Author: jefkaan
Date: 04:54:05 10/21/05
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On October 20, 2005 at 14:13:11, Tony Werten wrote: >I disagree. After e4 black plays e6! which is a dead draw :) > well Tony, might well be, quite frankly, i don't know for sure of course; in principle 1..e5 looks stronger to me.. In the French the line with Nc3, eg. e4 e6 d4 d5 Nc3 often leaads to sharp play (an excellent book about this variant is written by GM Psakhis), but with proper defence i think black can hold a drawish position, for example: 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nb1c3 Ng8f6 4.Bg5 Be7! 5.e5 Nf6d7 6.h4! Bxg5 7.hxg5 Qxg5 8.Qd3 Nd7f8 9.Ng1f3 Qe7 10.O-O-O Nb8c6 and then eg. Qb5N = (in Daly-Brady, Dublin 2003 white played Nh4 and the game ended in a draw). or: 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nb1c3 Ng8f6 4.e5 Nf6d7 5.f4 c5 6.Ng1f3 Nb8c6 7.Be3 a6! 8.Qd2 cxd4! 9.Nf3d4 Bc5 10.O-O-O O-O 11.h4! Bxd4 12.Bxd4 b5 13.Be3 = , this position imho is drawish; it occurred in Vasiukov (2500)- Zaitseva(2325) which was won by white probably because his higher rating/playing ability.. Thus i prefer the Tarrasch, 3.Nbd2 ! for example: 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nb1d2 Ng8f6 4.e5 Nf6d7 5.Bd3 c5 6.c3 Nb8c6 7.Ng1e2 cxd4 8.cxd4 f6 9.Ne2f4! Nc6d4 10.Qh5 Ke7 11.exf6 Nd7f6 12.Nf4g6 hxg6 13.Qxh8 (black has sacrificed a rook but will get a strong counterattack by three black center pawns) Kf7 14.Qh4 e5 15.Nd2f3 Nd4xf3 (or e4) 16.gxf3 Bf5 17.Bxf5 gxf5 18.Bg5 Ra8c8! 19.O-O Rc8c4 20.Qh3 Qd7 21.Rf1e1N Bd6! 22.Ra1d1 Qe6 23.Qh8 d4 += this game looks similar to Timman Morozevich, 2000, which ended in a win for Timman There are of course many side lines, but with proper play white can imho always achieve a sound position. another option for black is the open Tarrasch : 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nb1d2 c5 4.exd5 exd5 5.Ng1f3 Nb8c6 6.Bb5 Bd6 7.dxc5 Bxc5 8.O-O Ng8e7 9.Nd2b3 Bd6 10.c3! O-O 11.Rf1e1 Bg4 12.h3 Bh5 13.Be2 Qc7! 14.Be3 += and then eg. a6N 15.Nf3d4 Bg6 16.Bh5 Rf8e8 17.Bxg6 hxg6 += comments are welcome, of course, Jef
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