By Peter Wells
The accelarated improvement of the White queen's bishop after 1 d4 Nf6 2 Bg5 was once for a few years thought of a weird and wonderful chess starting, practiced purely via a couple of "eccentric" chess gamers scattered all over the world, together with the Brazilian Octavio Trompowsky, after whom the difference was once named. Then within the Nineties, after an opportunity discovery, the younger English grandmaster, Julian Hodgson, began to play it at the united kingdom and foreign chess circuit with dramatic luck, scoring many brief wins with rushing attacking play. by means of strength of instance, the hole then observed a swift elevate in attractiveness; actually, it truly is now considered as "mainline" thought. avid gamers drawn to gaining knowledge of this movement will locate right here an intensive survey of the improvement and newest developments during this intriguing establishing, including illustrative video games. A needs to for any aggressive participant.
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L:txd2 0,c5 gives strong counterplay) 20 . . 00xb4 2 1 0-0-0 0,d5 (2 1 . 0,a2+? 22 'it'b l 0,c3+ 23 bxc3 'it'xc3 24 l:td4 is good for White) 22 'i'xd7 'iWb6 ! (22 . . f4 c5 4 13 �a5+ 5 c3 'bf6 6 d5! 43 . . �c 7?! �e l ! xd l ! 1:xd6 26 'be2 lo oks sufficient) 23 l:Id4 'bxe3 24 'be2 and White has good chances to c onsolidate his advantage. xc4 Rather a critical position for the variation. Black's compensation hardly needs describing. He can intensify pressure against e3 by means of Ii:e8, and his queens ide will normally enter the fray by means of .
20 . . 0-0 2 1 CiJd6 iLa8 22 'it'b l f6 ! g6 26 jVe2 jVc7 and Black is close to equalising, although even now this position would of course not be everybody ' s cup of tea. Moiseenko Svidler, Russia (chT) 2002. b) 14 f4 f5 ! ie2 Salov also marvels at Black ' s resilience given his developmental woes, but identifies the key point that the well protected d7 is his only weakness. So he opens the kingside, but this is also not crystal clear. 1 5 . . ixg4 0-0 1 9 jVd3 ! 'it'h8? ( 1 9 . . b5 ! if] (Salov prefers 20 CiJd4, which indeed looks reasonable although it is not yet transparent to me where the axe will fall) 20 .
B22) 1 1 e4 ! d6 has curiously enough twice arisen from the move order 3 . . d2 'ikb6 1 0 c4 �xb2 1 1 CDc3 �6 - see also Chapter 7 for more on the intervening mischief. 1 1 e4 ! makes better sense to me, particularly in the context of the 'blocking' strategy since the queen is certainly not performing great duties on b6. 1 2 f4 CDbd7 1 3 CDf3 e5 ( 1 3 . . e7? is well met by 14 e5 ! dxe5 1 5 fxe5 CDg4 1 6 l:tb I ! when the possibility of d6 basically rules out the only normal retreat for the black queen) 14 f5 !
