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Black defensive system for the rest of your chess

172 Seiten, kartoniert, Chess Digest, 2. Auflage 1997

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INTRODUCTION

One of the curiosities of the chess openings is that it is esier to be consistent in defense than in attack. If you open 1 e4 you find that the system works best for use against the Caro-Kann, just doesn´t make much sense against the Sicilian - and may make no sense at all against 1 ...e5. The same goes for the system that a 1 d4 player likes to use against the Nimzo-Indian but not against the King´s Indian - or Benoni, or Benko, or 1...d5, etc.

But when your opponent makes the first move, you´re allowed more flexibility. It´s true that you are essentially reacting rather than acting in the center. But you can still shape the center by what you do with three key pawns (c-, d- and e-) in the first half dozen moves. And what part of compensation for having Black is that you can organize a personal system that is usable against any possible opening by White, regardless whether he is a specialist in 1 e4 or 1 d4 or 1 c4 or one of the lesser-known ideas (1 f4, 1 b3, 1 Nf3, etc.). Why is having one defensive system with similar ideas good? Because it makes your defense easier to understand and simpler to master.

Then a player begins to learn the chess openings, he experiments with many different variations--and often becomes bewildered. He may like the tactics of the King´s Indian Defense when facting 1 d4. But he may also like the solidity of the French Defense when up against 1 e4. And against the Closed Openings (1 Nf3, 1 c4, 1 g3, 1 b4, 1 b3 and 1 f4) he may end up choosing several different systems.

The danger of such a diffuse opening repertoire are subtle--but no less real. What happens when an opponten transponses from a Reti Opening (starting with 1 Nf3 and against which you like to play 1...d5) into a Queen´s Pawn Opening (with 1 d4!) once you´ve decided against fianchettoing your king bishop. How do you get into your King´s Indian (or Benoni or Nimzo-Indian, etc.) now? Transponding may be painful.

The other danger is that your repertoire may contain defenses with a range of strategic themes and tactical ideas such that the differences are distracting if not self.defeating. Ih it calls for you to play a slow semi-closed, positional game as Black against 1 d4, but a slashing tactical battle against 1 e4, you may be setting yourself up for a kind of chess schizophrenia.

The point of this book is to develop an opening system for playing the Black pieces. What we present is not just a series of random varaitions--which taken individually may be quite good--but a system that forms a cohesive whole based on common ideas.

1 e4 c6
2 d4 d5

(Diagramm)

1 d4 d5
2 c4 c6

(Diagramm)

1 Nf3 d5
2 c4 c6

(Diagramm)

The Diagrams illustrate our basic themes. Of course, we will cover other White openings (see Index), but you´ll notice that in each case Black´s central strategy involves the same pawns on the same squares.

Each of our defenses will invilve ...d5 and ...c6 and the relatively simple placement of the minor pieces. If White challenges the Black center with his own center pawns, Black will eventually simplify by exchanging off his d-pawn on e4 or c4. This will help Black liberate his remaining pieces and give him an outpost on d5. The White pawn on d4 will become a target.

In some cases, Black is best advised to fianchetto his king bishop or queen bishop. But in the main, he will post them at f5 or g4 and d6 or e7. THe knights most often will go to f6 (watching the other potential outpost, e4) and d7. The queen may got to c7 or e7 and at least one rook will eye the d-file.

Many top flight players do very well with an amoury of completely unrelated openings. But they are, as we said, top flight players. (They might even win with 1 g4!?). For the player who is still learning, we propose an opening repertoire that forms an organic whole.

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EAN 0875681662
Hersteller Chess Digest
Breite 11,3 cm
Höhe 17 cm
Medium Buch
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
Autor Andrew Soltis
Sprache Englisch
Auflage 2
ISBN-10 0875681662
Seiten 172
Einband kartoniert