Sunday, May 26, 2013

Grünfeld Defense, Russian Variation, Hungarian Defense

5.Qb3 is the Russian Variation.  I am old enough to remember the "Hungarian" 7...a6!? as a wild cutting-edge idea by some Hungarian players in the 1970's.  (Wikipedia attributes its popularization to Leko, but the name was coined before Leko was born.)  As a couple repertoire books recommend this move, you should expect to face it if you play 5.Qb3 as White.

Sam Schmakel was ready (or at least ready enough) and wins a nice game.

1 comment:

Frederick Rhine said...

7...a6 was introduced by the great Hungarian world champion Alexander Alekhine in the 12th game of his world championship match against Euwe. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1013121 Alas, he lost the game, and lost the match by exactly one point, http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=54135, so you could blame his loss of the match on this game.