Author: Timmay
Date: 09:50:01 11/13/03
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On November 13, 2003 at 11:49:46, Dan Andersson wrote: > Mighty strange ideas about the openings IMO. Both Grunfeld and the KID are >still viable openings nowhere close to being busted. Some topical lines always >fail. But In the main they are sound combative openings. > And opening fashion change when the new fresh ideas get tested OTB and proper >ways of meeting them get known rendering them excercises of memorization. Thus >neccessitating changing to new pastures until the next batch of innovation >ensues. Some openings never go out of fashion while others surface when the >conditions are right. Examples of the former would be the Slav and the Ruy while >Russian and Scotch examples of the latter. > >MvH Dan Andersson Au contraire...they are "very" close to being busted. Kasparov has tried everything in the Grunfeld, early Bg4's with b7 sacs etc. The Grunfeld Na6 variation is fine in the Nf3 and Qb3 line with an active game. However the exchange variation with cxd5 Nxd5 e4 Nxc3 bxc3 etc. is a case where black simply defends too long for it to be good. The endgames are ALL favorable for white. Kramnik has fended off Garry easily with it, Karpov beat Garry in the exchange variation. The Grunfeld exchange variation is just too initiative-retaining for white. Garry used the nice logic, "Why struggle to defend the position so long in an inferior situation, when I can draw with no trouble in the Queen's Gambit Accepted." Indeed, why? King's Indian mainline DOES indeed give white all the play in the b4 lines. Occasionally we see it in a Smirin game or a Radjabov game at the top level, but Leko beat Radjabov very easily with the Bayonett attack in their recent game. I don't know what to tell you. The theory of chess openings is drifting away from that g6 move. It appears that the more central openings are more correct. Queen's Indian with the queenside fianchetto is better than the king's indian because b6 restrains the c4 pawn whereas g6 doesn't do anything to the same effect. The Slav and the Ruy Lopez are going nowhere anytime soon. They are centrally-based openings that have the soul of chess in each of its moves.
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