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    Wi a Copyright ©1992 Andrew Solis Alright reserved under Pan American and Intemational Copyright conventions ISBN: 0:67569-203-0 This isa revised and expanded edition of Winning With the Bird Opening, by Andeew Sols (Chess Digest, Inc. 1982) No pat ofthis publication may be reproduced, tored in 4 retrial system, ar wansmited in any form, or by any means. ‘lectonic, lecrosatic, magnetic tapes mechanical photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior and curent permission from the publisher AUTHOR: Andrew Solis EDITOR: Parley Long COVER: Flaine Smit PROOFREADER: Hugh Myers FINAL PREPARATION & DIAGRAMS Ken Smith &Parey PUBLISHER: Chess Diges, Inc.®, 1601 Tantr, Dallas, Texas 715229 Send the publisher 82.00 forthe New Chess Guide that catalogs every chess book for general sale in the United States, You are given publishers, page counts notation, and eral reviews, Als included i a free Chess Improvement Course for Beginners up through Master level payers TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PART ONE. A Black Doesn't Flancheto (The Old Main Line) 144, 52 NEB, €5 38, Neb B, Dlack Pays «26 18, 52ND, <5 3.63, NIG 4 b3, 26 Clack Delays His Queen Knights Development Tf, d5 2NB, 5 33, MO 413, 06 5 Bi, Bez D. Black Delays 65 114, Nie 2 NB, e6 363, b6 43, Bo? PART TWO Modern Systems 144, d5-2NEB, NIG 3.66 A Black Fights For 65, 3..Bp B. The New York System, 3.5 The Modern Fancheto, 3.46 2 35 o ” sa WINNING WITH 16 PART THREE From’s Gambit 114,65 2 be, d6 3 exd, Buds PART FOUR Other Defenses A Black Plays The Sician 18, 05 Black Plays a King’s Indian Defense 14, Ni 2 NB, 66 ‘Black Plays Modern Defense 144, 6 2 NB, Bg? Imitation 14,6 Black Does Nothing Inthe Center 144, bo u u a 1 7 INTRODUCTION 1a For most af the 20th century the Dutch Defense as considered form of Ying posonal od.” It hada tereble reputation, ‘But in the late 1980 its fortunes rose. The Duch trcame mildly popular in grandmaster chess and all the "book refaations” af it uumed out w be filled with holes. Yet the mirror image ofthe Dutch — Bird's Opening — has enjoyed no such rehabilitation. And you have to wonder wh. There has never been a convincing plan of development for Black that solves all of his problems ater 14 Part ofthe reason fo he Bit’ ck of pop i that few masters have been wing ply the opening the way Henry Turd did Teste they employ some sot of modem, ste plan involving the bance of White's KD sale an atack on the centr wi the belp of his pawn, In this sates, White 6 WINNING WITH 1f4 usually plys his QN to 42, afler 2-4, and leaves his QR at home unt the midalogame. Bird, however, had many succeses with an older, and simpler, plan. He fanchetoed the otber bishop with b2-b3 and ‘Bh, and then used his KB more aggressively, ponting it at BS (in order to secure contol af e), ora 3, where i takes ai a the ey Kingside pint B7 We will retun Bir’ Opening tothe Henry Bird srtegy in the fallowing chapter, Well consider four responses by Black Part One — lack Doesnt Fancheto His Kings Bishop Part Two — Modern Systems ~ including ..g6 Part Three — From's Gambit Part Four — Other Defence, PART ONE, A Black Doesn't Fianchetto (The Old Main Line) 1a as 2Na Ss Bek NG This isthe most sraighforward and logeal procedure for Black but thas a mor fling, a we'll se. The plan iso play for .e5 or at some late opening or eary midlegame point and Black needs each of his three moves for the later adeance an 190 of them (preferably three) for the former. ‘Ths then san important point of origin. Because here are so many opening move-orders, our focus will be on these pins of engin rather thn on the many ways of reaching them Sufice it say that Black could have played 1.c5 and 2.-Ne6 fo 1c and 2.5 wo reach this pation and it would not have a WINNING WITH 144 changed White's intentions one ios 4 mst Despite the strength of this move, reaching a favorable versio ofthe Nimzo-ndian Defense (bt wih an extra tempo fr White beeause the colors are reversed), Black has permite it many times atthe highest levels of tournament ches. Saviely Tartakower, the Russan-bor vetoran of European chess fom 1910 tothe 1950's, uncraked his B's Opening every 0 often and had remarkable sucess with i He played 1 (4 four times at the great Kavshad tournament of 1911 — and reached thi Postion each ume. I just seems to make so mich sense for Black to play these moves because with colors reversed — inthe Dutch Defense — White plays similar moves. But there are Aierenes, ‘This is most natural response. 4.06 transpose into ‘White's scheme of things but with doubled pawns for Black and an extra tempe (5 Bxe6+, bao 6 BS and 7 BBQ) 4.421 PART ONE 9 reaches a siniar pawn srvture but with the Black pave more Tulnerable at df after 5 NeS, Bd7 6 Bxc6, Bxo6 Neco (or 5..QU5?. 