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kylemeister God Member Offline Posts: 4989 Location: USA Joined: 10/24/05	Re: Grunfeld 5.Bf4: NCO's recommendation vs real Reply #1 - 07/24/07 at 05:36:24	Post Tools	Print Post
	I don't personally know diddly-squat about this, but I notice that ECO (2004 edition) seems to think that 15...a6 and 15...Nh5 are better than Shirov's 15...Qe5. It gives both of them as unclear, with some further analysis/game citations for 15...a6. ECO also seems to regard 8. Nd4 and 8. e3 as equally good (and as sometimes leading to the same position).


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Smyslov_Fan God Member Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Grunfeld 5.Bf4: NCO's recommendation vs real 07/24/07 at 05:14:09	Post Tools	Print Post
	Hi, I just played a game in a tournament that went: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bf4 0-0 6.Rc1 c5 7.dc5 Be6. This line is the only one recommended in Nunn's Chess Openings and is declared to be equal. I was White and was not aware that 7....Be6 was even worth considering here. I ended up getting a playable game even though I didn't play the critical line as White (8.Nd4). I did a ChessBase search and found only a handful of games with 7....Be6. The most important game, van Wely -Shirov (Wijk aan Zee, 1996), had van Wely gaining a comfortable position but not being able to show any large advantage. White ended up winning a R+ 2ps vs R+1p ending. My question is this: Does anyone else have any experience with this line as Black, or is NCO just wrong?


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