CLEARANCE - Understanding the Scandinavian

CLEARANCE - Understanding the ScandinavianThe appeal of the Scandinavian Defence is easy to understand: it is very forcing Black is virtually guaranteed to get his desired structure. There are no annoying Anti Scandinavians to study! But for many decades the Scandinavian was regarded with some suspicion, as Black apparently loses time recapturing on d5. Modern players have a different view. The great Danish player Bent Larsen kickstarted the revolution with his provocative assertion that it

Centralization: Kogan-Avrukh

In 1937 he tied for first through third places with the world championship contenders Grandmaster Reuben Fine and Grandmaster Paul Keres in Ostend

managed to cling on for almost another thousand years until it was eventually conquered by the Turks under their leader Mohammed II in the year AD 1453

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Part 4: Eliminating time trouble Playing with the initiative: Vallejo Pons-Areshchenko

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VOLUME 78 - Dynamic Positional Lines in the Semi Slav Defense Explained - PART 1

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He was regarded as one of the strongest chess players in the world when he lived

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