Exeter Chess Club: Playing Black in e - pawn games Dr. Dave January 17, 2004Contents 1 Introduction 2 Analysis 3 Less usual tries for White 31 a2 33 34 ‘The Vienna Opening, 2. Ned 3.11 Vienna Gambit, 3. A 3.1.2 Vienna Game with 3. 23 3.13 Vienna Game with 3, Bet Bishop’s opening, 2. Bel. . ‘The King’s Gambit, 2. [4 3.3.1 King’s Bishop’s Gambit, 3. Bed 3.3.2 King’s Knight's Gambit, 3. NB. Centre Game and: Danish Gambit, 2. d4 1 Centre Game, 3. Qxdd 2 Danish ambit, 3. ¢3: 4 White plays 2. NfS 4 42 43 Neo Ruy Lopez, 3. Bbi 4.2.1 The Exchange vazintion 4. Bxe6 4.22 Lopez Four Knights’ Variation, 5. Nek 4.23 The Andersson-Steinity line, 5. 43 1.24 Open Morphy Variation with 5... Nxed 4.2.5 Cordel Defence 3...Be5 1.26 An altemative to the Open Morphy: Archangel Variation with 5..b5 3. dd Seateh Gun end gambit. 43.1 Scotch Game with 5. Be3 4.3.2 Scotch Game with 5. Nb3 433 Scotch And Goring Gambits 13 13 13 uM 16 " 17 18 19 a 2 2 Ey5 44 4s 3. Bel ‘Two Knight's Defence, 3... NIG 4.5.1 The Max Lange Attack 4, d4 45.2 Main line Two Knights! with 4. Ngé 4.5.3 Closed variation with 4. d3 454 Two Knights’ with 4. Ne’. Example Games Bal Max Lange Attack 5.1.1 Enwe - Reti (Amsterdam) 1920 5.1.2 Estrin - Riskin (Moscow) 1963 Main Line Two Knights’ Defence 1 Bibikov - Neishtadt (USSR) 1946 5.22 Hoffer-Unknown, 1913 Wilkes-Barre Variation 5.8.1 Noikirch ~ Halir (Corr) 1969 582 EstrinrZaitsev, 1969 5.83 Batrin-Weiss,1972 5.8.4 Kunz-Hentagen, Corr. 1973 5.8.5 Wirtz - Fahnensehmiclt (Marburg) 1955, 32 3 Fa 2 3‘Au Exeter Junior Chess Club booklet Edition 2.9, April, 95 Bibliography: Kasparov/Keene, Batsford Chess Openings Levy/Keene, An Opening Repertoire for the At- tacking Club Player Walker, Chess Openings for Juniors Various magazines and other booksChapter 1 Introduction ‘The two general opening rules are: Rule 1: Develop as fast and as actively as you can Rule 2: Get a stake in the centre, and try to stop your opponent. What does this mean in the e-pawn openings? Plan A for White: try and build a big centre with c8,d4 ete. try and destroy Black's hold with f or d4 n the centre You can see that the auove d4 inay do both: after lexi, exdld Black's centre pawn has disappeared and White has the perfect pawn contre. This is the worst ease for Black Plan A for Black: Rule 1: develop as fast as you can Rule 2: try to hang on to your own stake in. the centre, or at least make sure you destroy White's as well. Both sides may be able to maintain the e-pawn centre with pawns on ed/e5, or these may disap- pear and both sides have a central d-pawn (d4/d5). Lastly, all four central pawns may vanish, In each cease Black should have equal play if White doesn’t do much, grab as much of the centre as you can Again, the move ...d5 often forms part of Black's plans. If Black can play this in safety, you will usually have equalised at least e-pawn centre With or without the d-pawns the natural break is H/..., and either side can hope to plant a Knight on £4/f5. d-pawn