6 0.0 threatening 7 Bod) Bear in mind that Black can make either of these postional blunders ata later point in the opening — and they ean be just as bad then. Se Iustrave Game No. 1 at end of this Chases Black can fight for 5, one of the Key pints of this sariaton, with 4.f6.- Bathe docen’t have enough repaver to train on that square. For example, 5b3, Nhe 6 Bb2, NIT 7 0 0, QeT (oot 705? ie, fe 9 NueSt) oA with abi ead in development and plenty of targets for White inthe soon-o-be- opened center. Another way w fight for 65 ig 4... and then aie 5 13, €6 6 Bbe (6 Brcbeh!?) the move 6..NgeT.. This enables, Black to reeapure on c6 with a Knight when necesary and reinforce his stack on eS and df, Dut it dors’ black White's (QB and thereby creates problem for Black in developing his own KB without hanging the gpawn. For instance 73, Bx 2 af, a6 9 Bao6 ch, Nxc6 10 040 leaves Black with’ major developmen ask perform before White opens the game Up ‘edhe or 1. Alb, in hi Une both payers ean preserve their Bishops but 9 Be2! Ginsiead of 9 Bxc6 ch) looks quite goad, whereas 7..DHS (instead of 7..Bxf3) is suspect (8 0-0, a6 9 Bxe6 ch, Nec6 10 d3, d4 11 ef flowed by gf or 10..f6 11 Nid and ef), ‘This takes cre ofall he (a) forcing mowes and (b) moves mended 1 counter White's strategic plan of sing and holing 5, This less a number of other moves — now and on ‘succeeding tums — that dont da much but develop plces and which are essenaly wanspostional. Under that heading fall mows wich 38187, eg BT which reaches ovr mainlines 10 ‘WINNING WITH 16 ater 5 83, M6_ 6 Bb2, et One final possibilty here ie 4..Q6, which is both forcing and directed towards a specific goal Gt einforors contol ofda), Butt als deflects the Queen from the center and encourages an tack on d5 such a8 5 off, eg, 5.26.6 Qa 5..d8 6 NeS Threatening 7 QF3, S.ndse @ Bch with a preponderance of power in the center. In the lst line it & easy to see White Improving his postion markedly by the early middle game (Gute 6 Brot, NG 7 NeS,e6 8 Ne3, NeeS 9 Be, NA? 10 8 or 6.BBS 7 NB, NIG 8 Ne5, €6 9 Qa). ‘The best Black may have w hope for afer 4..Q6.5 c& js 5.06 but White has so many altrctive means for continuing (6 NaS; 6 3; 6 Qad) that we dont have to look wo deeply ito his postion. ‘The moral ofthis analysis then is that Black's move-order has permitted White — wth 4 BLS! — to establish a bridgehead in the cemer at 05 which Black cannot challenge early in the ‘ame. Its fortis veason that moder player avoid 6 wat aller Black has eased. OF eaurse, that means he must poste PART ONE a is plans for oF 5 ah wel ee White might also get a very good game with 6 NeS and ‘he doubling of pawns on 6 but we're looking for a more thematic procedure. bat zn wee g2uars aS \eame ta a8 HO 2 08 BoLweS 2 WINNING WITH 164 Here 8..Qb6 works beuor than before because afer 6 cf there is no danger af a White Queen coming to a8, But this ‘5a relatively minor concer. Even better than 6 Bro ch, Qxc6 TINGS is 6-04, a6 7 Bao6 chy Qxe6. 8 NES! wih excellent conual play, ef, 8.-Qe7 9 BE2, ©6 10 0-0, Be7 11 Net or TINGS and siniarly 9.4610 0.0, BgT 11 Ned Black can always capture om e6 wih a pswn but that leaves his center and Qe somevhat paralyzed — and besides, it undermines the point of 5..Qb6. White continies, for cxample, inthis way: 6 ef, a6 7 Buo6 ch bao # NeS, BIS 9 Natl, Qa7 10 Ne5 swith’ a powerful control of key squares (00.-ReB 11.0.0,45 12 BaS, o6 13-43, Net 14 Qe2, Nees 15 fie, Qe7 16 Bh? and 17 of was Tanahower Jae, Karsbad 11. OF course, Black can capture on o& afer 6 of, so that White’ Bishop is threatened. But either 6..dse 7 be Gntending 8 Qa) oF 7 Bros, g62t B NYS, e6 9 BL2, By? 10 Ned is ‘excellent for White. A belated Kingide pin, 5.0 is also unsaisetory bocause of 6 Bre6 ch, bxo6. 7 h8. Then a retreat o BS dooms the bishop (® gd), and a retreat elsewhere leaves Black without compensation forthe queenide rus So T.Bui3 8 Qs, e6 9 BL2, Bd6 ix a natural continuation, after which White bis is ual pan center with locks at d8 and e4: 10-43, 0-0, 11 Nd2, ReB 12 QS, BER 13.00, NdT 14 RE, g6 15 e4 and in MeLaren-Haines, British Columbia 1977 White vas unstoppable following 15.065 16 Hel, Bg? 17 Bxg?, Kg? 18 Re2!, NG 19 ex, ex 20 Ree, No 21 Qed, Que 22 QeT ch, Ky 23 NB, oh 24 bt! 24..Rds. 25 NaS! Resign) 6 m2 66 (Once Black has played his rt three moves he has prety PART ONE 13 much given wp the possbilty of Banchetoing his KB, Well ‘onsder the fanchetoUnes in Part Two. But for the time being et’ point out that 6.7% i risky because ofthe readyrmade Kase attack White hat. The reason this i¢ 0 much stronger than the comparable attack in art Two i that White's KB rather than geting in the way — {is very usefily posted on BS. His QB is already lined up a b2 and his atack commences with 7 NeB! [Note that Black has no time for simple moves (7..Bg7? 8 Nas), I he reacts violently with 7.6 his pawns will come under atack 8 Naf, Q35 9 cf, dic ep. 10 Nxc3! And White wil workup a tric iniave i he gets an entra move to work Murey - Shekbtman Moscow Championship 1971 (14, dS 2NE,e5 363, NG 4 DSI, NIG 53, BAT “ WINNING WITH Lf 6b2, ¢7 7 Ned) 7 6 B Be6 — Bxe6 ONS RB. 10 on Preparing to easle Q-side and also encouraging the possibility of dl with an exchange on e6 followed by Ned — a Favorable bquidation 10 .. 