The most exact way to exploit white's setup seems to be the rather odd but logical when you think about it Bb3-a4 and maybe to b5 manuever, shoving your bishop into white's queenside holes, eg:

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. g3 Nf6 7. Bg2 Be7 8. O-O O-O 9. dxc5 Bxc5 10. a3 Ne4 11. Qc2 Nxc3 12. Qxc3 Bb6 13. b4 d4 14. Qd2 Re8 15. Bb2 Be6! 16. Rad1 Bb3 17. Rc1 Ba4 and black should be okay.

No but that line is in several computer theory books for white such as bookbuilder(c) on the ICC

Ametanoitos, 
Who are the modern heroes of Tarrash - whose games we can follow to learn the themese? I am asking for post Spassky-Kasparov era.

I am reading Chapter 7 on 16. Rc1! and the explanations are quite insightful. To be honest I would never fathomed the Tarrasch to experience a revival until this book. Perhaps Morozevich will start playing it and cause an increase in popularity, except probably a more sustainable one than he did with the Albin and Chigorin.

BabySnake wrote on 12/23/11 at 13:48:30:
sorry, no, he can't play 3.d5, it should be dxc5! 

I think this has been dealt with in A killer chess opening repertoire, and possibly Win with the London system, but for the White side.

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Err....no.....

He might play 3.dxc5 though.

Ametanoitos wrote on 12/23/11 at 13:20:10:


I forgot that Avrukh is working on that book. Smart, now QC get to sell me another book!

The Colle is not that big a problem, it just seems like that the ...e6 lines are what the "normal" Colle player wants, especially in the Colle-Zuckertort. Black is solid, but White gets to play his standard set-up plans, I think, and that is why I have looked at other plans than an early ...e6.

Of course, when I have converted to the Tarrasch, the ...e6-lines may be the way to go 

emary wrote on 12/23/11 at 09:31:53:


The only thing I don't like with an early ...e6 is against the Colle systems. Not terrible, but seems a bit more passive than to leave the pawn on e7 in order to keep the diagonal open for the bishop (c8-h3). On the other hand, I like challenging the London with an early ...c5, but usually will play the pawn to e6. I guess I have to learn some of the lines in Dealing with d4-deviations (QID-type set-ups). 

Also, White can avoid the Tarrasch by playing 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 c5 3.d5 of course.

I would say that after just going briefly over the book, the main thing missing is more pages ! It would be nice with some mentioning of these early deviations for White, especially as the Introduction states that it is hard for White to avoid the Tarrasch. But I guess that is what we can continue to discuss in this thread