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Re: 6. Be3 MacCutcheon
Reply #3 - 12/30/04 at 14:13:00
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Whoops, wrong variation. What I meant was 7.Qg4 g6! 8.a3 Bxc3 9.bxc3 Nxc3. So, instead of 7...Kf8!? why not the main line??
  
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Yes, play the alternative 9....Nxc3 10.Bd3 Nc6. With the idea of Ne7 to protect the g6 square and have the option of c5 break with little bit more preparations.
  
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Re: 6. Be3 MacCutcheon
Reply #1 - 12/30/04 at 09:25:18
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To my eyes (and in retrospect) it appears that 13... d4 is premature. Perhaps Black should finish development with 13... Kg8 first. 14. g4?! is met by 14...f4! 15. Bxf4 Qf8 16. Bd2 Ne4 (=+). 

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C12: 6. Be3 MacCutcheon
12/30/04 at 09:15:22
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6. Be3 against the Mac is becoming popular, as can be seen by two recent NIC yearbook surveys. I don't have both yearbooks myself, but I remember this game being extremely convincing for White:

[Event "EU-ch 4th"]
[Site "Istanbul"]
[Date "2003.05.30"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Goloshchapov,Alexander"]
[Black "Volkov,Sergey"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "C12"]
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Bb4 5.e5 h6 6.Be3 Ne4 7.Qg4 Kf8 8.a3 Bxc3+ 
9.bxc3 c5 10.Bd3 Nxc3 11.dxc5 Nc6 12.Nf3 f5 13.Qh5 d4 14.Bd2 Qd5 15.Bxc3 dxc3 16.Rd1 Qxc5 
17.0-0 Kg8 18.Bxf5 exf5 19.Rd6 Be6 20.Rxe6 Qf8 21.Qh3 Rd8 22.Re1 h5 23.Ng5 Nd4 24.Rd6 Qe7 
25.Qxc3 Qxg5 26.Qxd4 Kh7 27.h4 Qe7 28.Rd1 Rde8 29.e6 Rhg8 30.g3 b6 31.Qe5 Qf6 1-0

Any ideas on how to improve Black's play?
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