6 Again not 10..g7 because of 11 Nec6, e612 Nia 1 ogt Bg? 12 3 NAT 18 Nes White has a wonderful concentration of power on the black squares. Black does't dave uy 13..Bac3 14 dee (14 PART ONE 1s ‘Bue3??,d8) because of his holes at (6 and 6, but 18..040 14 0.0.0 no easier to swallow, 13. a“ 1b Net White theatens 15 ead or 15 N46 ch, KB (15..Ke7 16 Nac) 16 04. The leser of several evs ie 14,.Bx08 15 Ques, ‘006 but Black’s game was no longer pleasant in any esc. “ bs 15 gh ep BM ood 17 a Qhtch 18 Qs 10 White wine materi What about an earler ..g7? Well, at move five thre would have been: 114, d5_2.NBS, c5_3 63, No6 4 Bbs, NE. 5S, p76 NeS, Bd7 7 Nac6 doubling the pawns without compensation, Now back tothe mainline fier 1f4, 45 2NB, <5 3 68, NeG 4 BBS, NIG 543, BAT 6 Db2, e6 7 00 There & no reason for White to delay this move any further and thre is no other usefl, noncommital move around, He preserves his opons of Ne3 or or ded. 6 WINNING WITH 164, Flack resigns himelf to temporary oss of «5. But the Bishop is aalable from the eT square to challenge its opposite umber ater on with BIG. Also note thatthe other natura 46, leaves Blac, vulnerable wo a forking pas advance ‘An illustration ofthat ambitious steraive in avon was ‘Tantakower «Spielmann, Vienna 1910; 7...Bd6. 8 d3, Qe7 9 (Q¢2, 0-0-0 10 Nbi2, 36 11 Bxe6, Bro6 12 g3 (Risky looking in view ofthe enomy bishops but necessary to protect the pawn and enable White t answer 12..d4 with 13 el), NeB 13 ef, {6 1d ed, exd5 15 of, 48 16 bal ‘White's method a sealing the centr while opening the Q side files is nsrctive, He handled the concang phase nea 16..g5 17 ined, Bcd 18 bg5, Re@ 19 Mach, Da 20 Nb3, Nef 21 NeSl, Hxs5 22 Fixc5, No6 23 Ros, fxgh 24 Rel, QbS 25 No5, QDS 26 Nxc6, buc6 27 Maes ch, Ka 28 Maes! Kxe6 20 Qgd ch, KI6 30 RM cb, Ke? 31 Qe6! and Black resigned aller 31..figf 32 Bra cht, Red 33 Qe? ch, Kyo 34 Ox. Black has siteratives to Qide eating but they run into oer problems, eg. 7..Bd6 8 d8, NeT 9 Dud, QuaT 10 NeS PART ONE a oF 8..0-0 9 Bre6, Bre6 10 Ne5 witha possible Net or Rg ‘coming up — more powerfully than when the Black Bishop is on a. a as ‘This the most effective way of sting up his center and bringing his QN into action, The NeB-c2 sift that is used against her Black systems isnot as ecient here Bon 00 ‘There is never any reason for Black w hurry «26 since White wil play Bre6 at some point anyway to avoid the conse quences of ..NBB, a mow that would reduce White's contrl of 15, In the old days a common situation was 8..Qe7 9 Qe2, O- 0 10 Nbd2, a6? when White emenges a tempo abead of bur main line flowing 11 Bxo6, Bxc6 12 NeS Here, for illustration, another Tanakower game went 12..R6e8?! 13 ROB! 4 empting, but Black's Bishops wil fel ‘more shot ut than Whie’s fanchewo) 14 Mh3, Rad 15 Rall, 18 ‘WINNING WITH 164 716 e4, BM 17 NAP, Bg? (all ery logical yet now Black i ‘Sead os) 18 NgS!, ReT 19 Nec6, Que6 20 e5!, NAS 21 NxhT fand White won shorly(. Alapin, Karlsbad 1911). 9 Bxe6 ‘No reason to delay any longer and give Black thoughts of 9..NBB), Oo Bxe6 Ine never particulary help for Black to recaptare with 1 pawn on c6 or permit a capture there when he doesn’t Rave pieces around it. Black’ bishops become sled and there is no ‘ountervaling benef since. ie easly stopped (usualy bye) fd the halogen ble is relatively useless An istration of how 19 work that weakened pawn structure to White's advantage vould be yet another Tariakower game (ws. Asealos, Budapest 1913), Tes worth an hour's sty 148, d5 2 €8, 66 3 ND, 65 4 23, No6 5 BDSt, NIG 6 1Bb2, Re? 7.0.0, 0.0 8 Brest bxe6 9 Ned, Qet 10 d3, 35 11 (Qed, a4 12 Naz, axb3 13 axb3, Road 14 Meal, BbT 15 gt! he want all 32 black squares under conta), RaB 16 FaaB ch, Bua8 17 45, NAT 18 NAP, Nac5 19 Bxe5, Qa5 20 el! his pus an end to any freeing advance ofthe epawn), BLT 21 QP, Ka 22 nd, BG 23 5, Bs? 24 WG, g6 25 KML, Qa 26 QU2!, Qxb2 27 Dxb2, Blo 28 Nhat, Ke8 29 Ned, Be? 30 BeB, KAT 31 Ke2 (heading for a5-b6), Ke 32 Ke, KAT 83 Ke2, KeB?! 84 Kb2, KaT 35 Ka, Ke8 (ow 35...Bd8 fal to keep White's King ou bocaute ofthe mancuver B78) 36 Ka, KAT 37 Bba!, Ke 38 Ba, KaT 39 Bho, d4 (or 39..Ba8 40 Ka5, BT 41 Nes hy Ke! 42 Bc7! and Kb) 40 et, KeB 4 «5, Ka 42 NI and [Black resigns in view of Nod and Dx. 10 Nes Re PART ONE 19 “The Bishop is worth preserving if Black can play. 8, .Na7 and fala once. Unfortunately he can't and 10..BeB has been wid rarely since famous victory by Aron Niovich ‘over Akiba Rubinstein at Semmering 1926. That game went 11 Naz, NdT_12 Ned, Qxd7 13 08, 6 14 QS but Nimrovich suggested that 12 Qe might be even stronger because it would ‘top ff and enable him to rapidly mobilize on the Kee, He gave asa sample continuation 12 Qgd, Net 13 he, Qa5 14 RE, Oba 15 ef, Be6 