Stigma wrote on 09/01/10 at 15:57:55:


Checking the book, I find that Comas does indeed also refer to the Mar del Plata as the Yugoslav variation. 

In his own practice Comas has generally employed ...Nbd7 and ...e5 against the Fianchetto and ...Na6 against the Classical. So he dislikes BOTH the "Yugoslav" variations that we have discussed in this thread.

Just to clarify: The direct quote by GM Lluis Comas on him not liking the way Yugoslavians play the KID was made in the context of the Botvinnik-Geller game which was a KID Fianchetto. However the remark was made in general and not specifically with reference to the KID Fianchetto.

Hence I am interested to know what is the difference between the Russian School and the Yugoslav School on KID play.

My ref to the naming of the KID Classical Main Line as the Yugoslav Var is in Ch 5 of the book where GM Lluis Comas is discussing his fav Var, namely the 6...Na6 var. I am just wondering whether there is a connection between this (in Ch 5) and the earlier quote which is in Ch 1.

Funny, I think the Portuguese do the reverse (ie. insert the mother's name before the father's).

So it seems "Comas" is talking about the MdP here.
I'm not sure whether Gligo invented it or just came up with the Rf7-Bf8 plan.

GabrielGale wrote on 09/01/10 at 05:47:55:


In the early days of the development of the KID (say late 1930s to early 1950s) the Russian (or more correctly Ukrainian) "school" - Bogatyrchuk, Konstantinopolsky, Bronstein, Boleslavsky, Geller... - favoured the ...Nbd7, ...e5 method against the Fianchetto variation, while the Yugoslav approach was with ...c5.

Pedantry corner: with reference to "Uruk's" post, the Spanish GM is generally known as Lluis Comas - the Fabrego part of his name merely reflects the Spanish custom of tagging on the mother's surname after the father's. (Similarly the top Spanish-born GM is Paco Vallejo, not Paco Pons.)

I was browsing in the book, True Lies, by GM Lluis Comas Fabrego. and came across this remark:
Quote:


This remark is at p20 when GM Comas Fabrego is anlaysing the game Botvinnik-Geller, Budapest 1952 http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1032256 with notes taken from Geller's book, The Application of Chess Theory. The author is looking at 15 a3 (given an ? by Geller) and he goes on to show that Geller's assessment was wrong.

But I am interested to know if anyone knows the background to this remark, re the Yugoslav school vs the Russian school.

Interestingly (and not sure whether this is significant for the above question), in Ch 5, a chapter dedicated entirely to the KID Classical Var with 6...Na6, GM Comas Fabrego's fav KID var, he posed as alternatives what he calls the "Yugoslav Variation": 6...e5 7 O-O Nc6 8 d5 Ne7.

That is just the KID Classical Var Main Line according to GM Golubev's book.

Can anyone shed any light on this?