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Status of the Sokolsky attack in the Gruenfeld. (Read 3549 times)

JonHecht Senior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 345 Joined: 01/17/07	Re: Status of the Sokolsky attack in the Gruenfeld Reply #4 - 01/17/07 at 10:00:26	Post Tools	Print Post
	I own Bc4 Gruenfeld, for some reason or another... maybe I didn't think it would be just a tome of theory which I will never read... anyway, the author states that it is no more than a draw, most likely, but that black has a helluva difficult time if he doesn't know the theory in detail.


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IMJohnCox God Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 1551 Location: London Joined: 01/28/06 Gender:	Re: Status of the Sokolsky attack in the Gruenfeld Reply #3 - 01/02/07 at 13:05:20	Post Tools	Print Post
	Too many 30-move forced draws at White's option. Far as I know White's recent attempts have been neutralised to that after some recent troubles. van Wely's 16 Kh1 (was it? Or Qd4?) with which he crushed Sutovsky also seems to have been caught up with. Ball back in White's court, in other words, but a practical problem for Black as a repertoire choice.


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Feldman YaBB Newbies Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 5 Joined: 12/30/06	Re: Status of the Sokolsky attack in the Gruenfeld Reply #2 - 01/02/07 at 00:47:35	Post Tools	Print Post
	Thanks for the explanation and the pointer


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ANDREW BRETT God Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 622 Joined: 07/07/06	Re: Status of the Sokolsky attack in the Gruenfeld Reply #1 - 12/30/06 at 14:59:01	Post Tools	Print Post
	I'd suggest you have a look at Sakaev's Grunfeld books where he devotes lots of analysis. Also Van Wely still plays this for White which is worth noting for the fact that about 6 years ago he played this opening for Black. I suspect theoretically Black is just about surviving. But it's the extent of theory that has to be known which has caused a downgrade in this line's popularity. Andrew


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Feldman YaBB Newbies Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 5 Joined: 12/30/06	Status of the Sokolsky attack in the Gruenfeld. 12/30/06 at 13:41:51	Post Tools	Print Post
	What is the status of this line in the exchange variation ? (14.d5 with the exchange sac) In Aagaards "Starting out..." it was said that black had troubles in this line, and looking at a public available database, it seems this line is played very rarely these days. Thanks in advance.


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