16 35, Qas 17 exd, BxdS 18 NAL, Qet 19 Ne3 with a clear edge. See Mlstraive game No. 2 Notice also that Black can play 11.67 above. (or 10..QeT 11 Na2, Be8 50 ast delay the White Queen's leap we. ‘This arose in another noted game, Nimzovch — Saemie ch, Karlsbad 1929, which White wo fury quickly with another shi of heavy material" 12 RB, Nd7 13 Red, g6 (13.186 14 Ned7, Bxb2"15 NAP, Bxal_ 16 Qual) 14 Qety BG 15 NAD, BeT 16 ROS, 65 17 Obs, NIG 18 Ngst ‘The plan of RS-g3 in coordination wth Qt and N42 is a fairy simple one © pay for White. Black, on the other hand, has le inthe way of mediate counterplay and his best ‘chances lie in somehow neutralizing the immediate attack and 20 [WINNING WITH 11d later making his Bishop mean something in an opened poston. With accurate play by White, this should not happen. 1 Naz NAT “The fuly of Qside countenpay for Black i shown by 11...B5 which was tried in avery madem game (Shasin ~ S. Ivanov, Leningrad 1981). Te went” 12 RDI, Nd7 (12.4 ofes «pawn thats probably best gnored wih 13 Ry3, Bal) 14 Bad fg, Moll 15 Bred, RacS) 16 NA and NAS; 14..Qe7 15, Net) 13 Wh3, NieS 14 QS! hd 15 Dre5, f6 16 Bb2, dt TPR} and now Black avoided the natural 17. KhL_ 1 Ned in favor ofa complex line tat eventually last (I7-udee. 18 Quh6, RAV 19 NIl, e420 Nee3, ead 21 QS, dxe’22 Rha) [Besides the Knight retreat wo dT, seeking wo displace the Knight on 5, Black can als retire to e8 where the Kaight covers a7. The disadvantage of L1...NeB is two-fold — it is passive ‘Snoe i allows White 0 act aggressively in the centr and it permits White to work up threats against other Kee squares bases g7. The best known game here is Nimzovich - Rose del Turco, Semmering 1926 which went 12 e4, duet! 13 de, Ii when Whit took oer the center quickly (14 Qe2, Qe? 15 Fadl, RIGS 16 a4, 06.17 Gl, exf 18 cxf, BME 19 Nga), 12 Qet (See diagram, next page) The threat to 47 is immediate (13 Nre6 and 14 Qra7 ‘mat. The natural defense, 12...B06, porns White to guiate the minor pleces into a god-Kaights-bad-Bishop middlegame wh 13 Ned, Bud (13..fxb2 14 NeB, Bral 15 Nxeo wins 43 pawn) 14 BAG, Quf6_ 15 NDS and 16 Ne5. White could aso ay 13 RPS and 14 Rg PART ONE, a Moreover; Black cannot insert the move 12.5 1 gan time and space an te Kside because ofthe immediate 13 Org? cht (13..Keg7 14 Nac6 ch and 15 Ned8). And if Back ‘srucurally protects g7 with 12.6 White proceeds with 13, INaB3 and 14 Ng, taking sim at KT, (7 and 6, 2. Nass 13 Bros BIG 14 RS. With this White cominues to attack the several K-side largess, ehiely N7-and 7- If Black tempories, such as with 1d.Qe7 15 Rall, 25 White weighs in wilh 16 Rg3 threatening 17 Og? ch, Brg 18 Reg? ch. Black may have to lay 16..Bu05 and then 17 fe, 18 ex esp, RG. 19 QxgT cht eg? 20 Fal leads toa winning, pawn-up endgame (Fischer Mecking, Palms de Mallorca 1970) ete the immediate 14. Be but then F ois the tangs, eg. 15 he, QeT 16 Qh5, h6 17 Raf, g6 18 Qeho, (Que5- 19 MUG asin Nimzovich Spielmann, New York 1927. ‘This, thea, is what happens when Black makes a very 2 WINNING WITH 164 natural star with ..c5, .-d5 and .Ne6. In the next three Sections we'll see what happens when he reso reach the same ind of opening bu by delaying one ofthese tree moves unt White has decided against BOS. ILLUSTRATIVE GAMES ‘T. Moore-Hoffiman, Wisconsin 1989 — V4, 452 NB, cS" 8 €8, Neo 4 b3, NO 5 Bh2, 06 6 BS! (White finally Ses this pin, which Black could have averted with «27-26 on any of his last thee moves), a6? 7 Bre6, buco #Ne5, D7 90.0, B46 10 Qel, 0-0 11 d3, NAT 12 Na2, Nae5 18 65, HoT “The anack plays itself, especially after: 14.058, d4? 15 Net, 16 exf6, Bxl6. 17 Nrc5, Bot 18 Net, c5 19 Nelo ch, Hol 20 Ref, Qxf6 21 RII, QdB 22 exld,exd 25 Dal Resigns PART ONE 2 No. 2 [Nimzovich-Rubinstein, Semmering 1926 — (Note the unusual move order, transposing into our main line ater 11 moves) ING, dS 2-b8, eS 3 Bb2, Ne6 4.03, NIG 5 BS, DAT 6 0.0, e6 7.43, BeT 8 Nbd2, 0.0 9 Bre6, Bros 10 Ne5, Bo 11 f4, NAT 12 Nad7, Qed? 13 ef, 1 14 OFS, BIT 15 a8, b6 16 Rael, a6 17 65, duet 18 Qued, eS 19 Red, bS 20 Rs, Kh8 21 ND, baad? (Black had to reinforce 5 with 21.46) wie £ w a q bt t & a Rac 2g lune © b> be be 22 NueSt, Qo8 (22.605 23 Que5, BIG 24 Quit) 23 Qe, Re 24 NIT ch, Qul7 25 Quad, QuS 26 Opt, BAB 27 Qesi, no. 28 Tel, Qa? 29 Re6,e& ‘30 Inot, Rb” 31 Bes, RbL ch 32 Rel, Bb6 ch 38 KI, Rael ch 34 Bel, Qat 35, Rh3, RMB 36 Be3, BoB 37 BA2, Que? 38 Buh6!, Qhl ch 39) ed, Qe2 ch. 40 3! (a stunning way wend the checks), Bb ‘ch 41 Keb, Qe2 ch 42 Redl! Resigns 4 WINNING WITH 164 ‘The last move isa good wing idea so that Black ean meet 4 RDS ch with 4B, rather than 4..N6? which leads bck into the old Main Line (A. OF cours, if Black is going to ply a6 he could start early with 3.6. ‘This woul give him fn exira tempo to eenforce 8, which 3..N( does no or example, afer 3.467 4 45, NeG 5 Bb2, as in the main tine below, Black can aid 5...NT6 (which woud transpose) in favor of Swed, But the achievement af the strategic goal of snag is not impresive inthis context. White can avid an ‘change of queens (6.dxe) with 6 e4 but he should keep the enter Hid with 6 Qo2 or 6 Bi, eg. 6 BAS, Nf 7 exd, exd 8 0-0 and now Be of Bg cam be answered by 9 Ne5 when fan exchange of knights opens up the File wih annoying conse. ‘quences for Black, If Black sve the capture on e5 (8.06. 