centre The open e-file usually means exchanges of the heavy pieces, as neither side ean afford to abandon control of the file. square to plonk a Knight is e1/e5 ‘The right vanished centre With both files open exchanges aro likely, and unless one side can sieze the centre by force, or has the two bishops, play is drawish, So, let's have a look at some variations.Chapter 2 AnalysisChapter 3 Less usual tries for White 3.1 Nc3 ‘This old move is not bad: it threatens nothing but holds up Black’s ...d5, and leaves open the possi- bility of 3. £4. How should Black reply? 2. oy QB ‘This is Rule 1 you can dovelop as fast and as actively as White has several choices here: 3. £4, 3. Sed and 3. g8 are common The Vienna Opening, 2. 3.1.1 Vienna Gambit, 3. f4 Be dB, And this is Rule 2: keep hold of your share of the back with ..d5. [The move 3. .-., d6 but blocks in the BES and gives up 8. ..., d5 is all right.) Now you should get an equal game, although, as always, you must be careful 4. fxe5 [ 4. exd5 exif 5. df db 6. We2+ dS! Inkion- Pinter, 1982. BCO2 give this as a slight edge to Black} 4.4 Axed5. d3 [Natural development by 7. Bd3 [5 3. exf6 Bxf6 9. O-O Bcb 10. BIT 11 oF WAT 12 RFF Bard leads to a | pawn type of centre 5. DP Re7 6. dj 0-0 wi aa Now after 5. d3 Black can simplify carefully and gain equality Be. QXEB 6. bees dd 6.1, Be7 18 more solid-looking, perhaps T. DB D6 8. exdd Dxdd [nstead 8,..., Rb4+ 9. Rd? Bx d2+ 10. Wxd2 @xds 11. c3 QxfIt 12. gxf2 Wh4t 13. Whe We /2t 14. x2 f6 is level: 9. 3 DxBt 10. WB c6 11. dd What 12, 28 Wed 13. ie? WB 14. xf seb with a level endgame; not much chance for Black to win in this line Pm afraid. 3.1.2 Vienna Game with 3. 23 This line was fashionable amongst masters a few years ago. White isn't doing much, so just follow rules one and two: first develop: Bey Bob 4. Bg? 0-0 5, dB Bes Then hit, back with ..d8. 6. Age? 6 7. 0-0 d5 8. exd5 Axds 9. Eh det =with a level game, as in Portisel-Toran 1961. Vienna Game with 3. Bet ZAoWwe = 3.1.3 4cbda bb a I recommend you reply Dxed 4. WHE i¢ an exciting line 8, Adé 5. B69 qASWee EK a ee aaa when Black can survive with ... Be?, but I don’t think you should let White get into this line [Fritz reckons you should play 7. 4. d3 Qb4 5. DPB d6 6. O-O Bxe3 7. bxed ho} 8. Bb3 AXbI 9. exb3. When play is level 3.2 Bishop’s opening, 2. Bed qAoWwean Asha bb This became fashionable as a way of avoiding the Petroff. The right move is Now White's most common move is: 3. a3 The line 3. df xd 4. Qfd is the dangerous Urusoff Garabit 4...., Dxef when 5. Wxdj BIE 295 Re7 7. Bed c6 8. 0-0-0 dd 9. Hhet Seb leads to a strong attacking game for WhiteSimply 4. .... B06 5. 0-0 transposes to the Two Knights” lines below) Dee 4. 63 ‘This transpases to a quiet line ofthe Italian (Gioco Piano/Two Knights’) group of openings [ 4. Jh is the only attempt to be original, but is a poor version of the King's Gambit where White has deen committed ta d2-d9. One line might go: Ao vey CXL 5. 