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I see what you mean!
Maybe there'll be some more enthusiasm along in a minute. Meanwhile, perhaps I can partly revise my question above on 6 Bg5. Rightly or wrongly, I took it that Black's traditional response of 6 ...h6 is best -- I didn't like the look of the other lines. Now several sources give 7 Bf6 Qf6 8 0-0 Bc3 9 bc 0-0 10 Qe2!? as a bit better for White, usually on the basis of the ancient game Ilyin-Zhenevsky--Nenarokov, Moscow 1924, and I confess I had just assumed this to be correct. But is it? The game continued 10 ...Bd7 11 Nd2, and here Nenarokov's 11 ...Rfd8 looks very odd to me. I showed the position to a couple of engines, which favoured 11 ...Qf4!?, with possible ideas of playing ...f5 or meeting g2--g3 with ...Qd6--Qa3. At any rate the position is very rich and complex, and surely of the "The better/more resourceful player will win" type, so I don't think Black should necessarily be too worried. I wondered, though, if White could go 10 Nd2 immediately, borrowing an idea from a well-known line of Owen's Defence.
Thoughts? Incidentally, when I gave Rybka (1.0) this position, it came out with the weird 6 0-0!?. What's this?, I thought, but soon the idea became clear: 6 ...Bc3 7 ed!. My snap thought was that after 7 ...Bb2 8 Bb2 Qd5 Black should be all right, but I certainly haven't looked at this closely. I hadn't seen this interesting tactic before -- are there any other opening lines in which it occurs?
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C10: Hecht-Reefschlager Variation (Read 9701 times)