9 Neb. Qu6) he faces problems inthe early middlegame because PART ONE, 25 of White's development and potential for opening his long tiagonal at the most inconvenient moment (10 Qe2, Be7 11 Nad and Nos) 4a White's opening almost uniformly als for this fancheto. ‘There are several other methods of plying in the center and unearthing the QB — all familar with colors reversed in the Dutch Defense — but none so convenient as thi. Remember that, inthe Dutch Black rarely has the opportunity for b6. 4m 6 lack can also put off commiting himself for anaher few roves (4.06 as covered in the net section). 5 BZ Neb Now that White has three units trained on dt twas time for Black to bring in the reinforcements, Without added power lected at that square Black is wlnerable to forcing moves such 26 ‘WINNING WITH 14 asc4, For example, 8.6 could be mot by an immediate 6 after which 6d isce a pen and 6.06 fas to ft in with [licks Kside anche. Ofcourse, Black could simply eaptre fn ef ut Gdns not partculacly ood when White can retake sith pawn (7 bxe, Bg? Ne5, 0.0.9 Be2, Nbd7 10.0.0, NueS 11 Bxes followed by BES and NeS with pressure onthe be Sle and, potently, the Kside as wel. ‘lack can reinforce din diferent manner — and one that avers the perennial problem of Ne5 by White. This alterna tive method ie Sig with the Wea of answering 6 Be2 with 6.x, before White gets a chance for 7 NeS. This is 3 Stategy sometimes used by White in related Dutch Defense positions as a means for making the Ksside safe forthe White King ‘But there sa drawback that bucomes clearer when colors ae revered, White has a frequent dilemma in the Bird's anceming his white-squared Bishop. Ihe can't use it to pin the fnemy ON, where should it go? To 43, where it subject harassment and tay bite on granite (aller ~.g6)? Or to e2, iuhore iis somewhat passive? The sequence 5..Bgt 6 Bed, [Bx solves the dilemma by giving the Bishop an excellent post a1, After 7 BxfS, Ne (not 7-26 again because 8 cf! i fnnoying) 8-43 White is preparing for e425, backed up by a Knight on 2 and Queen on 2. A good illustration of this centr play a Stabtberg- Ladin ‘Sed Championship 1928 (Lf, d5 2 03; 5 3 NEB, NIG 43, 06 5 Bb2, Bet 6 Be2, BxfB 7 Bx13, 06 8 d3, Neo) PART ONE a ‘This snot necessary, butts weful, Perhaps White was toying with the ides of gg Before acting in the center. un Naz Aiming neutralize te lng diagonal and Ltr exploit the Black squares on it (12.-BI). 12 et ae Atypical, but faulty, decision, Black s without significant counterplay afer this closing ofthe center. Black should have teed 12.16 oF 12..d30_ 13 dxe, Na to work up some activity fom his pieces. 1s est Ree 14 Qe2 NBO a WINNING WITH Le Dreaming of e8. But it can never reach the happy land because White will ut is remaining knight ate and his good Kside Bishop at ef. He wil then hae the mabings of an attack that should win matter-offacly. But before that White must ‘iminate Bla’ ast bit of ifthe Q-side expansion wih DS. Black should have kept that alive wth 14.5. 15 Bet 46 16 ast Nba aT N ods. 18 a5 Re? 19 ef Had Black captured on o4 White would have retaken with the tepawn and othervze comined atin the game. Black's Jigs occupy reasonably good squares but they play no zle at all on the Kside, ex. 19..NeB 20 Bxc3, deo 21 65, ByS 22 FS ~ or 21 g5 and RIS AS-n6/QI2W4 19 6 20 cxf xt a 8 ex 22 gx ack has a fighting chance with this move (..N) Gideon Sthiberg, who won some very nice Bird's Openings, Finishes the midlogame off very neal. 23 Bs NE 24 Qed Rho 25 Reftl —Rhd 26 (61 Regd Worse was 26..Br6 27 Qe6 ch. Now atleast Black esto play a endgame. PART ONE 2» 27 feel! Que 28 Rags Need 29° Rags cht This Uquidates leery (29..KAB 30 ROL ch, KeB 31 ReS or 20..Kh8. 30 Ragl, eB 31 ByeS). Black had wo play 29.,..Qg5 and the rest ofthis preuy game wen: 30 Rat, Qagl ch 31 Kegl, NusS 82 Naa3, Ke? 35 Nod, RAT 34 KD, KIT 35 KES, Ke6 36 hd, Re? 37 Kit, h6 38 NeS, Kd 39 KOS, KeT 40 NgG, h5 41 NU, Rl 42 Nuh5, Ral 43 NG, aS 445, of ch 5 NAS ch, RedS ch 46 Bud, 3 47 M6, 02 48 WT, e1Q 49 BQ, ON ch 50 Ke6, Quad 51 Qg7 ch, Kho 52 (QubT ch, Ka5 58 Kd, QS 54 Qe? cht, Kb 5 Qed ch and Black resigned before he was mated by 55.-Ks5 56 QeS!, d8 57 oot, 2 58 Bubs, d1Q ch 59 Bd3 mate Backio business, and 5..Ne6 (ater 14, d8 2.NEB, 5 3.63, NIG 4b3, a6 5 Dh2, Ne6) 6 Bez Now White cannot be stoped from paying Ne8 when he is ready. (Ser diagram, next page) one 6 Black can Gancheto (6...g6) to reach a psiton consid: red later in Part Two but withthe move «a6 thrown ia — not pacar useful addon. Black can wse the ».a6 move to expand on the Qs with 6.