05-05 6, eX f6 dred 7 fay BXG7 B Rif eds 9. ox ds We7+ 10. Dye? &xb2, when White isin all sorts of trouble] 4. ..., ReT 5. O-O 0-0 6. Qb3 Having developed quickly, you are now ready for 6... d5 7. exd5 Qxd5 8. Hel Set 9. hd W ae rey Saba "na Now, the book line goes: 9. sy BNE 10. gd BgG 11. Axed O)xe5 12. axes, when BCO2 gives; 12. ..., Qb= Dolmatov-Chekhov, 1981. This is a move Gary Lane ignores in his popular book But Lane does suggest the magnificent mess start ing: 9. oy Bf 10, WB Dead 11, Wxas Qxd5 12. Bxdd Axed If you prefer this sort of game, this is a nice try. 3.3 The King’s Gambit, 2. f4 Emanuel Lasker, world champion after Steinitz, said that gambit pawns shonld always be taken if you haven't broken any opening rules. He adds, you take them, not to hang on to them, but to make your opponent waste time and energy getting the pawn back. Meanwhile, you can develop and pro- are to hit back. This is good advice, but just as in the Vienna Gam Dit, we will also look quickly at a line with ..d5,2. oy dB 3. xa 3.3.2 King’s Knight’s Gambit, 3. Now you can try the relatively unanalysed 3... Ni 6 Bs 6 Thave always liked 3B... eT ‘The Nimzoviteh counter-gambit; 3. ..., e4 is the old Falkbeer counter-gambit. Either way you got a good gambit line of your own against the King’s Gambit. But Lasker would undoubtedly play 2. ext Now White has two main ways of continuing: (a) King’s Lhop’s (b) King’s Knight's Gambit, 8. 28 3.3.1 King’s Bishop’s Gambit, 3. Bed ‘This Cumningham Variation reinforces the ancient weakness on the el-hd diagonal, aud covers the e- file. 4, Bed Now 4...., Qhd-+ isa fair try, but it’s easier to go 4... Bf 5. eb Alternatives include e836] Black can play simply [5. 0-0d5) 3... @f6 (Rule 1) Dut these should cause you no trouble. After 5. 65 \e3 6 (Rule 2) Bey Ded 6. 0-0 46 with good chances Black has an equal game 10Centre Game and; Danish Gambit, 2. d4 3.4 racy ashi SAE ahi Don't me 2 axouni, just play ,exda Now White has a choice 8. Wat (b) Danish Gambit, 3. 63 (a) Centre Game, nite ean try to transpose into the Scotch with, e, 3.4.1 Centre Game, 3. Qxd4 ZacUweak 4chb bhi 1s the Q to attack, when it is hard to pd retreat 4. Wes Ae 5. for 5... BS 6. Xd2 O-O 7. 0-0-0 Res 8. Sef d6 9. J9 a5 10. R03 Reb =+ This ¢ find a 3. eT with sti BC02 6. Qd2 d5 7. exd5 Axdb 8. light advantage to Black, according to Dxd5 We xd 1s) <.* Saba Black is ahead in development, which makes the opposite-side eastling difficult to play for White, The game is equal 3.4.2 Danish Gambit, 3. ¢3 EASWL2az Ash bbt , dxc3 (Lasker!)