to Pfleger's provocative Tartakower Variation of the Caro-Kann Defense (1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3,Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nxf6+ exf6!?), which promises White the long term advantage of a strong queenside majority with which he can create a passed pawn, Hort plays simple chess, accumulating small advantages, including a passed d-pawn which he uses to win the game (see diagram below). </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">Position after 26...Ba4 in Hort - Pfleger, <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/80-BBC-Master-Game-5.htm" target="_blank">Series 5</a><br />
White to play and win.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The winning line requires precise play and is shown in the </span><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/hort-pfleger-master-game.htm" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">annotated game</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you enjoyed solving that position, you might also try the following three puzzles from other games played in </span><a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/03/bbcs-master-game.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">The Master Game</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> tournaments</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">. In each position, a passed pawn wins the game.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Position after 37.Rxb4? in Hecht - Christiansen, <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/82-BBC-Master-Game-7.htm" target="_blank">Series 7</a><br />
Black to play and win.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Position after 85...Ra5 in Larsen - Donner, <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/81-BBC-Master-Game-6.htm" target="_blank">Series 6</a><br />
White to play and win.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Position after 34...Ke7 in Miles - Schmid, <a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/77-BBC-Master-Game-3.htm" target="_blank">Series 3</a><br />
White to play and win.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;">BBC TV Master Game, Series 7 - Group B London, England (1), 1982</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;">37....Rc3xc2+! and White resigned because 38.Rd2xc2 Rc8xc2+ 39.Kb2xc2 g3xh2 and the pawn queens 0–1</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;">BBC TV Master Game, Series 6, Group B London, England (1), 1981</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">86.a6-a7! Kc7-b7 [86...Ra5xa7 87.Rf8-f7+ Kc7-b6 88.Rf7xa7 Kb6xa7 89.Kd3-d4 Ka7-b6 90.Kd4xd5 Kb6-c7 91.Kd5-e5+-] 87.a7-a8Q+ and Black resigned because 87...Ra5xa8 88.Rf8xa8 Kb7xa8 89.Kd3-d4 Ka8-b7 90.Kd4xd5 Kb7-c7 91.Kd5-e5 Kc7-d7 92.Ke5xf5 Kd7-e7 93.Kf5-e5! 1–0</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;">BBC TV Master Game, Series 3 London, England (1), 1977</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">35.b2-b4! a5xb4? [a better try is 35...Ke7-d6 36.b4xa5 Kd6-c7! (36...Kd6xd5 37.a5-a6 Kd5-c6 38.a6-a7 Kc6xb7 39.a7xb8Q+ Kb7xb8 40.f2-f4 Kb8-c7 41.Kg1–f2+- wins for White) 37.a5-a6 Kc7-b6 38.Bd5-c4 Kb6-a7 39.g2-g3 and White has a winning advantage] 36.a4-a5 Rb8xb7 [36...Ke7-d6 37.a5-a6 Kd6xd5 38.a6-a7 Rb8xb7 39.a7-a8Q Kd5-c6 40.Qa8-c8+ Kc6-b6 41.Qc8xf5+-] 37.Bd5xb7 b4-b3 38.Bb7-a6 and the Bishop can stop Black's pawn by getting to d3. 1–0</span></div>
Michael Goellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512012158305281566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-22765598752695165712014-03-31T00:51:00.000-04:002017-01-09T15:00:37.016-05:00BBC's The Master Game<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_Game">The Master Game</a> chess program from the BBC has been issued on DVD in response to online interest, including lobbying by bloggers like <a href="http://chessforallages.blogspot.com/search?q=bbc%3A+the+master+game">Mark Weeks</a> and the obvious consumer interest in the program evidenced by many popular copyright infringements on YouTube. I have compiled PGN files of the games in Series 1-7 and information for purchasing DVDs and books below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Master Game was the first program to show chess on television in a way that had a chance of connecting with the larger chess-playing public. As producer Robert Toner notes:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had seen many forms of television chess coverage, but none of them was satisfactory. Pieces would disappear from one square and appear in another, and only experts seemed to be able to follow a game. Also, it was all so remote, I felt no involvement with the game or the players. What we needed was direct access into their thoughts, not the high-speed technical thoughts of a chess-playing mind, but thoughts put in such a way that anyone who knew the rules would be able to follow the most complicated game. (Foreword, <i>The Master Game</i>, 1979)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The system Toner developed had players compete in a knock-out tournament at a BBC studio, where the games themselves were recorded; then, about two days later, the players recreated their thoughts during the game in a sound studio. The games were played under tournament conditions, with forty moves in two-and-a-half hours followed by an hour sudden death. (In the first three series, with absolute knockout format, there were also rules for replaying drawn games, but in later tournaments the rules were changed to avoid replays.) The game play was edited to a 30-minute program, so the audience did not have to endure long and unpredictable delays between moves, and commentary by the players was added. