tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6393640898640561043.post6150717273116843806..comments2024-02-24T12:16:34.475-05:00Comments on Path to Chess Mastery: Annotated Game #21: Modern Stonewall HeroChessAdminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231584333139931889noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6393640898640561043.post-56699850741870365782011-12-09T19:21:09.521-05:002011-12-09T19:21:09.521-05:00Intriguing. It turns out that playing it agianst h...Intriguing. It turns out that playing it agianst him wasn't some kind of death sentence. Not to surprising that he never, ever played it.<br /><br />One thing about 1. d4 e6 is, of course...the French! In blitz I usually like to throw the Staunton Gambit against 1. d4 f5. So black has to choose between some anti-Dutch things. The Staunton isn't really that fearsome, but I find it a good blitz weapon.Robert Pearsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01357942424904415208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6393640898640561043.post-14284978690068115512011-12-09T17:23:23.666-05:002011-12-09T17:23:23.666-05:00That's a very interesting idea. So....
There ...That's a very interesting idea. So....<br /><br />There are 38 games with Anatoly Karpov in the database vs. the Dutch. Highlights:<br /><br />-- Beat Jussupow at Linares 1989 in the Leningrad Dutch.<br />-- Beat Malaniuk in the 1989 USSR championship in the Leningrad Dutch.<br />-- Beat Nigel Short in the 1992 Linares tournament in the Stonewall (a game annotated in the "Win with the Stonewall Dutch" book)<br />-- Drew twice with Ivanchuk in Stonewall games (Tilburg 1993, Linares 1995)<br />-- Drew Malaniuk in a Leningrad Dutch in the 1995 Keres Memorial rapid tournament<br />-- Drew Spassky (!) in a Stonewall in the 1974 Candidates tournament<br />-- Lost in the 1968 U20 world championship in a Leningrad Dutch to Bo Jacobsen<br />-- Lost in the 2008 Cap d'Agde rapid tournament to Nakamura in a Leningrad Dutch<br /><br />According to the database statistics, White (always Karpov) had an average performance rating of 2690 and an actual average rating of 2728. So, while he had a strong plus score against the Dutch (+21 =13 -3, not counting an internet simul game), he actually underperformed his rating against the defense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6393640898640561043.post-72397242955273049372011-12-08T17:46:54.232-05:002011-12-08T17:46:54.232-05:00I would be very interested to see if inyour databa...I would be very interested to see if inyour database anyone EVER played the Dutch against Karpov after he started playing mostly 1. d4. I would expect perhaps one game where someone tried to shock him, but for some reason the thought makes me laugh. I do remember that sometime in the late 80s early 90s the Dutch had a big revival at the GM level. I seem to recall that N. Short and a couple other top players took it up for awhile, and I guess Artur was one of them.Robert Pearsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01357942424904415208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6393640898640561043.post-55285337031304789032011-12-08T17:37:41.128-05:002011-12-08T17:37:41.128-05:00He's had an interesting and long career with t...He's had an interesting and long career with the Dutch (not just the Stonewall variation). The database I culled for his Dutch games has 56 of them spread out from 1985 to 2007, although the last batch from 2007 were blitz or rapid games; that's to be expected, though, since he'd retired from professional tournament play. He has some excellent comments on the Dutch in the Dvoretsky book cited.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6393640898640561043.post-77914549309988246302011-12-07T18:51:13.250-05:002011-12-07T18:51:13.250-05:00That "Jussupow" is pretty good! I didn&#...That "Jussupow" is pretty good! I didn't even know he was a Dutch defender, most of the games I've ever seen of his were from the Candidates and World Cup events where he used the more solid defenses like QGD Lasker, as I recall.Robert Pearsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01357942424904415208noreply@blogger.com