Tarrasch shows how to play the pseudo-Tarrasch defense IN STYLE!!!

Hello everyone who finds the way to my blog page, today I am going to share with you a game, a few opening lines and puzzles based on your Chess.com rating.

Intro: Siegbert Tarrasch was a brilliant chess player and a doctor, he invented a few traps in the Ruy Lopez, so I am also going to show you a few of these traps. He's also the owner of a few opening variations which you will see if you click on this blog.

The Tarrasch rule: The Tarrasch rule means that in an endgame you place your rook behind a pawn, either to stop the passed pawn from your opponent or to promote your own. Like you see in the example here.

The Tarrasch trap against the Morphy defense: In the intro you saw that Siegbert Tarrasch also invented a few traps in the Ruy Lopez, I' m gonna show them. The traps actually did work in that time because Johannes Zukertort and Isidor Gunsberg fell for it, these were masters. 

The Tarrasch trap against the Steinitz Variation: He published an analysis of this trap and a few months later did the Austrian Chess player Georg Marco fell for it. It's also called the Dresden trap because the game against Marco was played in Dresden. I am going to show you an example.

The Tarrasch defense: This is a good variation of Queens Gambit Declined, the only downside is the isolated pawn on the d-file that white can create if they want to. Here you see the most popular variations: 

The game: In this game Siegbert Tarrasch played the Pseudo-Tarrasch defense, this variation you didn't saw in the previous example because I will show it now.

In this position it's mate in 7, try to solve it.

Puzzles:

Puzzle for players rated below 1300 rated on Chess.com: Mate in 5 moves! Good luck!

Puzzle for players rated above 1300 on Chess.com:

For the final checkmate there are two solutions, if you had the other one it's also perfect. 

Outro: I hope you learned something about Tarrasch and the traps in the Ruy Lopez, Good luck in your further chess career, if you play an OTB tournament I will believe in you. See you in my next blog.

P.S. Did you solve the puzzle, It's from a game from Philidor, Do you want too see that whole game, when there are more than 20 views I will post that one.