The Ultimate Anti-Grunfeld A Samisch Repertoire (2013)

233 Pages·2016·3.12 MB·English

by  Svetushkin Dmitry.

The Ultimate Anti-Grünfeld
A White repertoire with 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3
Dmitry Svetushkin
Chess Stars
www.chess-stars.com
Current Theory and Practice Series
The Ultimate Anti-Grünfeld.
A White repertoire with 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3

Translation and editing by Semko Semkov
Cover design by Kalojan Nachev
Copyright © 2013 by Dmitry Svetushkin and Chess Stars
Printed in Bulgaria
ISBN: 978-954-8782-94-4
Contents
Foreword 5
Introduction 6
Part 1. Anti-Grünfeld I
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3 d5 10
Part 2. Anti-Grünfeld II
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3 Nc6, rare lines 64
Part 3. Benoni/Volga Deviations
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3 c5 4.d5 86
Part 4. King’s Indian with ...c5
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nc3 0-0 6.Be3 c5 110
Part 5. The Panno Variation
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nc3 0-0 6.Be3 Nc6 146
Part 6. Main Line Panno Variation
3.f3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nc3 0-0 6.Be3 Nc6 7.Nge2 a6 8.Qd2 Rb8 166
Part 7. Extended Black Fianchetto
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nc3 c6 6.Be3 a6 184
Part 8. The Classical Main Line
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nc3 0-0 6.Be3 e5 7.Nge2 202
Part 9. Alternative Move Orders
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Ne2 226
Index of Variations 231
Part 1
Bibliography
Books
Understanding the King’s Indian, M. Golubev, Gambit 2006
The King’s Indian, Victor Bologan, Chess Stars 2009
Playing 1.d4 - The Indian Defences, Lars Schandorff, Quality Chess 2012
Chess Evolution - January 2012, Arkadij Naiditsch, Chess Evolution 2012