[Although 3. ..., Wer is an interesting way of de- lining] Now 4. Qxc3 is a sort of ‘half-Danish’, and is likely to transpose to the Goring Gambit, dealt with under the Scotch Game section below. ‘The Danish proper is 4A, Sed exb2 5, Bxbz when Black las good chances of an advantage - either securing the two bishops in an open position, or developing quickly and then keeping the pawn. If you find yourself as Black thinking about odd or cramped moves just to try and hang on to the pawn, my adviee is: let it go. When White has a genuinely dangerous lead in development, Correct technique here is to return some of the material to get your own development bbaek on track, Bey d5 6. Gxd5 Qb4+ Jor 6. -.n, OY 2. Sf xf7 8. Wedd bbe 9, Wa2 Bxd2+ 10. Dx? rai aaa, a isa level ending with rival majorities, and is as good try to win as any for Black, 7. De DGChapter 4 White plays 2. ‘The best reply, is, of course 41 . Nc6 White lias a few different tries here, the main ones being 3. b5, the Ruy Lopez 3. d4, the Seotch Game 3. ed, Giuoco Defence Italian game which can lead to the o. Here I recommend the Two Knights’ 13 Nf3 4.2 Ruy Lopez, 3. Bb5 ‘This is the most important move at master level. The ‘Spanish torture’ (Ruy Lopes was a Spanisit priest) is the main winning weapon for White and has held centre stage for hundreds of years. At junior level, though, there are a few ways to play much you trust your opponent recommends the exciting Open Morphy Defe 5. ey xed, Dut White can veer off into some really dull lines on moves 4 and 5, and if anything your two moves tempt White to play « dull line, The Open Morphy is very well known and hard to play for both sides, so I'll throws in one more alternative: the Archangel Variation, See what you think for yourself, ‘My own recommendation is the old Cordel Defence with B.., ResBobby Fischer played this a fow times in the ‘six ties, 1 game, It avoids any trouble you may have with the Exchange Variation and Lopez Four Kuights’ lines below. Let's look at how you can try and get into ‘the Open Morphy lines, and perhaps then you ean will see why I started looking at. the Cordel line, nd never had any trouble reaching a le ‘To get into the Open Morphy line you play Bey a6 hoping for 4. Bad White has an important alternative here might be played just ont of nerves. which 4.2.1 The Exchange variation 4. Bxc6 After A, Qxe6 dxe6 White can play either the old main line (a) 5. a4 or the Barendregt line (b) 5. 0-0 The move 5,2)xe5 is met by 5. the pawn, IV.B.1.a) Old main line 5. a4 Walt, regaining White is going for the better ending with this moves the hope is that all the pieces will come off, when White can create a passed pawn on the K-side with £1415 andl ed-e5-e6 while your Q-side majority is crippled. So Black should avoid too many ex- changes and play very aetively, using the two bish- ops and open Tines. 5... oxd4 6. Wadd Wadd 7. Axdd 5 8. ONS hed with equal chances. IV.B.Lb) Barendregt line 5. 0-0 Bobby Fischer revived this in the ‘seventies, and it is still being tried. What should you do? equal after 5. su f0 6. dh exdf 1. Dxdf ob 8 DbI Wxdt 9. Hx! Sof 10. f8 Reb HH. BH cf 12. Ddh 0-0-0 13. Ae Bf7 14. D/5 Bxdl+ 15. Bxdt Del 16. DeI Dos (7. Lai Ke5 18. HP ws The hook Tine is roughly(Vitolins-Romanishin 84) with at most a sm vantage for White. But In reckon at junior level the line x Wweaz aa ahi 44 Bi eny is wort 6. h3 Now ded ha punt hs! 1. hod bod 8. Dxe5 WHA 9. 