Vass wrote on 06/28/11 at 12:55:41:
TopNotch wrote on 05/05/09 at 16:22:44:
Stefan Buecker wrote on 04/29/09 at 04:05:08:
(At first posted elsewhere, but it may be of interest.)
1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.d4 Qxd5 4.Nf3 Bg4 5.Be2 Nc6 6.c4 Qf5 is a set-up that I studied a few months ago. 7.Be3 0-0-0 8.0-0 e5 9.d5 e4 10.Nd4 Nxd4 11.Bxd4 Bd6 12.Nc3 Bxe2 13.Nxe2! +=. Black seemed to be fine in this line, very often he gets a strong attack. But the text move is a clear improvement, mainly because it defends White's king! For example: 13...Qg5 14.h3 Rhe8 15.Rc1 a6 16.Qb3 Be5 17.Qe3 h6 18.Rc3 Kb8 19.Bxe5 Qxe5 20.Nd4 Nd7 21.b4 Nb6. White has the better prospects. I can't say whether the following is best, but it's a nice attempt: 22.b5!? Nxd5 23.cxd5 Rxd5 24.Nb3 axb5 25.Rfc1 Qd6 26.f3 f5 27.Rc5 Rd1+ 28.Rxd1 Qxd1+ 29.Kh2 Qd7 30.Qd4 Qxd4 31.Nxd4 e3 32.Rc1 f4 33.Nxb5 +/-, White has good winning chances.
The line is potentially great for Black - but only if my analysis can be refuted.
Interestingly enough Dzinzicashvili and Perelstehn on his very recent DVD Roman's Lab 68 is recommending this line as good for Black!!, but they only consider the positions after 13.Qxe2.
Sometimes I really regret not being able to be a more active tournament player.
Tops
Looking for a "hole" in the above mentioned analysis...I can only propose you this exact move order for black:
1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Nf6 3. Nf3 Qxd5 4. d4 Bg4 5. Be2 Nc6 6. c4 Qf5 7. Be3 O-O-O 8. O-O e5 9. d5 e4 10. Nd4 Nxd4 11. Bxd4 Bxe2! (my mark!...and not Bd6 right now) 12. Qxe2 ...and now 12... Bd6
Here I state that I play Scandinavian (with 2... Nf6) for more than 30 years...and I find this exact move order completely safe for black. Countless games and analyses proved me that Scandinavian with 2... Nf6 is completely playable though very difficult to manage with...both as black and white.
Two of my recent correspondent games at a high level proved me I can rely on this opening even in the sharpest lines in the Portuguese variation. Though I admit I suffered with black with no more chances than achieving two draws.
Hello Vass,
Could you please publish the two Portuguese games, perhaps in a thread on the Portuguese (there must be one or two in this forum)? I'd be very interested - there was an article by
Michiel Wind in
Kaissiber which seemed to make the system unattractive for Black (something like a +/- endgame, but with drawing chances for Black).
Thank you very much for checking my analysis above. One of the points of Black's play was that after
11...Bd6 12.Nc3 Bxe2 13.Qxe2 he had the strong 13...Ng4 which gave him nice chances (objectively about equal, I think, but there are dangerous traps like 14.h3? Nh2 planning Nf3+!). If White played instead 12.Re1 (intending 12...Bxe2 13.Qxe2 Ng4? 14.h3), Black has the good move 12...h5, keeping the tension and the rook on h8.
On the other side,
11...Bxe2 12.Qxe2 Bd6 13.Re1 is an improvement for White upon that last variation. It is a version of the 11...Bd6 line, but a less ambitious version. After 13.Te1 my old analysis went: 13...Rhe8 (not a move Black loves to play in this line) 14.Nc3 Be5 15.Bxe5 (15.Bxa7?! Bxh2+) 15...Qxe5 and White has the better position. It is still playable for Black, of course (even after 13.Nxe2! I only claimed a +=), but he hasn't really equalized.
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