This position is from the 11th match game between Rashid Nezhmetdinov and one of the greatest attacking chess players, Mikenas, played in Kazan in 1948. In this position White has compensation for the piece mainly because of the exposed blac...
In this position Black has two main concerns. 1) White is about to play Bg2 and e2-e4, and this might be annoying. 2) Black needs to complete development. Timman, a truly creative player does not pay sufficient attention to these points, whi...
This opening is knows as the Latvian Gambit. It was mainly developed by K. Behting and also by a group of Latvian chess players whose participation reflected by the name of the opening. 3.Nxe5 Qf6 The principal move, which drawback is that th...
In this position it does not take a long time to work out that Black has the advantage. The a5-pawn is a potential danger, the doubled pawns are obviously weaknesses and Black leads in development. Nevertheless there are two things that I wou...
We start our study with the variations that are not too much attended by the opening manuals with this familiar to every chess player position. Of course the principal continuations here are 2...Nc6 and 2...Nf6, but there also exist other ways ...