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What made the program so successful was the fiction that the players were commenting on the games as they were happening, with the comments always expressed in present-tense form, thus creating a sense of engagement and immediacy that is not achieved in other formats, except perhaps in the now ubiquitous videos where players comment on their blitz games while in progress. The types of comments offered by the players were also quite effective at communicating the way GMs usually choose a move, relying more on chess reasoning and intuition than the calculation of long variations, except where the position called for that. Though we now have access to a lot of chess on video, no one seems to have invested the time and resources to create a similar product, though Maurice Ashley's <a href="http://www.chesscentral.com/Speed_Chess_Superblitz_Knockout_Championship_Qual_p/2417099.htm">Speed Chess DVD</a> comes close, substituting exciting play-by-play commentary for the players' own thoughts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Besides serving as excellent instructional videos, these DVDs are worth having for the living history they contain. Where else are you going to find the great players of the 70s and 80s commenting on their games? The Series 7 DVD also contains a bonus documentary feature about Matthew Sadler titled "The Lowdown: The Master of the Game" (1989). Highly recommended.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Purchase DVDs</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The videos can be purchased directly from <a href="http://www.odeonent.co.uk/ecf-landing-page">Odeon Entertainment</a> as DVDs or digital downloads. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So far they have re-issued Series 6 and Series 7, which</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> can also be purchased from</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.newinchess.com/Shop/ProductsList.aspx?Keywords=the%20master%20game" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">New in Ches</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.newinchess.com/Shop/ProductsList.aspx?Keywords=the%20master%20game">s</a>, <a href="http://www.chess.co.uk/">Chess & Bridge</a> and other European online re-sellers. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have not been able to identify a U.S. distributor, but I had no trouble ordering from New in Chess, which always provides excellent service. One important note: the DVDs are "Region 0" and PAL format, so they will not play on older DVD players made for the U</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.S.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> market. I have a ten-year-old DVD player on which they do not play, but they do work on my computer's DVD player with no problem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.newinchess.com/BBC__The_Master_Game_Series_6-p-3269.html" target="_blank">BBC: The Master Game Series 6</a>. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Contains all 13 30-minute programs for a total of 390 minutes on two DVDs, featuring</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bent Larsen, Nigel Short, Svetozar Gligoric, Vlastimil Hort, Robert Byrne, Tony Miles, Lothar Schmid and Jan Hein Donner.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.newinchess.com/BBC__The_Master_Game_Series_7-p-3270.html" target="_blank">BBC: The Master Game Series 7</a>. Contains all 13 30-minute programs for a total of 390 minutes on two DVDs, featuring Andras Adorjan, Nigel Short, Walter Browne, Eric Lobron, Raymond Keene, Larry Christiansen, Miguel Quinteros and Hans-Joachim Hecht.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Games and PGN File Downloads</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have annotated one of the better games in "<a href="http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/04/how-passed-pawns-win-master-games.html" target="_blank">How Passed Pawns Win 'Master Games</a>'" on this blog, which includes several passed pawn puzzles from the series. I have also collected all of the games played in the Master Game tournaments and posted them as separate PGN files for download or Java replay: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/75-BBC-Master-Game-1.htm" target="_blank">Series 1</a> - 1975 (<a href="https://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/kenilworth-pgn/BBC-Master-Game/75-BBC-Master-Game-1.pgn">PGN</a>) (<a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/75-BBC-Master-Game-1.htm" target="_blank">Java replay</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/76-BBC-Master-Game-2.htm" target="_blank">Series 2</a> - 1976 (<a href="https://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/kenilworth-pgn/BBC-Master-Game/76-BBC-Master-Game-2.pgn">PGN</a>) (<a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/76-BBC-Master-Game-2.htm" target="_blank">Java replay</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/77-BBC-Master-Game-3.htm" target="_blank">Series 3</a> - 1977</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(<a href="https://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/kenilworth-pgn/BBC-Master-Game/77-BBC-Master-Game-3.pgn">PGN</a>)</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(<a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/77-BBC-Master-Game-3.htm" target="_blank">Java replay</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/79-BBC-Master-Game-4.htm" target="_blank">Series 4</a> - 1979</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(<a href="https://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/kenilworth-pgn/BBC-Master-Game/79-BBC-Master-Game-4.pgn">PGN</a>)</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(<a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/79-BBC-Master-Game-4.htm" target="_blank">Java replay</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/80-BBC-Master-Game-5.htm" target="_blank">Series 5</a> - 1980</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(<a href="https://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/kenilworth-pgn/BBC-Master-Game/80-BBC-Master-Game-5.pgn">PGN</a>)</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(<a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/80-BBC-Master-Game-5.htm" target="_blank">Java replay</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/81-BBC-Master-Game-6.htm" target="_blank">Series 6</a> - 1981</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(<a href="https://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/kenilworth-pgn/BBC-Master-Game/81-BBC-Master-Game-6.pgn">PGN</a>)</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(<a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/81-BBC-Master-Game-6.htm" target="_blank">Java