Rob and I and the Tarrasch
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I met up with Rob last night and we played a quick game in the Budapest and he was unfamiliar with it and I as able to get a piece up with a missed tactic. To his defense the man was tired out and his wife was going to have a baby the next day so... I don't take much stock in the game. But surprise someone with something new and they might not see what is coming! It is nice to be on the other side of that.
We decided to start looking at our defense to 1. d4 together since that is an area we can find common ground since I don't like anything that much that I am playing. So we started by looking at what he plays.
1.) d4 d6 2.) c4 d5 3.) Nc3 c5!?
The Tarrasch defense. My initial thought was that this is going to saddle black with an ICP position but we started looking at it. I had a hard time finding the line in NCO and didn't have my MCO with me so we looked at it together.
We came up with cxd and then cxd and spent quite some time trying to determine the right sequence of moves for White and finally arrived at Qa4+ as the key... after toying around with Qxd4 and seeing that checking makes things easier. Anyways the line ends up with Black a pawn down but ahead in development. I will look at the main lines another day specifically the Rubinstein variation.
Here is the analysis I worked out last night
A few example games in that line
I met up with Rob last night and we played a quick game in the Budapest and he was unfamiliar with it and I as able to get a piece up with a missed tactic. To his defense the man was tired out and his wife was going to have a baby the next day so... I don't take much stock in the game. But surprise someone with something new and they might not see what is coming! It is nice to be on the other side of that.
We decided to start looking at our defense to 1. d4 together since that is an area we can find common ground since I don't like anything that much that I am playing. So we started by looking at what he plays.
1.) d4 d6 2.) c4 d5 3.) Nc3 c5!?
The Tarrasch defense. My initial thought was that this is going to saddle black with an ICP position but we started looking at it. I had a hard time finding the line in NCO and didn't have my MCO with me so we looked at it together.
We came up with cxd and then cxd and spent quite some time trying to determine the right sequence of moves for White and finally arrived at Qa4+ as the key... after toying around with Qxd4 and seeing that checking makes things easier. Anyways the line ends up with Black a pawn down but ahead in development. I will look at the main lines another day specifically the Rubinstein variation.
Here is the analysis I worked out last night
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1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c5 4. cxd5 cxd4 5. Qa4+ ( 5. Qxd4 Nc6 6. Qd1 ( 6. Qa4 ) 6... exd5 7. Qxd5 Be6 ( 7... Qxd5 8. Nxd5 Bd6 9. Bf4 Bxf4 10. Nxf4 += ) 8. Qxd8+ Rxd8 9. e3 ( 9. g3!? ) ( 9. Bd2!? ) 9... Nb4 10. Bb5+ Ke7 11. Kf1 ( 11. Ba4 = Looks playable but rates as = where Kf1 still is += ) 11... g5 += ) 5... Bd7 6. Qxd4 exd5 7. Qxd5 Nc6 8. Nf3 Nf6 9. Qd1 ( 9. Qd3 += Given by Reubin Fine in The Ideas Behind The Chess Opening. He says that black does not have enough for the pawn. ) 9... Bc5 10. e3 Qe7 11. Be2 O-O-O 12. O-O g5 += mostly from from MCO-13 *
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A few example games in that line
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1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c5 4. cxd5 cxd4 5. Qxd4 Nc6 6. Qd1 exd5 7. Qxd5 Bd7 8. Nf3 Nf6 9. Qd1 Bc5 10. e3 Qe7 11. Be2 O-O-O 12. O-O g5 13. Qc2 Kb8 14. a3 h5 15. b4 Bd6 16. Nb5 g4 17. Nh4 Be5 18. Bb2 Rc8 19. Qb3 Ne4 20. Bxe5+ Nxe5 21. g3 Bxb5 22. Bxb5 Nd2 23. Qb2 Nef3+ 24. Nxf3 Nxf3+ 25. Kh1 Qe4 26. Qb1 Rc2 0-1
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