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Center Counter

96 Seiten, kartoniert, Chess Enterprises, 1992

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Two of America's top rated players present an up-to-date study of an opening which was once casually dismissed as suspect, but more recently has been played at international chess. Bent Larsen's stunning defeat of World Champion Karpov at Montreal '79 with the Center Counter focused attention on the line.
Former U.S. Champion and International Master John Grefe has teamed with 1981 U.S. Open Co-Champion Jeremy Silman to present a clear picture of the current status of theory in the Center Counter. They have made independent evaluation of the lines of play, often debunking old analysis, and offer suggestions for new approaches for the enterprising player. The Center Counter can be a significant tournament weapon beyond its recognized surprise value.

"... excellent survey of the current state of knowwith due consideration given to transpositions and unusual replies. "
British Chess Magazine

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This book is the best available on the subject. . ."
Chess Gazette



Black's basic idea in the Center Counter (also called the Scandinavian Deis to develop his pieces freely, quickly, and actively through an exchange of central pawns. The attractiveness of this idea can easily be seen when we compare the Center Counter with the other king pawn openings in which Black challenges White's king pawn with his queen pawn - the French Defense (1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5) and the Caro-Kann (1 e4 c6 2 d4 d5). In these openings. Black advances ...d5 only when he can recapture on that square with a pawn. That way he can maintain a pawn foothold in the center, and, if White exchanges, quickly equalize because of the symmetrical (or nearly symmetrical) central pawn position.
White rarely exchanges on d5 in the French, however, and Black often suffrom a cramped game, though he is not devoid of counterplay against White's pawn center. In the Caro-Kann, Black has nothing better than 3 Nc3, and finds himself with a passive, albeit solid, position. (Caro-Kann and Center Counter pawn structures are often identical.) A further drawback of the Caro-Kann is that the now superfluous move ...c6 (after 3 Nc3 dxe4) robs Black's queen knight of it's best square.
In the Center Counter, Black sidesteps the problems mentioned above but must nevertheless surmount certain obstacles before he can equalize. His main difficulties are backward development and a spatial inferiority in the center. The former results when White harrasses the piece that captures on d5 (the queen or knight) with natural developing moves. The latter is due to the fact that White can establish his queen pawn on the fourth rank while Black cannot easily challenge it with either his king pawn or queen bishop pawn. On the other hand, White's queen pawn sometimes becomes the target of a rapid counterattack. Many White players also fatally overextend their posiwith premature attacks designed to refute a supposedly inferior opening.
The moves 1 e4 d5 introduce the Center Counter. After 2 exd5 Black plays either 2...Qxd5 or 2...Nf6. The former is covered in Part One of this book, the latter in Part Two. (After 2...Nf6 3 c4 c6 4 d4 cxd5 5 Nc3 the game transposes into the Panov-Botvinnik attack in the Caro-Kann; which is not covered in this book).
The bulk of Part One was done by John Grefe, Part Two by Jeremy Silman.
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Gewicht 150 g
Hersteller Chess Enterprises
Breite 13,3 cm
Höhe 21 cm
Medium Buch
Erscheinungsjahr 1992
Autor John GrefeJeremy Silman
Sprache Englisch
Seiten 96
Einband kartoniert
08 Part One:
08 Chapter One: 1 e4 d5
08 A. 2 Nf3?!
08 B. 2 e5
08 C. 2 Nc3
08 D. exd5
09 Chapter Two: 1 e4 d5 2 exd5 Qxd5
09 A. 3 Nf3
10 B. 3 d4
13 Chapter Three: 1 e4 d5 2 exd5 Qxd5 3 Nc3 Qa5
13 A. 4 Nf3
15 B. 4 Bc4
17 Chapter Four: 1 e4 d5 2 exd5 Qxd5 3 Nc3 Qa5 4 d4
17 A. 4...e5?!
19 B. 4...Nf6 5 Nf3
22 Chapter Five: 1 e4 d5 2 exd5 Qxd5 3 Nc3 Qa5 4 d4 Nf6 5 Nf3 Bg4
22 A. 6 h3 Bxf3 7 Qxf3 c6
23 B. 6 h3 Bh5 7 g4 Bg6 8 Ne5
25 Chapter Six: 1 e4 d5 2 exd5 Qxd5 3 Nc3 Qd8 4 d4
25 A. 4...Nf6
25 B. 4...g6
26 Chapter Seven: 1 e4 d5 2 exd5 Qxd5 3 Nc3 Qd6 4 d4 Nf6
26 A. 5 Bc4
27 B. 5 Bd3
27 C. 5 Bg5
27 D. 5 Nf3

28 Illustrative Games, Part One
28 1. Casper- Mobius
29 2. Suetin - Knaak
30 3. Rohde - Seirawan
32 4. Kavalek - Larsen
34 5. Tarrasch - Mieses
35 6. Karpov - Larsen
37 7. Shamkovich - Leverett
39 8. Tal - Mascarinas
40 9. Maroczy - Mieses
40 10. Korchnoi - Reshko
41 11. Spassky - Larsen
41 12. J. Marcal - Powell
42 13. Ljubojevic - Kurajica
43 14. Psahis - Kurajica
44 15. Jansa - Talbut
44 16. Duras - Spielmann
45 17. Korsunski - Arbakov
46 18. Zuckerman - Shamkovich
46 19. Karpov - Larsen
47 20. P. Whitehead - Powell
48 21. Fischer-Addison
48 22. Fischer - Robatsch
49 23. Karpov - Lutikov

50 Part Two:
50 Chapter One: 1 e4 d5 2 exd5 Nf6 3 c4 c6 4 dxc6 Nxc6
51 A. 5 Nf3
52 B. 5 d3 e5 6 Nc3
55 Chapter Two: 1 e4 d5 2 exd5 Nf6 3 Bb5+
55 A. 3...c6
56 B. 3...Nbd7
56 C. 3...Bd7
70 Chapter Three: 1 e4 d5 2 exdS Nf6 3 d4 Nxd5
71 A. 4 Nf3
73 B. 4 c4
84 Chapter Four: 1 e4 d5 2 exd5 Nf6 3 Nc3

85 Illustrative Games, Part Two
85 1. Zentai - Dr. Tiszay
85 2. Soultanbeieff - Jerolim
86 3. Tereschtschenko - Beschan
86 4. Maroczy - Helling
86 5. DeRiviere - Dubois
87 6. Pribyl - Gipslis
87 7. Fischer - Bergraser
87 8. Lombardy - Gaprindashvili
88 9. Nedelkovic - Kozomara
88 10. Schroter - Ludwig
89 11. Padevski-Karaklaic
89 12. Emanuel Lasker - Alekhine
90 13. Zhuravlev - Shamkov
90 14. Varlamov - Schulman
90 15. Christiensen - Commons
91 16. Schaposchnikov - Redeleit
91 17. Ostermeyer - Strauss