Look at Geller's queen - inconceivable!
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Ivanchuk is the greatest!
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Answering the Grunfeld - Private Research
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I studied the Russian System from Schandorff and from Shankland but the only problem I have is no one plays the Grunfeld and at least on Lichess, I have only had the Grunfeld 4 times which is really annoying when you want to try out a certain line.
Jan 13, 2022
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EKAFC wrote:
I studied the Russian System from Schandorff and from Shankland but the only problem I have is no one plays the Grunfeld and at least on Lichess, I have only had the Grunfeld 4 times which is really annoying when you want to try out a certain line.
The better we will get, the more we will see Grunfeld and Benoni. I don't see much Grunfeld and Benoni either. Benoni I don't see at all, perhaps one time or two.
Shankland, I love his arguments - he has an introduction in his course, explaining why he chose to teach the Classical Sicilian and not Najdorf or Dragon, serious thinker, I'm impressed.
Solmyr1234 wrote:
The better we will get, the more we will see Grunfeld and Benoni. I don't see much Grunfeld and Benoni either. Benoni I don't see at all, perhaps one time or two.
Shankland, I love his arguments - he has an introduction in his course, explaining why he chose to teach the Classical Sicilian and not Najdorf or Dragon, serious thinker, I'm impressed.
I love Shankland. Although, some of the notation is annoying like Nb8-Nc6, I find most of his suggestions helpful with the minor exception of the QGA being I prefer 3.e4 taking the center and potentially setting up a Greek Gift Sacrifice
Jan 13, 2022
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EKAFC wrote:
Solmyr1234 wrote:
The better we will get, the more we will see Grunfeld and Benoni. I don't see much Grunfeld and Benoni either. Benoni I don't see at all, perhaps one time or two.
Shankland, I love his arguments - he has an introduction in his course, explaining why he chose to teach the Classical Sicilian and not Najdorf or Dragon, serious thinker, I'm impressed.
I love Shankland. Although, some of the notation is annoying like Nb8-Nc6, I find most of his suggestions helpful with the minor exception of the QGA being I prefer 3.e4 taking the center and potentially setting up a Greek Gift Sacrifice
That is the notation in Every course, for some strange reason.
I've switched to the Russian
(because, I'm Russian, GET IT?!)
(no, that's not why)
Grunfeld is quite rare at my range, but I've been quite successfull with the Russian. Looks like in the 1600-s people have no idea what to do against it.
Grünfeld was played 5 times in the Yekaterinburg candidates': 5 draws...
Jan 20, 2022
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You're right!
I forgot, at the start of the video of GM Svidler, he say that the GingerGM came up with a method - h4, which is so good, that Svidler is suggesting to switch to a King's Indian. For some reason, I don't think the average club player knows both a King's Indian setup, and a Grunfeld setup, so, here we go:
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Jan 20, 2022
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Okay - this one I love the most - you don't even castle - you just attack. Thank you GingerGM!
I looked at Youtube videos because I'm dumb.
I understood that they know nothing.
I went to the source:
https://www.chessable.com/short-sweet-grunfeld-defense/course/70030/
The free course about the Grunfeld, by Peter Svidler.
Unlike my research on the K.I.D, where I saw almost the whole course
* (and decided to play h3 - the Karpov System, because it fits me (more positional - slow building), and because this is what GM G. Jones said that 'we need to act quickly before we get suffocated and showed some line that I didn't like) *
Instead, I just looked at the video. so I looked for 25 min. but it's 2 hours long.
So I looked at the course in a summary, and still - what to choose?
So I went to chessgames.com to look at some games, what would Karpov and Kramnik do?
Karpov has played against Kasparov, world championship, match and rematch.
The latest is, you guessed it - the Neo-Grunfeld [New green field] from 2009, but it looks Sooo strange, so out of opening principles, I can't play this:
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessopening?eco=D72
The rest is:
Russian, Exchange, and 4.Bf4
Kramnik plays the exchange. Karpov has the most success with Russian. My character is 4.Bf4 - your d4 will be protected by e3 - making the Grunfeld bishop look funny.
Bf4:
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessopening?eco=D82
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessopening?eco=D92
Russian:
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessopening?eco=D98
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessopening?eco=D97
Exchange:
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessopening?eco=D87
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That's my research, hope you enjoyed. Let me know what you think.