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Re: The Yurtaev Variation
Reply #12 - 08/15/17 at 05:42:56
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Keano wrote on 08/15/17 at 01:16:04:
This is all very interesting.

I am currently looking at the "old/normal" Archangel with ...Bb7

If I can understand the problems there hoping I can understand the advantages of ...Bc5 line


I think the only reason the original Archangel isn't played as often as the New/Neo/Tkachiev/Yurtaev Archangel line is 6.d3. I believe Black is fine against everything else. He's probably fine against 6.d3 too, it's just that most players seem to think the pawn on d3 shits out the B on b7.
  
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Re: The Yurtaev Variation
Reply #11 - 08/15/17 at 01:16:04
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This is all very interesting.

I am currently looking at the "old/normal" Archangel with ...Bb7

If I can understand the problems there hoping I can understand the advantages of ...Bc5 line
  
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Re: The Yurtaev Variation
Reply #10 - 08/14/17 at 19:12:55
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Great IsaVulpes, I appreciate the detailed post!
  
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Re: The Yurtaev Variation
Reply #9 - 08/14/17 at 17:13:19
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I have it, and while the theory looks stocksolid, it does require you to have a ton of prior knowledge about the Spanish and probably even the Archangel. 
It's not a complete repertoire (so you'll need to find a solution vs Exchange etc from elsewhere), and there is very little if anything about "general considerations". 
Mostly just moves, and mostly cutting out where he sees equality - which I'm sure is correct, but if you aren't sure how to continue playing, that doesn't help too much.

Certainly ended up being too high-level for me; very hard to follow, and the arising positions are oftentimes nontrivial to play, even if you have some prior experience in the Spanish; the Bc5 DOES make everything feel quite different.

If you do know stuff about the Ruy, have spent your share of time understanding what the Bc5 changes in "normal, untesting" positions compared to the Be7, and are a stronger player than myself (not very difficult, admittedly), I'm certain the theory itself is state of the art, though. 
Svidler is extremely thorough and accurate - eg one line he went over later was played just the same in the Carlsen-Karjakin match, and he called it "You might hold this, but you won't have any fun" - which also happened (he instead recommends a different variation). 
He is perfectly honest throughout, and clearly states where he couldn't find 100% equality, something that even books on the Ruggeldurb-Dingdong-Countergambit-System frequently refuse to do.

But yeah, it's less his thoughts on the opening, and more his moves in the opening  Wink
  
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Re: The Yurtaev Variation
Reply #8 - 08/11/17 at 22:26:12
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I think it's also called the New-Archangel; anyway I see that Peter Svidler has a series on Chess24 about this, but I'm old-fashioned enough to prefer an actual book.  Still, it's hard to beat Peter Svidler giving his thoughts on an opening, so I may pick it up.
  
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Re: The Yurtaev Variation
Reply #7 - 08/11/17 at 20:22:55
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So, is this the same line that gets called the Neo-Archangel? As i dont play the Ruy Lopez as black or white, i get quite confused with some of these lines looking similar

I think Gawain Jones, the recent winner of the British has been playing this line (along with a game in the Modern Steinitz!)
  

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Re: The Yurtaev Variation
Reply #6 - 08/11/17 at 15:22:54
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Thanks for the story Tony (I realize that this is an old thread).  Any good books or DVDs, etc., on this particular variation?  It's appealed to me ever since seeing a brief article in Chess Life about it, maybe 1998 or so.
  
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Re: The Yurtaev Variation
Reply #5 - 07/02/15 at 19:45:01
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I had read about this too, perhaps on Facebook or Chess24 - fully agree with the rename!  Wink
  
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Re: The Yurtaev Variation
Reply #4 - 07/02/15 at 05:39:43
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I know all these nuances, of course.. Black has several ways to avoid entering these positions I mentioned.
I just felt obliged to pinpoint them.  Wink
  
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Re: The Yurtaev Variation
Reply #3 - 07/01/15 at 22:55:29
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Hi Guys,
I really just wanted to repeat the story Vlad told me to see if there is agreement about renaming this particular line on ChessPublishing (at the moment we just call it 'Archangel', which is actually only the 6...Bb7 line that Malaniuk was playing while serving in the military in Archangelsk).

brabo wrote on 07/01/15 at 18:13:47:
black very often doesn't develop the bishop to b7


I agree, I personally prefer to play ...Bb7 only when White has played h3, and after I have put my other pieces on good squares.
  