-.b5 but that seems ta be abit 0 WINNING WITH 168, premature. White can play 7a (before Black consolidates with ‘TBbT) and then 7. 0-0 leaves Black ung to complete his development without losing the pan or alowing a strong, [NeS. Black ean play 7.4 instead but that tends to negate one of the primary abjectves of -.e5, the overall Qside push with cet. Again White would be doing wel with 8 OO and later Nes. Since Black has already spent a tempo to ensure some control of e5 and df, he can also undermine White's with 6..Bet 7.040, Bat. "However, his paspecs afer 8 Bx, 6 ‘913, Bo7 lack promise hocawse Whie can attack the center with pens on lighteoloed squares, Black, without the bishop that ‘sally safeguards them, has lo ty to compensate, e.g. 10 Nd, Qa7 1 ef, diet 12 Need, Nod 13 Nd2, NaS 14 Bad, Qud5_ 15 Ned, RUB 16 Ne3, QUT 17 & and in Morgan-Bock, Memphis 1976 the White auack exploded with 17.0.0? 18 16, Blo 19 Ref! px 20 Qh5, 21 Qg5 ch, Kh. 22 QF6 ch, eB 23 RM, Kies 22 RIS! Nx ch 23 gx, 7 00 PART ONE a Now Black faces the dilemma of the BM AL d6 it promotes eS whereas ate7 itis relatively quiet. But 05 is fing to be very hard to achieve aier Ne5 by White, whereas “-BeT helps reinforce f6 in case ofan atack with Ne. ey Bet Lets see what happens afler 7..B46,. White continues with 8 Ne5 and Black cannot capture on that square ih his Jaight because it would cost a piece. He would rather not ‘capture wih his good bishop since 8...ie59 fe, NAT ean be answered with 10 d4 and 11 ef! as pawn exchanges favor the two bishops of Whit, Moreover, 7-846 8 Ne5, 0.0 isnot easy to play a 9 Net tx 10 3 fllowed by N02 and e445. Black would do beter with 8..e7 but again the placement of his queen makes 9'dd and 10 c4 tractive. (Whit also has a pleasing but more conservative plan of 9 Nacb, Que6 10 BAB flowed by 11 Bxlo aun e4/Ne3 or 10 d3 and NAB.) @ Nes ‘This apparendy unused, oF unreported, move generates some energy far White (See diagram, next page) ‘The frst pint is that a capture here will enable White to pressure d5: B...NxeS 9 fe, NAT (9..Nod slaps the kright Mier 10 d3 and 11 h8) 10-¢4, For example, 10.0.0 1d nd now 11.06 12 exd, exd 13 BD, BhT 14 Ned oF T1.ND6 12 Ne8, dee 13 Ine, QeT 14-013. Tes important to emembsr thatthe primary reson for Ie is not to open the File but o drive Blacks KN away from the center. This why NeS shouldbe played here, before Black 32 ‘WINNING WITH 164 can castle and then bring his knight to 4 more wef square (allowing » capture on 3) at e7 va 8. Since we know that 9 Nac6 isa positional threat, Black should defend c6.” He can use bishop or queen, The bishop ‘coms inconsequential but has none ofthe drawbacks of 8..Qe7 ‘The quen move misplaes that very inpartant piece and weakens contol of. For example, 8..Qe7 9 BE, 0-0 10 Nec6, Qxe6 11 e4! ix dangerous because of White's coming assault on 05 vith NeB and gg (eg. 11.-QeT 12 44 Bw Bar ‘The bishop mow makes some sense since Whit will not he eager to pve up his excellent Kang for iy and ecause the hishop is heading for e6 after an exchange of knights om his €5- Bur Black must find a square for his NO to retreat wife wants ww capture on &5. Therefore White has a tempo or two bafore he ust moot the possby of. Nae. PART ONE, 33 ‘This seeks a Ninao-Indlan pawn structure (vith eolors reversed, of course) — 4/48 and Ff, White can also play ‘more in the manner of the Dutsh Defense with 10 d4 and 1 Na2 or 11 a ‘Aier 10 of we are nearly atthe end of the opening and on the verge of dificul midleame. Black eannot ake 0m 5 rdhout losing a pave (10.-Nxe3 11 fe, Ned 12 exd and 13, 4B or 1.Nes 12 ead, BUS 13 d6!, BxN) 14 ds) No fit good for him to maw his d-pawn (10.4 U1 Nee6, Buo6. 12 Bre6, bxe 13 Qe2 intending eA/A3/NA2 with the better bishop, center and overall pawn srutre). White vould then continue with eS and Nes or some kind of Koide stack Best is the protection of 6 witha rook or queen. ‘The aadvantage of choosing the queen is that it exerts pressure on (stoping 11 Ne3 for instance) and protects b7 0 that 0 can be played ltr. In contrast, on 10.8 White can play 11 Ne and if 11 then 12 Ne2 overloading ond (12.8013 de, NeeS 14 fae, Ne 15 Bxb? or 13..0c? 14 Ned, Qn? 15 ey WINNING WITH 16 for 15 ud, ‘The hey line ig 10..Qe7 and now 1143. White wil develop his QN at d2, his Q at e2 ad his roks (pro) at dl tnd cl, He can advance in the center wih at (to exploit the postion of Black's queen by exchanging o pen the cl) or ef- 5. Or be can try flank atack (gtg3) that also acts the Black can open the dle whenever he wants with dae tout he can't do much with it sinoe White controls wo many good squares with pawns and minor pieces (L1..de 12 de, RGB 13 Na2, BoB 14 Qed followed perhaps by Nef). Note that Black finds it hard to capture on e5 now because White wil retake with his bishop, atacking the queen and discouraging [Ngo on account of Bx Black may do beter to expand on the Q-side wilh 11..b5 12 Naz, Habs but White can srk fst with 13 ef, ‘Out af the Biel's Opening White has created a moderis Yi double Gancheto stack, PART ONE, 35 c Black Delays His QN's Development 1a as 2 NB Black could have played .NE6 on the Sst oF second ‘moves. White also could have vared his move order, such as vith 2 63. But he need aot feat 2 ND, dd because after 3 c3 ‘Black eannot support his advanced pawa for long (B..c5- 4 exd, cad 5 Qad ch, No 6 ba). 