"This system, named in recognition of Averbakh's victories with it in the 1958 USSR Championship and at Hastings 1959-60, is frequently favored by players of the white pieces who prefer queen's pawn openings and are quite happy to steer the game into a conventional King's Indian. Thus the great majority of games with the Averbakh System will commence with 1.d4 rather than 1.e4."
The Averbakh System
"This system, named in recognition of Averbakh's victories with it in the 1958 USSR Championship and at Hastings 1959-60, is frequently favored by players of the white pieces who prefer queen's pawn openings and are quite happy to steer the game into a conventional King's Indian. Thus the great majority of games with the Averbakh System will commence with 1.d4 rather than 1.e4."
---R.D. Keene & G.S. Botterill
1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.c4 d6 4.Nc3
Click on a move to choose a system
1) 4...c6
2) 4...Nc6
3) 4...Nd7
4) 4...e5
5) 4...f5
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