What do you think about the Grunfeld Defense?

I used to play it a lot... I won most of my games with it on either side.  It fit my style, very tactical opening choice.

Thanks, Im going for tactical.

I have used the Grunfeld in my weekend tournament.. 

Here is the game

I was expecting a hard fought game in the center but he got greedy and took my c5 pawn, and then followed that inaccuracy with a sloppy move trying to keep the pawn.

Thankfully I did not get punished for my Nd7 move, in the database it was only played once, but luckily it was an easy game for me.

What do you mean?

I know nothing about it.

Just since 6 months I am playing Queens pawn game and m favourite variation is Grunfeld defense and you know I just love it like anything and as Jamiekolwaski said it is very interesting  and for both the players and as for black the fianchetto structure and for white the pawn structure ,something is their to learn from every move and I just love it .

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                                                                                  , shravani_patil

Nonsense, as usual.

"Grunfeld Queen Exchange Balanced" results in almost 50-50. White leads Black by small positional advantage (1%?) - in my opinion as two rooks are now free to move sideways.

The above game may have small variations like this. Here Black makes huge blunder. Black's Queen is lost (The Queen captures Bb4 and then Rook captures the Queen.)

Actually engine shows that in move 11. Black Queen should be positioned at Qh5 instead of Qa3. From the above game it is easy to understand that if White goes for wrong calculation then Black leads serious advantage. How? Here it is. 

Now a small variation in the game shows how Black loses second most valuable piece i.e. Queen (first and foremost is obviously the King) again. King shifts to 8th room (huge blunder). Watch the game below. 

busted probably

I recently witnessed somebody ask GM Alejandro Rodriguez "If you could be second for any player of your choosing, who would you pick?"

Alex responded "Svidler! I would only need to know one opening! The Gruenfeld!"

Then he went on to do a mock conversation between himself and Svidler:  "Gruenfeld still sound? Yep! Okay, see you tomorrow!"

The Grunfeld is a tactical opening that alerts your opponent from the onset that you are ready to fight. I used to play to it often but I would run into the Russian System: 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Qb3, which i believe is better  for white according to engines and my personal experiences. I would recommend studying games played by Peter Svidler, the foremost expert on the Grunfeld. 

The Staunton Gambit is certainly not easy to face. That's why, on the rare occasions when I want to play the Dutch, I use a different move order: 1. d4 e6 2. c4 f5. Another nice thing about 1...e6 is that it leaves open the possibility of playing, for example, the QGD, English Defense, or Nimzo/Bogo/QID complex. Obviously, you have to be prepared to play the French if White plays 2. e4.

Hello chess.com community, which book to read for the Grunfeld Defence, (actually I am not rated yet because I didn't join any rated tournament in my chess career,🙁 I am in C Class an intermediate tournament player.) So please help,

Thanks,

Pratik Tambi, 05/04/21