October 2001 - What's New
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Hi everyone! Well there's a slight South American flavour to this month's update as a result of my spending a bit of time in Venezuela. Congratulations go to Kevin Denny from Barbados who obtained an IM title in the World Championship sub-zonal tournament there. I have included 2 of his Dragon games as I have noted that Caribbean and South American games are often overlooked by mainstream databases. |
Anyway Hernandez-Denny, OCT01/01, is one of those quiet Classical Bf1 lines whilst Arruebarrena-Denny, OCT01/02, is a 9 Bc4 Yugoslav Attack, Kb1 and h4 variation. A win almost straight from my new book!
There is a real treat for you in the 9 0-0-0 variation as each of 9...d5 (Giaccio-Hoffman, OCT01/06), 9...Bd7 (Fressinet-Polzin, OCT01/05) and 9...Nxd4 (Zapata-Cabrera, OCT01/07) are featured.
Also we see a return for 6 Nd5 in Smith-Tiviakov, OCT01/04, (a line on its last legs?) and that just leaves an Accelerated Dragon encounter. In that department the notes to Spraggett-Ivanov, OCT01/03, introduce the idea of 7...Nh6 which we may or may not see more of in the future.
Although I was hoping for you guys to send in some comments, I have gone ahead with some reviews and you will find them on the Reviews page. Obviously I will continue to add to that section in time.
This month's edition has come early then (shock horror!) and I am aware that changes are in operation. I'll look forward to hopefully seeing you in November, and with my new-look site in December.
Until then
Chris
Chris Ward@ChessPublishing.com
New Games
Yugoslav 9 0-0-0
OCT01/05 That quiet king move!: Yes the cautious Kb1 is back in the spotlight as White tries to utilise it to refute another currently trendy Black line.
OCT01/06 The running king: You can run and you CAN hide appears to be the moral of this story!
OCT01/07 Things can only get better!: What else can you say when the offhand suggestion of 14...fxg6 appears to be scoring 0% !!!
Yugoslav 9 Bc4
OCT01/02 Playing it by the book; my book!: Yep Black purchases a useful textbook and an enjoyable point is soon in the bag. Give Black credit though, in this sharp Yugoslav Attack game he had clearly done his homework.
Classical
OCT01/01 Hang on a minute!: An equal looking game that appears to fairly end in a draw. That's more or less true- once you eliminate the double blunder!
Accelerated Dragon
OCT01/03 The h6-knight!: An interesting idea or a ridiculous move?
Dragon: Other lines
OCT01/04 Sticking to his guns!: But is it now time for White to be seeking a change of opening variation from this dubious pawn sac?