14 99 wSak A ai Ez a pal ad leads to mate So White should play either 7.8 with a probable draw after 7. oy Was 8. Del 18. bx gh boxgh 9. Qxe5 hao 10, Dad Rhoe 11. Seht Sg 12. Soot Bh2y drawn 8. AXES 9. Wil WEB 10. gxP3 0-0-0 11, Bf e712. her g5 13. Das De7 14. Ogi Qh6 15. Ac4 f6 16, h4 ch 17. dd Or, the best line, 7. a3 White can get a small advantage here I think, but has to play lots of good moves. 7. oy WIG 8, Dbd2 De7 9. Hel Dgo 10. 4 2d6 11. begd hxgd 12. Qh2 xh 13. Wred Wha 14. Wohd Bxhd 15. OB Ghd 16, dxe5 [ 16. 08 J6 17. Red += dood] 16. ..., AXES IT. Dxe5 LXe5 18. 3 gb 19. se gt 5If White plays the main line with 4. Jad, ‘we continue to steer for the Open Morphy with A, DIG We a De lim See aa aa 44 A Sadly, White has soveral alternatives here, endif all your opponent knows about the Ruy Lopez ends after the third move, you may well startle White into playing one of these lines 13 Lopex Four Knights 5. d3 Andersson-Steinitz ‘There is also: 15. Wee which is no problem, but it does stop you playing your intended 5. @xe4. Instead 5. ..., ReT 6. 2x06 dxe6 7. b3 RUG 8. &b2We7 9. dd = 9. 4.2.2 Now advant, 1 ah Rgf 10. Dbd2 0-0-0 és simply level] Lopez Four Knights’ Varia- tion, 5. Ne3 x 2WUee Ek ahh 244 a A De 3 a 5 is dificult, but White has little chance of age: ,b5 6. Ab3 Be7 7. a3 is more risky: 7... b4 8. @d5 Axeswith equality: BCO2, 4.2.3 The Andersson-Steinitz line, a3 x a 2Uue F 4aa bh a A op ed ba? O-0 8, AFL bs with eq After 5, 4.2.4 The ms 6. da Black has superb development, although look a little loose. The Open juality, 0-0 we cau at last enter the Open Morphy Variation with 5... Nxe4 x eWwe = 4hi 2424 a A ah of the Open Morphy 00 DS 7. Qs db 8. dxe5 LeG 9. 8 Les x We 2been a great favourite of fighting players like Euwe and Korehnoi 10. |bdz 0-0 11. fer x a Ey a aaa a4 A 2% aga ‘Now you might even consider the Dilworth Ts ony Dx 12, 4. pf Wf line: Hf2 £613. ext xf a. as € Botvinnik has tried this, although it is clearly risky to give up a piece in such an apparently equal po- sition. ‘There are many alternatives in the Open Morphy at each point for bath players, so I have only in- dicated some of the outlines above, Look in books like BCO2 for more information, Oz, if the uum- ber of variations you soe in the books frightens you. the Archangel Variation please consi 058. QbF B17 which I disenss below But I have a feeling that most White junior play- ers won't let you play these lines, and instead will veer off with the natural-looking Exchange or Four Knights’ lines 4.2.5 Cordel Defence 3...Be5 Having seen the number of ways White can shoot off into odd lines, you can see why I would like to recommend the Cordel variation. After Boy Bed White's best try is 4. 3 Jor 4. 0-0 BgeT 5. 8 RWG 6, df exd4 7 exds 45 8. exd5 Bxd5 9. Hel+ eb = Evans-Fischer 1961) Now the only lines I could find in BCO2 started with White getting the advantage after 5. dd fied and 5. exfB ed. But Fischer's treatment was more simple: e.