Beating the London System Using the King's Indian Set-Up Love the King's Indian but hate the London System? Don't worry, you don't have to play ...d7-d5! View More Accelerated Dragon with Nxc6 and e4-e5: Stopping White's Play ...
True, the London System is all the rage at the moment but there will come a time when even club players will rediscover the truth that 1.d4 followed by 2.c4 (instead of 2 Nf3 or 2 Bf4) is the best way to play for an advantage in the opening. Meeting 1.d4 with 1…d5 keeps ...
This opening arises after the moves 1.d4 e5 2.dxe5 d6, and after 3.exd6 Bxd6, Black seizes the initiative with rapid development. This gambit also prevents White from playing popular systems like the Queen’s Gambit or the London System, as you challenge their control of the center rig...
Irregular openings are chess openings with an unusual first move from White. These openings are all categorized under the ECO code A00. isolani Refers to a d-pawn with no pawns of the same color on the adjacent c-file and e-file, and is a synonym for isolated queen pawn. The term wa...
GrahamClayton: The Prins variation of the Grunfeld Defence is 1. d4 ♘f6 2. c4 g6 3. ♘c3 d5 4. ♘f3 ♗g7 5. ♕b3 dc4 6. ♕c4 0-0 7. e4 ♘a6 Source: David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld "Oxford Companion to Chess", OUP, 1992 ...
d4 exd4 4.c3! It was first played in London, 1851; Horwitz, playing White, drew Henry Bird. Bill Wall has played over 20 games in this line, far more than anyone else it appears, and has won all of them. After 14 rounds and over three weeks of play in Toronto, 17-year-old ...
lines tend perhaps to be more inter-related and one choice rules out another. This book has a market but maybe not for the player experienced with these openings, like Najdorfslayer. For me, looking for an alternative answer to d4, it hits the mark by stressing ideas and giving a whole...
The London against the Dutch by Kiril Georgiev, 200 pagesAvailable for Ipad, Android and Windows The book proposes a White repertoire against all variants of the Dutch in the spirit of the London System with 1.d4 f5 2.Bf4. Georgiev also covers the tricky move orders 1.d4 e6 2.Nf3 f5...
Posted inChess History,Chess Openings,Modern Benoni,The 2010s|4 Comments » The Fabulous 10’s: A TN Discovered on the 8th Move July 4, 2011 Fortuitous TN Discovery I think I discovered a TN looking at the game Laznicka-Morozevich, Pamploma 2006. ...
1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 d6 4.Bg5 I would prefer 4. Be3 guarding the sensitive d4 point. c6 5.Qd2 b5 6.f4 Nf6 7.Bd3 b4 8.Nd1 This shouldn’t be a “scare” system for black but white is solid. Qb6 9.c3 e5!? Maybe too sharp. 10.fxe5 dxe5 11.Nf3 exd4 12.c...