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Re: Stonewall - A fighting repertoire against 1.d4
Reply #24 - 02/02/17 at 06:44:20
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alyechin wrote on 02/01/17 at 16:03:07:
I think i found a the solution of the 1...e6 move order Dutch against non fianchetto lines:



It keeps an eye on the e4 square and gives me the possibility to play later ...Ne4 and ...f5. This move (...Nf6 followed by Bb4)  may be the novelty of the year. I call it "The improved Dutch"!  Wink


A great improvement  Smiley How can this have gone under the radar for such a long time  Grin
  
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Re: Stonewall - A fighting repertoire against 1.d4
Reply #23 - 02/01/17 at 20:51:23
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Of course. Its such a stunningly original concept Wink
  
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Re: Stonewall - A fighting repertoire against 1.d4
Reply #22 - 02/01/17 at 19:04:18
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Does this really even need a diagram...?

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Re: Stonewall - A fighting repertoire against 1.d4
Reply #21 - 02/01/17 at 16:03:07
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I think i found a the solution of the 1...e6 move order Dutch against non fianchetto lines:



It keeps an eye on the e4 square and gives me the possibility to play later ...Ne4 and ...f5. This move (...Nf6 followed by Bb4)  may be the novelty of the year. I call it "The improved Dutch"!  Wink
  
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Re: Stonewall - A fighting repertoire against 1.d4
Reply #20 - 01/31/17 at 17:49:22
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gewgaw wrote on 01/30/17 at 22:43:44:
Eljanov's play against Magnus in Wijk aan Zee was very impressive and somewhat easy to understand. My question: where did Magnus go wrong?

Some analysis was posted on https://en.chessbase.com/post/2017-tata-rd12-pressure-last-round-2
My personal experience with this type of position is that you better don't play Bd7 exactly because of this Qb3 idea as played by Eljanov. I won a very nice game against a French FM with Bd7 but I realized that white was better in the opening. Now I prefer to play a setup with Nbd7 as advocated in the book https://www.amazon.com/Win-Stonewall-Dutch-Sverre-Johnsen/dp/1906454078.
  
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Re: Stonewall - A fighting repertoire against 1.d4
Reply #19 - 01/30/17 at 22:43:44
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Eljanov's play against Magnus in Wijk aan Zee was very impressive and somewhat easy to understand. My question: where did Magnus go wrong?
  
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Re: Stonewall - A fighting repertoire against 1.d4
Reply #18 - 01/30/17 at 21:08:13
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alyechin wrote on 01/30/17 at 17:26:05:
I don't like that White playing natural moves gets a good position, without knowing any theory.

Then the Dutch is not for you. This is not meant in a snarky way. Like Brabo already said it's typical for this opening that Black must play accurately, understand exactly what he/she's doing and be willing to play one or two unnatural moves the first 15 moves or so. But then the fun begins if things are going Black's way. For instance in one game I withdrew all my pieces to the backrank and then opened the position with e6-e5. My teammates were horrified, but that immediately disappeared when I had a crushing attack only three moves later! Afterwards I found how White could have defended and maintained equality, but my opponent obviously didn't find it.
But yeah, Black can never play on the automatic pilot. Almost every reasonable setup by White is potentially dangerous. To paraphrase Williams: "Black can never sit still". There are no easy solutions. With Kylemeister I strongly doubt if that Stonewall line is one.
  
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Re: Stonewall - A fighting repertoire against 1.d4
Reply #17 - 01/30/17 at 20:23:44
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Offhand I would have thought that the main line would be for White not to be eager to exchange on d6, which goes back to Schlechter-John and such.
  
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Re: Stonewall - A fighting repertoire against 1.d4
Reply #16 - 01/30/17 at 20:07:25
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kylemeister wrote on 01/30/17 at 19:55:43:
So what's the story according to Kritz regarding this kind of thing:  1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 e6 4. Nf3 d5 5. Bf4?


His main line is:
  
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Re: Stonewall - A fighting repertoire against 1.d4
Reply #15 - 01/30/17 at 19:55:43
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So what's the story according to Kritz regarding this kind of thing:  1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 e6 4. Nf3 d5 5. Bf4?
  
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Re: Stonewall - A fighting repertoire against 1.d4
Reply #14 - 01/30/17 at 19:29:48
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In his 60 minutes video lectures Leonit Kritz recoments to play the Stonewall setup also against non fianchetto lines. Maybe this is the solution?
  
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Re: Stonewall - A fighting repertoire against 1.d4
Reply #13 - 01/30/17 at 18:06:12
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alyechin wrote on 01/30/17 at 17:26:05:
I don't like that White playing natural moves gets a good position, without knowing any theory.

True and that is for sure one of the mainreasons why the Dutch will never be a mainstream opening.
I already pointed this out in my article http://chess-brabo.blogspot.be/2013/09/a-dutch-gambit-part-2.html. "In the Dutch there are many green moves."
Green moves are considered by openingbooks as fully playable.

I am now coaching a bunch of promising young players but I don't make any advertising for the Dutch despite I played it exclusively for 20 years. People often ask me why I don't play anything else but the Dutch has become for me like a child which you nurtured and have a strong emotional relation with.
  
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Re: Stonewall - A fighting repertoire against 1.d4
Reply #12 - 01/30/17 at 17:26:05
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I don't like that White playing natural moves gets a good position, without knowing any theory.
  
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Re: Stonewall - A fighting repertoire against 1.d4
Reply #11 - 01/30/17 at 16:36:53
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alyechin wrote on 01/29/17 at 21:07:16:
5.Qb3 Qe7 6.Bg5 leads to a pleasant advantage for White according to Scharndorf.

Yeah, but you still got your move order wrong in your first post. Plus a pleasant advantage is not the same as refutation. Plus it's not hard to improve Black's play in Schandorff's main line. Plus he writes explicitly that he "would play 3.g3 myself" after 1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5. Plus with both players having an ELO 2400+ Black actually has 51% after 5.Qb3 Qe7 (and even much better after 6.Bg5). So while this remains a respectable and rather unexplored way to play as White it's not exactly the most important line to investigate in the Dutch.
  
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Re: Stonewall - A fighting repertoire against 1.d4
Reply #10 - 01/30/17 at 16:18:16
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alyechin wrote on 01/30/17 at 15:06:31:
brabo wrote on 01/30/17 at 06:19:47:
Who is Scharndorf?
I know GM Lars Schandorff but he recommends something very different against the Dutch see my article http://schaken-brabo.blogspot.be/2013/03/lars-schandorff.html unless he changed recently his mind. 


Via 1. d4 e6 2. c4 f5 move order...

Weird as I can't find any game of Lars where he played that line.
Anyway I never met it in a rated game so I did not study this.
  
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