¢ A... DygeT 5. dd exd4 6. exd4 Bb4y 7. Bd2"bxd2+ 8. Wred2 a6 9. ad dB 10. exds Wxd5 11. De3 Web+ 12. LA Wert 13. gl 0-0 14. ds Dav 15. Belfor 15... Dao) which was soon drawn: TaL-Fischer, 1960, Fischer also had several games with the bolder line 4... DIG For example 5. dd exdd (5.2... ROO 6. 0-0 0-07 Bet exif 8. exdf 5 9. 05 Des o De pnt 2 aa 2a A drawn shortly, Unsicker-Fischer 60] 6. €5 Des 7. 0-0 [7% exdf Rb+ & Rd2 Dxd2 9. Dox d2 0-0 her 60) 10. 0-0 06 11. Sa db = Jimenes Teen 45 8. Qxdd 0-0 9, £3 Dg5 10. Lx6 bxe6 drawn Gligorie-Fischer 60, So on this evidence, the Cordel Defence is a simple way to get your pieoes oul against players who you don’t trast to enter the main lines. 4.2.6 An alternative to the Open Morphy: Archangel Variation with 5...b5 5... 56. LB LbT xX Wwe She bb4 a4 a A a a Now the best line is (c) 7. Bel, but White has been tempted to go for a quick break with either (a) 7 d4or (b) 7 eB and 8. d4 IV.B.6.a) Archangel with 7. d4 2 as This is nothing to be seared of, Tsay Oxdf 8. Axdf exdf 9. 05 Def 10. 3 dxe3 1. WAR This looks awkward, but Black can survive happily 191, 45 12 exd6 WYO 13. d7+ ast 14. F3 Wh 15. bF Wo 16. AS Wh2+ 17. BPP 0-0-0 18. fog dred 19. Wag GOS 20. Weg Bhes & EXE a 4 14. Wxf6+ DXI6 15. Qyxe8 xd 16. Bip = Black is doing fine here IV.B.6c) Main line Archangel with 7. Het 7. Bel £c5 White now plays his Plan A 8. c3d6 9. dd Abo With equality, accoring to Vlastimil Hort. IV.B6.b) Archangel with 7. 3 ‘This is more patient but not stronger 2. €38 Black can now make a mess with Toe DMO & df D059. He2 exdf 10. 64 Des 1 Bixef &xef 12. Ret d5 13. Qxds Bdé 20Black is solid and well-developed, as in many lines ‘of the Lopez, but here has posted the bishops on nich mote active squares, pointing at the White King, Black can play very actively now, castling Queen’s side and hammering down the other wing. 10. Jig5 h6 11. Ghd WaT 12. a4 0-0-0 13. axb5 axb5 14. x6 ‘This is the strongest line 4. Dad 45 15. BgIh5 16. axes [ 16. hf was essential: 16...., gxh4 17. &xhf TAG 18. 2x65 Ho 19. Wad exds 20. exds df and Black is still spuddling away wellf 16. ay hg UI. ex {6 Wg 18. Wx 93 gh 19. Dds AT 20. a5 Ddhi with an edge for Black, according to BCO2) A 6B Now White does best to try and keep things under ‘wraps with 15. ds But Black can give White some nervous moments with: 5 Dhg8 16. whi Wet 17, Bet exdd xed WM 21. 15. 18. exd4 1 19. Ded fred 20. Des Dd 22. AxbT+ HxbT= 3. d4 Scotch Game gambits ¥ ¥ eWeeaz Aaga ah4 4.3 and The old (1826) Scotch Game is 3... exdd 4, Dxdd People have recently found some new ideas in lines that bod been abandoned, but I think interest is waning again as these ideas become better known, ‘The natural move is Aes Res when White has two natural moves: 5, Q)b3 aud 5. Re3, although you must also consider 5. Dxc6 (and Phave even seen 5. 25!) a[If 5. Bx cb bxe6 6. &d3 De7 7. O-0 d5 should hold, but more accurate 5...., WY6! 