The tarrasch defence free ebook download as pdf file. The tarrasch defense is a viable defense to the queens gambit. The tarrasch is a flexible formation that can be used to meet just about any move order used by white. What is the tarrasch defense the tarrasch defense is a variation belonging to the queens gambit declined. Learn from this crucial game in the 1984 world chess championship between two of the greatest to ever play the game. This was primarily esbens project and he wrote most of the tarrasch chapters, especially on his favourite line 9g5 c4.
Great fighters like boris spassky, paul keres and garry kasparov have played the tarrasch defence. How did garry kasparov, one of the greatest chess players ever, use the. Black succeeds in eliminating whites space advantage, and often obtaining a superiority in central control himself. The tarrasch defence is one of the most ambitious ways to play against 1. In the encyclopedia of chess openings, the tarrasch defense has codes d32 through d34. The semitarrasch defense is a chess opening characterized by the following moves. Their repertoire is mainly diff erent from mine, but at some points we suggest the same line. Black immediately fights for the centre, gets a lot of space and develops his pieces without many problems. Search the chess games database, download games, view frequent practitioners and browse the opening explorer. An excellent potted history of the tarrasch is set out by one of its exponents in the 1970s, gm john nunn. In this book i do not cover the catalan, just as i dont analyse the nimzo indian, or the queens gambit with no cap.
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