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Re: The Yurtaev Variation
Reply #2 - 07/01/15 at 18:13:47
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Vass, I think there are some important nuances which you miss.
In your bold mainline I believe black should instead of 11...0-0 play 11...g5 after which the sacrifice on g5 is nonsense.
Exactly because of this reason I play the line 10.a4 h6 11.Be3 which is indeed annoying for black.

However one of the main asset of the Neo-Archangel (that is the name which I put on the line) is that black very often doesn't develop the bishop to b7.
1 and only standard game of my own practice which shows this idea very well:

So black responds a4 with Rb8 as indicated already by Tony and makes sure no pin can happen after 0-0 (by timely introducing h6). 
If white doesn't want to play the mainline of Tony then maybe 11.Na3 could be an interesting try.

Anyway I haven't met the line anymore since 2003 in a standard game so did little or no follow up of the theory.
  
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Re: The Yurtaev Variation
Reply #1 - 07/01/15 at 10:38:07
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Hi, Tony!
If you want to play OTB this variation in the future, please take notice of these variations and full correspondence chess games above! The analysis I made on this variation brought me to conclusion that there are two types of positions - one after Bc1-g5 h7-h6 Bg5-h4 g7-g5 Nf3xg5 and the other after 11. Be3 O-O 12. d5 - which are extremely hard to be defended by black. The overall conclusion of the old experts of this Spanish variation is that if white plays c2-c3 (and not d2-d3) and prolong it with d2-d4 pawn advances, the black bishop has to occupy the b7-square. Archangel, New Archangel, Yurtaev or not - all of these variations may lead you by transpositions to one of these positions. Right now, I play a couple of correspondence chess games as white, so I can't prolong the variations that I showed above, but both of these games lead to win for white. What is interesting, after Bg5 h6 Bh4 g5 Nxg5 even the best engines show full equality - 0.00 .. Well, maybe black can save this position, but only if played by the world correspondence chess champion.
I know well the difference between OTB and correspondence chess - I myself played OTB 20 years ago at master level.. But, still..  Smiley
  
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The Yurtaev Variation
07/01/15 at 00:10:03
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Last Saturday I played 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 a6 4 Ba4 Nf6 5 0-0 b5 6 Bb3 Bc5 as Black on board 2 of a French 1/2 final cup match. Our board one was Vlad Tkachiev, and after we finished our games we were chatting and he asked me what name I used for this line, and so I said Archangel or New Archangel, although I thought it probably wasn't right.
Then he explained to me how the variation came about, how he was playing a tournament and sharing a room with Yurtaev (I suppose in 1994). Vlad didn't know what to play as Black and his room-mate suggested this 6...Bc5 line that he'd been analysing, so Vlad started playing it and made some good results. Yurtaev's (pre-computer) analysis was very deep, and for instance he had realised that 7 Nxe5 Nxe5 8 d4 can be easily answered by the (slightly illogical) 8...Bxd4.
At first they used it as a transpositional weapon to reach Archangel positions, but then one day Khalifman suggested answering 7 a4 with 7...Rb8 (instead of 7...Bb7) ready to sacrifice the b-pawn after 8 c3 d6 9 d4 Bb6 10 axb5 axb5 11 Na3 0-0 12 Nxb5 Bg4, and the modern line was born.




Anyway, Vlad told me that he might write one of his blogs on the birth of this line, but I thought I'd mention it here first, and maybe change its title in the Updates and ChessPub Guides. Undecided

I see this is hardly news for some members:

TN wrote on 06/21/15 at 06:29:04:
the Yurtaev Variation with 5...b5 6.Bb3 Bc5
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