replay</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/82-BBC-Master-Game-7.htm" target="_blank">Series 7</a> - 1982</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(<a href="https://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/kenilworth-pgn/BBC-Master-Game/82-BBC-Master-Game-7.pgn">PGN</a>)</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(<a href="http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2014/82-BBC-Master-Game-7.htm" target="_blank">Java replay</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Special thanks to Tom Martinak from the <a href="http://www.pitt.edu/~schach/Archives/index2.html">Pitt Chess Archives</a> for supplying me with the PGN files from the first three series, which saved me a lot of trouble compiling them by hand. The Pitt Archives were taken down due to security concerns over their FTP hosting, but I understand they will eventually be available again when a new host is chosen. I found PGN files of other games at 365chess and Chessgames.com, and some games I added by hand from the books (see below). I have followed the books for game order and moves where sources disagreed. Unfortunately, only very late in my research did I discover Mark Weeks's excellent <a href="http://www.mark-weeks.com/cfaa/bbc-mstr.zip">zipped PGN</a> of the games, which saved me from having to compile Series 6 by hand. I think the files are now complete, but I welcome corrections and additions if I have overlooked anything.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Books</b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The copies of the books I own are wider than represented.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The books of <i>The Master Game</i> are out of print but available for purchase from various online sellers of used books. I was fortunately able to purchase them both for under $10 each (with shipping), but I suspect the price will rise significantly as the series attracts renewed interest. Both are excellent books and I hope the BBC considers re-issuing them to accompany the DVDs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Master-LEONARD-BARDEN-JEREMY-JAMES/dp/0563174374/">The Master Game</a> by Jeremy James and Leonard Barden, British Broadcasting Corporation (1979)</span>. <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Contains all of the games from the first three series (1975, 1976, and 1977), with a foreword by producer Robert Toner, biographies of the players in each series, and the 36 annotated games (with notes drawing from the GM commentary on the show), plus opening and player indexes. In algebraic notation. This is a very attractive and well edited book.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Master-William-Hartston-Jeremy-James/dp/0563179163/">The Master Game, Book Two</a> by Jeremy James and William Hartston, British Broadcasting Corporation (1981). </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Contains 41 annotated games from Series 4, 5, and 6 (1979, 1980, and 1981), plus the game scores from the first three series. Like the first volume, it has biographies of players and indexes.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Videos Online</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There have been a number of people posting The Master Game videos online, but most have been taken down recently as the publisher has moved to protect the copyright in anticipation of re-issuing them on DVD. Only the first two videos below are official trailers, so the others may vanish at any time.</span><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/4fbU-ZyBKPY" width="400"></iframe> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Links</b></span><br />
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_Game" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">The Master Game</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at Wikipedia</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://chessforallages.blogspot.com/search?q=bbc%3A+the+master+game">Chess for All Ages on The Master Game</a> by Mark Weeks</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.mark-weeks.com/cfaa/bbc-mstr.zip">Mark Weeks PGN Zip</a></span></li>
<li><a href="http://en.chessbase.com/post/bbc-the-master-game-revived-on-dvd-030713" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">BBC: The Master Game revived on DVD</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, ChessBase (July 2, 2013)</span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.baligu.com/the-master-game.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">The Master Game</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by Jonathan Berger</span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/bbcs-the-master-game-on-youtube" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">BBC's The Mater Game on YouTube</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by Peter Doggers</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1028044">BBC Master Game Series 1</a> by RedShield at Chessgames.com</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1028051">BBC Master Game Series 2</a> by RedShield at Chessgames.com</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1028057">BBC Master Game Series 3</a> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by RedShield at Chessgames.com</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1028058">BBC Master Game Series 4</a> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by RedShield at Chessgames.com</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.365chess.com/tournaments/London_BBC_TV_1975">London BBC TV 1975</a> at 365chess</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.365chess.com/tournaments/London_BBC_TV-B_1979">London BBC TV-B 1979</a> at 365chess</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.365chess.com/tournaments/London_BBC_TV-A_1979/24623">London BBC TV-A 1979</a> at 365chess</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.365chess.com/tournaments/London_BBC_TV-f_1pl_1979/24625">London BBC TV-final 1979</a> at 365chess</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.365chess.com/tournaments/London_BBC_TV-A_1981">London BBC TV-A</a> 1981 at 365chess</span></li>
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