Stonewall Attack Chess Pdf Kasparov

The Stonewall Attack – Basic concepts for beginners What is the Stonewall Attack? Basically it is the Dutch Defence Stonewall variation played by White. As White gains a tempo by having the 1 st move this is one of the defences that converts nicely into an attack. Many beginners try to play this opening with less than satisfactory results & the reason is that they don't understand the concepts underlying the opening.

Realflow 3ds max 2014 pluginboutique. White: Kasparov, Garry Black: Deep Blue Opening: Reti - King's Indian attack, Keres variation Result: White wins.

Adobe postscript printer driver for windows 7 64 bit free download. Transposing move order or changing the positional structure can rapidly lead to a confusing & often disastrous result leaving the player wondering “Where did I go wrong?” So we start with the pawn structure after which the opening is named. Stonewall refers to a specific pawn structure not the town where it was invented or the player who made it popular or where certain pieces are moved. It is just the pawn structure.

So here it is from Whites point of view. Oldos haksli vrata percepcije pdf to jpg. As you can see the structure is quite solid, which is why it is so successful in the Dutch defence. It can be difficult to attack successfully & provides a couple of key points for White from which to generate an attack.

The b1 – h7 diagonal is open for the LSB with sacrifice potential on h7 & the e5 square is a strong outpost for a Knight with 2 supporting Pawns. After Castling the f file is an excellent place for a Rook as it can be opened very easily with a pawn exchange targeting Blacks traditional weakness the f7 pawn. If you are into pattern imprinting this is what you are looking for in Pawn structure so use whatever techniques you have to lock this structure into you brain. Looking at the Pawn structure what are the weaknesses? The obvious one that we first need to deal with is the hole on e4.

A hole is a square that cannot be defended by a Pawn(s). If Black could place a Knight there supported by a Pawn on d5 it would have an excellent outpost & the b1 – h7 diagonal would be closed for the LSB. As the LSB is vital to the attack the strategy is to over protect that square.

This is done first with the LSB & then with the Knight on b1 moving to d2. So far we have only looked at the position from Whites point of view. This is the position we strive for so commit it to memory if you can. Of course we can only play according to Blacks response to our moves so we now look at it from both sides of the board. There are several ways for Black to prevent us playing the Stonewall, these will be addressed later. At the moment the entire point of this exercise is to learn the Stonewall itself not the refutations. As the opening plays out there are several critical responses White must make to moves by Black.

There is no room for error here the response must be immediate. So here is how a game may start. Blacks moves are typical of what a lower level player may make especially if he doesn't know exactly what you are playing. Move order is important here for White. After Black plays Nf6 White must play Nd2 to prevent Blacks Ne4.

Blacks move.c5 is the next & one of the most critical response moves in the early opening. It threatens 2 things. Firstly it threatens to exchange pawns d4. So if c5 x d4 we recapture with the e3 pawn. The reason for this is twofold, firstly it maintains the c3 d4 pawn structure for reasons that become important later, secondly by recapturing with the d Pawn we partially solve problem of the DSB which is locked in by the Knight on d2 & the Pawn on e3, later in the game when the Knight on d2 moves the Bishop may be developed to a better square freeing up the Rook on a1, it will also lend support to the Pawn on f4 after the Knight moves. So in many cases Black is doing you a favour with this exchange & receives very little in return for it. The other threat of.c5 is a little more subtle but possibly even more important.