3s NG 403 6 5 Bb With this ple-and-pswn configuration Black expects to Dull up slowly in the center, wih .1N6 and Bb? and either [Bd6 or .Be? in coordination vith .Qe7, Black must not try for 05 any om because he hasn't enough material rained on that square and White has plenty of reinforcements and dver- sions (ve. BbS). 36 WINNING WITH 16 5 Ret In a comparable version (wth colors reversed) of the (Queen's Indian, the bishop works out OK on d6. Here this is doutifal beeaiee Black needs his bishop to watch the f6 square incase of Net For example, 5..BA6 6 NeS, 0-0 7 BAB! creates conan dificulies for Black on the Keide, On 7..Qs7, for ‘example, 8 0.0, Nbd7 imvitas 9 Net with a that of apturing ‘ice on (6 (..Nagd 10 Quad, e5: may defend). White has ‘ven better in 9 Nxd7 because 9..Nad? permits one ofthe most, famous combinations in chess — one that was virtaly invented by Bird's Opening. It i the worishop sacrifice and here it ‘works wih 10 Buh? ch, Kuh. 11 QRS eh, KeB. 12 Bag, Keg? 13 65 ch, Kh 14 M03 and a rook check at 3. Notice that wth the bishop on 6 Black cannot pay Tob and 8..NeeS becsuse 9 xf would fork his to minor ples in the center. And note further Dat if Black atempts 10 Dock the d3-A7 diagonal with 7..Ned he euns int a number of dangers ong? which ean no longer be defended by Bet. Lasher « Hogberg, match 1954 — 7...Ned? 8 Bxed!, beet 9 Qgt, 5 ibe treat was 10 NoGl, Nec6 11. Qxa mate, 10 QsS, RG 11 NaS, FG 12 Qy3, Be7? 13 NMI, Bhé (13... SAT 14. Og? ch and 15 Quh6; 18..QRB-14 Neo ch) 4 Nah ¢h, KBB 15: Bag? chy Ke 16 No, Bxgh ch 17 hx, Noo 18 (0.0.0, QaT 19 BIG, b5 20 NeS, NxeS 21 Bed and Black resigned in dread of Nit and NY6 ch. A litle execution, which ‘ell illstrates the need to defend KIS with the bishop. ‘White can also meet 5.246 withthe old Lasker maneu- ver Nebe2-g3. An ample of that, MelegBosenis, British Columbia 1982, went 6 NeS, 0.0 7 BAB, h62 (perhaps to discourage g2-g4g5 or Duh? ch sacrifice) 8 0.0, B69 Ned, BT 10 Ng8, NbdT 11 NeS, BeT 12 NAS, NuhS 13 Qxhi Nee 14 eS, Qe8 15 Og, e516 hb wih what was soon PART ONE a inning stack, See alto Mlurative Came No, 3 at end of chapter for a quieter treatment. And, ofcourse, 5. 16 is met by 6 BRS! reaming us 0 w. 6 Nes ‘This appears stronger than the usual 6 BAS. because ‘White wants to achieve a superior knight positon before Black ge 6..NcG in. Now if Black brings his knight to c6 his pawns Wil be doubled (6.-.NOG? 7 Nxe6, bxc6 Bad fllowed by AByNazIed, I Back isto deveop his knight eacvely it must be at this square. IF Black tkes time for 6..Qe7 7 Bud, No6 he finds himself in a troubled house ar & 0.0 because 8..0-0, allons White a freehand on the Kside with 9 QP) or 9 RE. If 38 ‘WINNING WITH 14 Black delays casing (..n6) White as things todo (9 Q1; 9 Net) ‘Aso, if Black postpones any decision about his QN, he permits Whiv to much Ue 1 poston his pices for atace Kaplan - Pritchett ‘Skopje Olympiad 1972 6 om oon 7 Bast 6 Again 7..Ned & dangerous because of & Bxed, dae 9 [Ned when White cases Qe. His pion i easy playin ‘ow of Black's -pawn and the looming attack against B gt BOT 9 Neb Ifthe knight retreats to d7 there i another two bishop sacrifice (P.nNfd7_ 10 BxhT ch, Kxh7) 11 QRS ch, KB 12 Nad7 and 13 Bag?!) But the simplest would be 10 Nxa7 and T1.Qh5(9..Nf4T. 10 NT, Nxd7 11 Qh5, 612 Qh6, 16.13 Beg). And on 9..NeB there is 10 QHS, 26.11 Ned! (1.x 12'NN6 mate; 111612 gx) 10 Bret deed AL QhS Neb Now ifthe height goes to 47 White plays 12 Nef wih devastating threats of Ral: pB-h3 oF NRG ch 12 Net oS Desperation. White could have wom ukimately with dhe PART ONE 9 simple 13 Nie5. Instead he played 13 65, Bag 14 hd, BoT 15 Ne3 and the game continued: 15.521 16 exl6 ep Bx YT Nxed!, Nd! (17. -Bxb2 18 Ng5!, NO 19 Nxh6 oh) 18 Nex kh, Baf6 19 Naf ch and wins ‘Thus, Black must beable to eliminate dhe knight fom carly inthe opening 7 on ‘The point ofthis move is wo put pressure on dS after a subsequent ef and also to swing the queen 1 in coordination With an attack on h? when Black cases 1 00 Notice that 7...b6 permits 8 Ne6 and 9 NseT. Black ean prepare for this with 7..Qe7 but then NxoS has lost some of Its Impact because Whive can recapture on 3 with his bishop, thereby anacking the queen. A dangerous answer to 7..Qe7 would be gi! ‘The ci alternative 1 7..0-0 i 7..NxeS whichis best 0 WINNING WITH 14 met by 8 fet, Nd7 (9..Ne4 10 d8) 9 of. Black's light Cdursly placed in view of the atk on d5 and would be no Deter situated at b6, After 9..Nb6 10 Ne3, 44 11 Nes! or ‘de 10 Bxot, 0.011 0.0 White has a promising postion. One pat of 7.0.0 is wo recat the knight o eB so that on e7 it ean proect the threatened square much beter. On the other hand, the kaght on e8 doesnot attack 5 and therefore permits White to hock the B's diagonal with Nc. 8 BIS Nae Black does have any particularly usefilaernatives eg B.nQeT 9 gh, Nee5 10 Dre, Qos 11 g5, Net 12 Noy Ned 13 die, & 14 gaf ep, Bet 15 Qa or 11..NdT 12 xh ch, KxhT 13 QRS ch, KgB. 14 Bug! Kag? 15 Qh6 ch, KB 16 g6, NO 17 gi, Nb7-18 gpfQ) ch, NaIB 19 Rel ch, e620, BML 21 Qg5. Black should free White to decide at this point how be wil recapture on 65. 