6. We2 bxc6 1. Ded De7=] 4.3.1 Scotch Game with 5. Be3 5. £e3 WH 6. 3 Dee? 7. ea White has tried many moves in this position, but this Icelandic line is the most current [One alternative being 7. 8 d5 8. Sy? deg 9. 5 for 9. Qd2 Qb6 10. Dxeh Wy6 11. 0-0 Bat 12, Was 0-0 13, De5 Ded 4. RSt Rxe5 15. Be cbt= with only a small advantage to White, acconting to Gary Lane} Woon, MEI 1. DXCT# GIS 11. fed BOB 12. Q\d5 Ws 13. Alf Wed 14. 0-095 15. DAS Reb 2 Klovan-Romanishin %, with complications avour ing black (Lane) After 7. ed the equaliser used to be 7... De5 8. Be? aud 8. ..., d6/ 8. ..., Wg6 (see BCO?), Ibut that has started to creak. Will Black succeed in reiforeing the line? Karpov haas still happily played. 8...., Wa6 9. O-O a6 10. {31 0-0 11. G2 d5t? and perhaps that is OK. Tsu O-O 8. O-O LE 9, Der for 9 Qas xd 10. exdf dd tt. exds Has 12, WAS NG 13. Rie 1 &/5 14. WIS dT 15. Dds Mads x aaa¥ 2 unclear/equal, Chanller-Short 9 [White could also try 9. 63 Dad 10. se? Des HU. Sel d5 12. exd5 Rxdf 13. exdf BIS 1h Ded hxc? 15. Wxe2 D6 16. Yes Was 17 By WaT 18. a6 cx d6 19. 04 Hfe8 20. WHS Zeb 21. Bfilt Rad =/+=Polgar-Zuniga 92 9. Qe2 dG 10. &xb6 axb6 11. fF Now I ses, M0612. Dae Rxef 13. Dxck Web leaves White with a small space advantage. In the game Kasparov-Short (Linares 1991) Black tried 11... gBI? 12. £5 Deb 18. Qe2 RAT 14. 4 when Bh ony Rad! 15. 69 Bob would have been the best line. 4.3.2 Scotch Game with 5. Nb3 You must retreat with Be. BG Now White usually chases the Bishop with 6. ad a6 Gary Lane reckons this gives White good chances, Dut one move order he doesn’t consider is 7. Qed QgeT 8. hes s6t Now 9% gh4 0-0 and now 10, Soft WhS 11. Wa? dé 12. ff B96 13. 99 Dyas =+ Rodriguez-Unsicker, 1970 10, Wd? a6 11, 05 a7 12, 0-0-0 Beb 13, Bas BLx) 8. Wes ms 9. Wxe6-+ Qd7 EeWwe 4 Aa 2 Qxcb+ Dxeo 10. x aa Black has soine prospects of attack for the material; Tenclose a game in each Tine below 4.5.3 Closed variation with 4. x oWwe Acbda bbd a A a3 Aco d5 5, exd5 Dxd5 6 O-O M6 is one time when the Rule 2 shoud perhaps be broken, as Rel to follow is uncomfortable, although T don't know if Black is in any great: danger A. .... S68 of course returns you to the Giueco Pianissimo (spit) And another safe line is 4. .... S67. But the altemative Ae, BO is quite OK. The idea is: in the slow Closed Morphy Ke?) of the Ruy Lopez, Black often re-organises with ..0-, ..Rle8, BES, ...26 aud ..Bg7. Now with 4, d3, White has said that they plan to play it slow, so you might as well put the Bon g7 straight away. “4. .... 96 loses to. 5 @g5, so you play 4. ..., b6 first. The only way to take advantage of this apparent waste of time is to break open the centre with d3-<4, but this is also a loss of time (d2-d3 then d3-d4), and Black can adjust Variation ( 5. 5. 0-0 lor 5. Bye d6 6. a8 96 7. bh RG78. Bed 0-0 9. Wade kh7 10. of Qd7 11. Rol BG = Spassky-Belyausky 82 12. g5 Qxef 13. asl axed 5... d6 6. 