By Peter Wells
The accelarated improvement of the White queen's bishop after 1 d4 Nf6 2 Bg5 was once for a few years thought of a extraordinary chess starting, practiced in simple terms by way of a couple of "eccentric" chess avid gamers scattered world wide, together with the Brazilian Octavio Trompowsky, after whom the difference was once named. Then within the Nineties, after an opportunity discovery, the younger English grandmaster, Julian Hodgson, began to play it at the united kingdom and overseas chess circuit with dramatic good fortune, scoring many brief wins with speeding attacking play. by means of strength of instance, the outlet then observed a swift elevate in attractiveness; in truth, it's now considered as "mainline" conception. gamers drawn to gaining knowledge of this circulate will locate right here a radical survey of the advance and most recent traits during this interesting establishing, including illustrative video games. A needs to for any aggressive participant.
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It>d8? looks worse, since although it is obviously attractive that the rook on h8 can play, the undefended g7 pawn will imply an extra tempo for White. Hodgson gives 14 �d2 :'e8 1 5 'i g5 ! which looks good) 14 a3 and now : b l ) 1 4 . . �b7 ? 1 5 axb4 ! Vf4 'Yi'b6 was Hodgson-Stohl, Isle of Man (op) 1 995, when the simplest according to Julian is 1 9 0,dxb5 0,xd5 20 'i'xd6+ WVxd6 2 1 0,xd6 0,xc3 22 bxc3 which does indeed look like tremendous value for an exchange, pawns and a potentially dominating dark-squared bishop.
B5( ! ) . This I rejected because I felt that after 1 2 ttJc3 (not 1 2 b3? because 1 2 . . ttJh5 followed by . . ltf6 would cause major embarrassment) 1 2 . . bxc4 1 3 jLxc4 White ' s extra mobilisation would be as important as the long-term queenside chances Black might obtain. However, having analysed this in the light of a practical test the picture seems a good deal more complex. In fact after 12 . . bxc4 White is well advised to throw in 13 l':te 1 �d8 and then faces a tricky but very important choice: a) 14 ttJe4 ?
Xf6 [or 23 . . b l exf3 23 lie! fxg2+ 24