Lev,
Perhaps you can post some of your 3 minute games in this 6.a3 line? With so many options available to black, it's hard to know where to direct my attention for refutation. Just to humor me, I'm looking at 6...g6 as a good move since it strikes me that ...c6 should be more useful than a3 in the fianchetto lines. So, perhaps you could post some games or analysis in the 6.a3 g6 line?

flaviddude wrote on 08/21/07 at 01:35:46:


I suggest you not bother, since no amount of demonstration of Black's winning chances will satisfy the BDG ideologues here.

6. a3 looks an improvement. I cannot show you games yet as correspondence games are still in progress.

I have seen the games you show with g4. I disagree with you as to which is better out of Be3 or Bd3.

When I get time I shall post another improvement for white in the BDG. I lost a game to Reverend Tim Sawyer no less. Two months later a copy of Kaissiber arrived with a big improvement for white. Furthermore I have a further refinement on the Kaissiber analysis. This line is really scary. I suggest that anyone who plays the BDG should update their archives with analysis from this site.

Mr. Flude, you are wrong on both counts. Let me give a couple of lines.

Zilbermints (1900) - Mark Gerstl (2139)
Marshall Chess Club Under 2200
March 2, 1993

[color=#000000][/color] 1 d4 d5 2 e4 de4 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 f3 e3?! 5 Bxe3 e6 (5...Bf5 is dealt with later) 6 Nge2  Be7  7 Ng3 Nbd7  8 Bd3 a6  9 Qd2 00  10 h4!
c5  11 000! Qa5  

Otherwise White plays 12 dxc5 Nxc5  13 Bxc5  Bxc5 14 Bxh7+ winning the exchange.

12 Kb1

Threatening 13 Nd5!

12...cxd4  13 Bxd4 e5?

The mistake of the game. The e-pawn should not moved, as it controls the vital f5 square.  Now White administers the attack.

14 Nf5! Bb4

14...Bd8 offers the best resistance.

15 Qg5!  g6?

This move seals Black's doom. Better was 15...Ne8  16 a3! and now:
16...Bc5! (16...ed4 17 axb4 Qxb4 18 Nd5 Qa4  19 Nxd4)  17 Bxc5! Nxc5         18 Ne7+  Kh8  19 Qxe5;  or 16...Bxc3 17 Bxc3 Qb6  18 Ne7+ Kh8  19 Bxh7! +-)

16 h5!

The decisive breakthrough.

16...exd4 17 hxg6  fxg6  18 Rxh7!

Annihilation. There is no defense.

18...Ne5  19 Rg7+  Kh8  20 Qh6+  1-0.

Originally published in CHESS CHOW, Feb.- March 1993, Volume III, Issue 2.

Centre Counter addicts usually rely upon some books (such as wahls') which do not enter this line. Still I wish you the best of luck (conforming to widely accepted policy how to treat BDG-adepts outside of their asylum).