![]() It creates very interesting battles where the player with the better understanding of positional and endgame play wins. The Berlin is known to lead to a draw by force. Either black's king is uncastled because he tries to fianchetto his bishop M Geenen vs A Johannes, 1999 Ganguly vs H Nezad, 2010 Either black is quite passive in a symmetrical position where his passive knight on g6 fails to put any pressure on e4 and allow Nc3-d5 Psakhis vs I Sokolov, 1993 I'd recommend not to close up the center as it would give black kind of a King's Indian type of position and that's what he wants. White should just build up the center and keep pressurizing his opponent as in Kupreichik vs G Ciolac, 1996. If black plays the, follow Anand steps Anand vs K Pulkkinen, 1986 If black takes on e4, see Alekhine vs E Baasch, 1912. White should take the center under control via this move. Svidler vs Aronian, 2010 is the kind of game one should hope to play as white, with the correct exchanges, and masterful usage of the space advantage. ![]() Here I would recommend the simple and strong d3 move. Vachier-Lagrave vs D Howell, 2009 and Geller vs Szabo, 1973 model games for white White has a big space advantage on the kingside and black's development looks akward in every line. Against both moves white should play Bc4. See Anand vs G Vescovi, 2004 with wonderful logical play from the World Champion.īasically they are two lines for black 5. No one really plays this defense anymore, because it's too passive and black has almost no chance of winning. May this repertoire serve you well in your own games, Our model players for the collection will be Vasily Smyslov, Efim Geller, Nigel Short, Michael Adams, Paul Keres, Anatoly Karpov and Viswanathan Anand, seven extremely strong positional, classical players. I will try to give one or two games for each of black's possible response, with a quick written overview of the plan. The more important thing is that my repertoire has to be and. I like to keep it simple when I have the white pieces. Īs a general rule, I tried to avoid all unclear lines, where sacrifices are needed to keep the balance, or where the white king is in danger. However, I think it's still possible to play, for example, the Spanish, without knowing too much theory, if one chooses his lines correctly. ![]() But I don't want to enter sharp ultra-theorical lines where theory is getting bigger and bigger, like the Slav, or the English attack. I'm a big advocate of playing the main lines. However, it's often not today's mainlines, but old mainlines, or rarer moves that are anyway completely playable, even at world championship level. The lines chosen tend to be mainlines and not offbeat moves. The following is based mainly on my researches using the opening explorer and some other internet or book sources. ![]()
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