08 g6 7. d4 Wer 8. Dba? Agr 9. Bel 0-0 10. h3 £d7 11. Df Hae’ = Nunn-Spassky 82 with equality, BCO2 304.5.4 Two Knights’ with 4. Ne3 x 2Wee = ash bb a A RXTE BXIT 6. Dred d5 o8, [5.00 Boden-Kicseritsky Gambit 5. ..., Dxe3 6. dxed Ke7, when you have no weaknesses but must defend solidly for a while. If you don't fancy this you ean always try the plan 4. ..., eI 5... O-O and 6... Qos 5.4 d5 6. dB dxed 7. Be 4 a6 with equality 31Chapter 5 Example Games 5.1 Max Lange Attack 5.1.1 Buwe - Reti (Amsterdam) 1920 46. Bel d5 7. &xd5 Was 8. . Dxdd Duds 10. Wedd 11. 17. 4 Qh8 18. Wxa8 Be5+ 19. whi Bxe2+ 20. exe? Wed 5.1.2 Estrin - Riskin (Moscow) 1963 05 2. DS DeG 3. Red AiG 4. dd exdd Axed 6. Bel ds 7. 2xd5 Wxdo |. xed Ge6 10. id2 WHS 11. 12, Wds+ wer 13. Axed fred 4, Badd | dG 15. Whe Woes 16. £4 Wha 17. & ReedDe je} be be De int ee me be 11. ..., HG 12, Bhd g5 13. Dxdd 02 G9. DMB ed 10. Dos dG 11. fF Wxdd gxh4 15. AtG+ he7 16. a QxfS Wer 13. da Aga X 2 ww @ 4 W bt a 4 a x aca v& 2 2 Des Gxeh2 15. xh2 West 16. war 17. &xcd We3s#x eye s 5.2.2 Hoffer-Unknown, 1913 5.2 Main Line Two Knights’ Defence 1. 04 0b \e6 3. Red DAG 4. ys as 5. exd5 Oi b5+ €6 7. dxe6 bed 5.2.1 Bibikov - Neishtadt (USSR) §& Wf 1946 Black chooses an unusual reply which goes badly wrong, 1 63. Red DNG 4. Og5 dS 8. ..., WHE 9. LheT 10. d3.h6 11. es 5. 6. Qb5+4 c6 7. dxc6 bxeé We7 12. G 13. WxiT+ Gas 33x a De pat 9. DXxhS d5 10. Qud5 Wh3 11. 3 De an 208 C 14. Wxd54 exds 5.3 Wilkes-Barre Variation WARNING ncut scenes of chess: ugh them late at f sensitive adults. ‘These games contain ence. Do not play night, or in the prese! 0-0-0 13. ¥ aaa Estrin-Zaitsev, 1969 da 12. 1. ef 05 2. AB Ac6 3. het ABA. Ags 5.3.1 Neikirch - Halir (Corr) 1969 on 1. ef 05 2. DB Acé 3. Led DG 4. Ags Red 5. Dx Bx+ 6. bx Dxedt 5.3.2 7. bgl aes We fk & (bt De lint & aa a whe 34 5. odT+ her 6. ads6... d6 7. c3 EB 8. dd oxdd 9. &xc6 bxe6 10, O-O dxe3 11, Axe3 h6 x oW Kk 4 4 © tb aa QPS DAT 14. 3 QxfB 15. ExfB gb 1G. BoB Deb 17. Axe dxed 18. hg? x3 19. Zhi Wes Black resigns, for if 15, d4 16, Qb5+ dexd5 17, Qyxd4, and the King will die in the centre of the arena. 5.3.4 Kunz-Hentzgen, Corr-1973 1, ed e5 2. Of3 Deb 3. Bed HB 4. Ags Reb 5. AxfT Bx f2+ 6. HfL We7 7. Axhs d5 8. exd5 Qg4 9. Le® Oxe2t 10. Wxer @d4 11. Wxf2 0-0-0 12. Hel Get 13. WET Whay 14. bh White resigned, seeing no way to stop the threats of ..Raf8 and ..g4, combined with perhaps ..cd- 3 and ...Nd3,_ Estrin was world correspondence champion, and has published a book on the Wilkes-M4+ ++» Weed Barre Vatiation! White resigns 5.3.5 Wirtz - Fahnenschmidt (Mar- 5.3.3 Estrin-Weiss,1972 1. ef 05 2. DK Ac6 3. Hed AP 4. “Ach 5. AxfT+ Gel 6. RAS Abs 7. d4 exda 8. 0-0 |bxd5 9. exd5 Le8 10, Wd3 hé 11. We6 hxgs 12. Wret+ bdG 13. exes 28 14, c4 dxe3 15. Axed burg) 1955 1. ed eb 2. AB He6 3. Sed D4. Ags 5. OAT B xt 6. Bx Dxett7. ‘hed WeT 8. dexed d5+ 9. Axd5 What 10. g4 @xed TL. Bxe6+ x - aaa ba Me... MATH 12. ed Wad+ 18. her bxe6 14. gl Sed+ 15. Bxed Wxedt 16. he What 17. Hf 0-0 18, Wer Zxir+ 19. Wel Dafs 20. d3 of xv a 4 ai a White resigns 36