What's New - May 2003
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So, after questions were asked on the Forum I managed to get around to starting on the other Orthodox QGD material. Of course, if a line is not in fashion it will be covered far less on this site, but anyhow here is the first part of a Lasker's defence special! Ruslan Scherbakov |
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Lasker's Defence [D56-7]
            
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Lputian,S - Pigusov,E: Thanks to the better pawn structure White obtained a small advantage but Black held the endgame with accurate defence.
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The interesting sacrifice of Alexei Bezgovov on the next move has not found any followers. It seems that thorough analysis can prove that Black's compensation is not sufficient.
Jobava,B - Shengelia,D: Sharp complications are not common for the Lasker Defence but sometimes it may happen. Here Davit Shengelia introduced a very strong novelty in the old line, which was thought to be bad for Black, and proved that it is only White who may face problems.
Beliavsky,A - Vaganian,R: In the old line White is able to get a pawn superiority in the center and the bishop against the knight but Black can be also satisfied with his position, which is free from weaknesses. Yet, he should defend precisely as otherwise White's advantages can tell - as happened in this game.
Deep Fritz - Kramnik,V: Vladimir Kramnik has a good experience of playing the Lasker Defence with both colours. In this game he practically equalised but, as usual, Black was still under pressure and eventually blundered.
Tkachiev,V - Morovic Fernandez,I: As a rule, after ...d5xc4 White captures this pawn with the bishop but in this game he did it with the rook, trying to pressurize Black by building the Q+B battery on the b1-h7 diagonal. Yet, this approach is rather old and Black's defencive method is already well-known.
Chekhov,V - Schmidt,G: Black's main problem in the Lasker Defence is his bishop on c8, which is limited by the e6- and c6-pawns.
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Thus, Black usually chooses between the advance of one of these pawns. However, the c-pawn advance is usually played after the preliminary ...b7-b6 to get the bishop into play, as otherwise Black reveals his plans earlier than he is really ready to and makes it easier for White to plan his actions.
Sokolov,I - Timoshchenko,G: Once again White proves that the ...c6-c5 advance without a preliminary ... b7-b6 does not guarantee that Black will get his light-squared bishop into play.
Karpov,A - Yusupov,A: In this game White successfully realised all the advantages of his isolated d-pawn, which helped him to develop a great initiative.
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