9 fre NB Agsin, 9..NaT allows 10 of wth pressure on 5. 10 00 Net 11 Nes (See diagram, next page) “There nothing to be gine by atacking the overprotc ‘ed 5. Instead, White wil play onthe Kee, with Qh3 and Ne 2246, Nsampe line would be 11.16.12 Ne, BbT_ 13 NE Threatening 14 Nh and 15. Qg3 or 14 Qh3, 6 15, NAS! [cause of this Black must be prepared wo exchange off some pees (eg 12.46 in the line abow). Perhaps the best order ‘st moves for White afer 11..b6 would be 12 Qh3 immediately PART ONE, a 0 that 12..g6 eauld be met by 13 Ne2 flowed by doubling ‘ook on the fle and poten sacrces such a8 Nftxg6 or RE. 1 Black plays 12.6 then 13 Ne2 erates the possiblity of RE or NIGH. ILLUSTRATIVE GAME, No. 3 ‘Mazuchowski-Nietman, Wisconsin 1991 — ppg NH FON BND, 26 419, Ba 5 2, NT 2 2 WINNING WITH 164 (White sl has a plan avlsing NeS bu with 2c), bo 7.0.0, BhT BNeS, QeT 9 d3, 00-0 10 e4, RdgS 11 a4, 05 12 BPS, ho. 13-Na3, KhB 14 NDS, Bh 15 Ndd, NeoS 16 fe5, NaT 17 Ne2, Qg5- 18-48, {6 19 cxd5, Bud 20 Bs, end 21 e6, NB 22 Nxbé, axbfl 23 Quis, Neo6 24 25, KhT 25 e4, Raf 26.46 ch, Ka7 27 RG, Qgd 28 OM, ded 29 3, Qed 30 Qet, Qd6 31 RAS, Qo7 ‘32 Qc6, Ribs 33 RAT, Qed 34 5 Regs. ‘This Quoun's Indian-tke begining has more lic to i Black is key 0 go to b7 in any event, 0 why not immediacy? "Tore & no reason to rush outwith the depawn if se we've seen from the previous pages, the break «di not fea Why not hoep the d-pawa at home So that No can be met by 46? ‘Of course there is a pric Black pays for his conservatism: ‘White can develop prety much as he wants 463 Bb7 5 m2 6s Equally reasonable ie 5...Be7 and 6.00 before doing anything onthe Que, ‘The sequence of moves chosen maybe the most accurate, Black wil be able to play. NoG and ater “ WINNING WITH 164 5 without harasement Notice the difeence of 1 fe 2 NE, NIG. 3 e8, €6 403, No 5 Bh, oT. With Black's QN already developed there is the prospect of BbSxc6 or NeSxe6 by White. Far example, 6 Ne5! Tooks good because 7 Nxe6 would be @ major poston accomplishment regardless of which pawn lack uses to recapture. (If Black plays 6..Qe7 50 a5 to retake wih his queen, White proceeds with 7 Bad and later BE). "Tho move 6 NeS was wie in ane recent master game in ‘his postion and it performed pereey for White: Morey Khasi, USSR. 1975 ~ 6 Ne5, Nae5 7 fc5, NaS @ ofl, Not 9 NeS, 0.0 10 a3, No6 11 Nog, 12 exd6, Bxd6 13 Qh, 14 Nxd6, Qud6 15 Be3, Ne5 16 Qh, Ngo 17 Qe3!, «5 18 0.0.0 and White ha a srong game thanks to his tw bishops. is advantage blossomed after he forced an exchange of queens with 18.7 19 hal £6 20 ex, exfd 21 U3, Quld 22 Ba, nd there fllowed 22..Be6 23 hs, Ne? 24 Rha, RIT 25 RY, Bug? 26 REI, Raft 27 PRI, BoG 28 Rt, g6 29 Res, h6 30 es resigns. 6 Bas PART ONE 45 White often cannot alford the luxury of posting his bishops on the two Keireced diagonals of 12-05 and d3-h7 ere, because ofthe absence of Black counterplay, he can 40 hat he likes with his bishops. The one at 3 not only examines the area in which Black usualy eases but also support the ef square and may enable White to play efe5. I also leaves e2 free for Whit’s Q or ON. And there's always the possibly of the two bishop sacrifice 6 ow Nob ‘The knight should be developed here and carly 50 that Nb is a postlity. I's a posbty that shou be sived — sch asin ease of 0-0 and Qel by White when c2 as well as d3 te atacked — and not used when White ean spl rely Be followed by a3. ‘Consider what happens if Black puts the aight at 7. Aller 6...BeT 7.0.0, 0.0 8 Ne3l, 45.9 Ne2, Nb? 10 Ned White has elected a useful shit of his QN to the K-side. He then has a simple atacking plan of NeS and NS, «plan dat worked most suocesflly in Emanuel Lasker's early brilaney era minor master named Bauer in Amsterdam in 1889. An approximation of the Lasker poston would be reached with 10..QeT 11 NoS, NeeS 12! Bxe5, Qo6 and now 18 NAS is murderous, eg 13 Ne 14 Bgl, Nig? 15 Qet on, a played, TS.-NehS” 14 BehT ch, Keb?” 15 Qeh5 ch, KB 16 Dxg?, Kgl 17 Qgé ch and White mates or wins prohibitive amounts ‘of material alter RES ch, ‘Black should keep his pieces more active and watch out for White's shift of peor othe Kee, 7000 Bet Although the Black King becomes a target on the Kid, 46 WINNING WITH 166 White shouldn't delay casing in favor of Que development He is nt quite ready to deci what to do on the Qeside and any

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