Electronic/Periodicals
Mega Database, Chess Base
Chess Informant, Sahovsky Informator
New in Chess Yearbook, Interchess
Chess Today
Internet resources
The Week In Chess (chesscenter.com)
10 Days (Chessmix.com)
Internet Chess Club (chessclub.com)
ChessPublishing.com forum
Chesspro.ru
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Introduction
Foreword
I started playing the King’s Indian Nowadays the 3.f3 system has
in my childhood. Bronstein’s clas- grown tremendously to become
sic, Zurich International Chess one of the most popular weap-
Tournament 1953, had a strong im- ons against the Grünfeld. Like any
pact on me so I adopted this sharp fashionable opening, it has become
opening for the Black side. I re- utmost concrete, with tons of bran-
member to have suffered many hor- ches going deep into the endgame.
rible debacles against the Sämish, The Sämish itself is more position-
especially by the hands of my first al. One can play it on understand-
coach Boris Nevednichy (GM V. ing. You should learn plans rather
Nevednichy’s father). Only when than moves.
I turned 20 did I finally decide to I have supplied enough annotat-
master 1.d4 for White. Dreev’s ex- ed games in the “Complete Games”
emplary wins inspired me to test sections, and typical examples of
the Sämish. It seemed to suit my the main motifs in the “Main Ideas”
active positional style. chapters. Nearly in most main lines
At first I had not a full grasp of I have developed new plans (rather
this system. I thought White was than novelties) which should put
obliged to mate the opponent. One you ahead of your opponents in the
of the most important principles of OTB battles.
the Sämish dawned on me much The book includes games played
later when I understood that White before July 31, 2013.
had to play all over the board!
I would like to express my deep
The next stage was to try 3.f3 gratitude to:
against the Grünfeld. I’d like to re-
My grandfather who taught me
mind you that in 2000 the Grünfeld
to play chess;
was far behind its current popular-
ity while 3.f3 was still a fairly young My first and main coaches Rai-
system. The computers were not so sa and Boris Nevednichy;
powerful in those times so it was
My editor Semko Semkov for
very interesting to analyse all those
his help and valuable ideas.
extremely complex lines over the
board. It was a sea of opportunities Dmitry Svetushkin
for both sides. July 31, 2013
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Introduction
Introduction
By playing 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3, deve lopment with ...Bg7 and ...e5.
White kills three birds with one Seve ral months later world cham-
shot. pion Alekhine promoted 3.f3 as a
XIIIIIIIIY weapon of choice in the match for
9rsnlwqkvl-tr0 the title against Bogoljubow. In the
9zppzppzpp+p0 first encounter the challenger opted
9-+-+-snp+0 for 3...Bg7, but later in the match he
9+-+-+-+-0 took up the gauntlet with 3...d5 and
9-+PzP-+-+0 got a cramped position after 4.cxd5
9+-+-+P+-0 Nxd5 5.e4 Nb6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.Nc3
9PzP-+P+PzP0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne5 9.Bd4
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First of all, this is a natural way 9zppzp-zppvlp0
of seizing space. Opening theory 9-sn-+-+p+0
knows a similar approach – 1.Nf3 9+-+Psn-+-0
d5 2.b3 c5 when 3.Bb2 is consi- 9-+-vLP+-+0
dered inaccurate due to 3...f6!. 9+-sN-+P+-0
The second merit of 3.f3 is that 9PzP-+-+PzP0
it throws the Grünfeld fans out of 9tR-+QmKLsNR0
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The third fine point is that it 9...f6?! 10.f4 Nf7 11.a4 e5
allows White to delay the develop- 12.dxe6 Bxe6 13.a5 Nd7 14.a6 b6
ment of his queen’s knight. While 15.Bb5 Qe7 16.Nge2.
in most systems its natural stand is
on c3, against ...c5 plans it may go In the following decades, the
to d2 or a3, leaving c3 free for the mainline Grünfeld had been un-
other knight. der strong pressure and it made no
sense to avoid it. Only in the 80ies
3.f3 has debuted at top level was the interest in 3.f3 revived, but
with the game Nimzowitsch-Tar- White was not too successful in the
takower, Karlsbad 26.08.1929, variation:
where Black simply ignored it by 3...d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nb6
following classical King’s Indian 6.Nc3 Bg7 7.Be3 0-0
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Introduction
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veterans of this modern line. Look
9rsnlwq-trk+0
at the following game:
9zppzp-zppvlp0
9-sn-+-+p+0
Svetushkin-Lupulescu
9+-+-+-+-0
Bucharest 2003
9-+-zPP+-+0
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3 d5 4.cxd5
9+-sN-vLP+-0
Nxd5 5.e4 Nb6 6.Nc3 Bg7 7.Be3
9PzP-+-+PzP0
0-0 8.Qd2 Nc6 9.0-0-0 f5 10.h4
9tR-+QmKLsNR0
fxe4 11.h5 e5 12.d5 Nd4 13.hxg6
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hxg6 14.fxe4 c6 15.Nf3 Nxf3 16.gxf3
Most games featured 8.f4 Nc6
cxd5 17.exd5 Rxf3 18.Kb1 Bf5+
9.d5 Na5 or 9...Nb8 with sharp, but
19.Ka1 Qd7 20.d6
balanced play.
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Alekhine’s intuition hinted to
9r+-+-+k+0
him the best continuation:
9zpp+q+-vl-0
8.Qd2! against the same Bo-
9-sn-zP-+p+0
goljubow in Bled 1931, but he drew
9+-+-zpl+-0
this game and the move had not
9-+-+-+-+0
caught up.
9+-sN-vLr+-0
Another world champion, Kram-
9PzP-wQ-+-+0
nik, put his faith in 8.Qd2 against
9mK-+R+L+R0
Shirov in the candidates match for
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the world title in 1998: 8.Qd2 e5
I combine play on the kingside
9.d5 c6 10.h4 h5, but then his play
with the power of the passed d-
was hesitant and he went on to lose.
pawn. White is on top and I went
Thus the burst of popularity of the
on to win after 20...e4 21.Be2 Rg3
f3-system was delayed for another
22.Bd4 e3 23.Qe1 Rg2 24.Qh4 Rc8
decade.
25.Bb5 Rc6 26.Bxc6 bxc6 27.Bxg7
Eventually, White has devel- Qxg7 28.Qd8+ Kf7 29.Qe7+ 1-0.
oped completely new schemes and This game reveals the main fea-
has fine-tuned the move orders. tures of the f3-system: a clear plan
This turned 3.f3 in the last 5-6 for a kingside attack with h4-h5,
years from a side line into the most backed by a strong centre. Try it
challenging way of combatting the and you’ll not risk to fall asleep dur-
Indian defences. After Anand has ing the game. The opposite castles
adopted it and used in a number are always a herald of sharp fight.
of games, including the world title Of course, Black can choose the
match against Gelfand in 2012, 3.f3 King’s Indian. Then the Sämish is
has become one of the hottest sys- probably the most straightforward
tems, the ultimate anti-Grünfeld. and natural answer. White’s result
in this particular branch (without
I have been playing 3.f3 for ten 3.Nc3) is above 60%! Higher than
years so I can claim to be one of the any other system against the K.I.D.
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Introduction
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1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3 d5
Part 1
Anti-Grünfeld I
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3 d5
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