Rubinstein Variation and gxf6

Since odyson told me about this variation, I have found some fantastic annotated games with it, particularly ones played by Alexey Dreev. Also there is an article here on this opening. But anyway, here are the games I found

Annotated by Finkel, A

Annotated by Knaak, R

And I saved the best until last, a game annotated by the legendary WC Anand!

And btw, all of these games are not strictly Rubinstein variations, they are Burn variations, but the positions can be reached by Rubinstein move orders

It´s curious, when I re-started playing otb games, I played exclusively the rubinstein variation as black and switched to the classical french because a strong friend liked this Burn variation though he always took with the bishop.

lol did you look at the games? I just released I posted Misian - Dreev twice! Will edit when I find Anand - Dreev again

Okay it is edited now

Also I would be interested to hear some views on what black should play on move 7, because there are a lot of options. The first game pretty much lists them but here are Blacks options --

7...b6 - Most popular. Andersson played it frequently

7...f5 - Played most recently by more high rated players (Carlsen, Morozevich)

7...a6 - Has also been played by Morozevich recently. He plays this variation more frequently than f5.

7...Nd7 - Least popular option worth considering, played by Nigel Short.

Anand was crushed but was only saved by Dreev's time pressure inaccuracies.

lol. So far though in practise (blitz) I've done very poorly with this line

I believe gxf6 is the Morozevich line.

Hi all

Does anyone recognise this position I'm looking at at the moment, looking like a rubinstein/dutch. Wondering if its worth further analysis as a stand alone sub variation??

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5. 3.Nc3/d2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Be7 (Purdy mentions this in his 24hr opening repertoire book) 5.Nf3 (or c4,g3,Bd3,Bg5 (Beljan-Causevis 2012 played 5.Bg5 f5 stating its a Tarrasch) etc) f5?!

I confirm it, ccssii. In fact, I play it compulsively in blitz, and it is my main repertoire weapon against higher rated players in OTB official slow games.

I have played this variation with black for a while and I play 7.b6, although I have only played 1 rated game against it and lost I went up the exchange and had terrible time pressure.