Die Englische Verteidigung Singles Day grandmaster Gennadi Timoshchenko

grandmaster Gennadi Timoshchenko

White has interesting choices between strategic or more aggressive approaches

Belarusian grandmaster Sergey Kasparov examines the strengths

at Euwe's seventh sense for dynamic transformations

and then losing

Die Englische Verteidigung Singles Day grandmaster Gennadi TimoshchenkoIn the 1970s, a group of strong English players (especially Miles, Speelman, Keene and later Short) developed a slightly unusual opening starting after the moves 1. d4 e6 2. c4 b6. Just like in the Grnfeld or Alekhine Defense, Black gives up the center. But instead of provoking pawn advances by moving the knights early, he wants to bring his bishops into play first (most often on the b7 and b4 squares). This approach contradicts the orthodox