60 minutes series - Queen's Gambit Declined - Exchange variation 6.Qc2 part II

So here it is, the second part of our repertoire choice against the Exchange variation in the classical Queen's gambit.

Last time we looked at all sidelines available to white except the main line Nge2, breaking the pin!
Today we'll look at this very line and check whether black can have enough counterplay to proof equality.

Black's main idea and plan is still to play g6-Ng7-Nb6-Bf5, to exchange of the bad Bishop against white's good one. After achieving this he usually has equalized, should white not have anything concrete for it!


[Event "C) 10.Nge2 g6 11.0-0-0"]
[Date "2012.11.14"]
[White "vs. 1.d4 - QGD - 4.cxd5 exd5"]
[Black "6.Qc2 Be7 7.e3 Nbd7 8.Bd3 Nh5"]
[ECO "D36"]
[Annotator "DailyChess.tv"]
[PlyCount "125"]


1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 c6 6. Qc2 Be7 7. e3 Nbd7 8.
Bd3 Nh5 9. Bxe7 Qxe7 10. Nge2 

White's breaking the pin and prepares castling either short or long. Black's plan did not change. The position got a bit simplified, but the prize was high. Black lost precious time locating his Knight to the rim ("A knight on the rim is dim") and has to relocate it. His king is still in the center and white is much better developed. So he should try to stop black's development and create serious threats!

(10. Nf3? Nf4 11. O-O Nxd3 12. Qxd3 O-O 13. Rae1 Nb6 14. b3 Be6=)

10... g6 11. O-O-O

(11. h3 Ng7 12. g4 Nb6 {transposes})
(11. g4 Ng7 12. O-O-O Nb6 {after h3 transposes} 13. Rdg1 an individual try but black's alright here Bd7 14. h4 h5! playing against white's structure! 15. g5
(15. gxh5 Nxh5 -/+ black should be much better here (15... Nxh5 16. Bxg6 fxg6 17. Qxg6+ Qf7 18. Qxf7+ Kxf7 -/+))
15... Bf5 with enough counterplay)
(11. Rb1 Nb6 12. b4 a6 13. a4 Ng7 14. b5 cxb5 15. axb5 a5 16.
Na4 Nxa4 17. Qxa4 b6)
(11. O-O Nb6 12. Rae1 Ng7 13. Ng3 (13. Nf4 Bf5 (13... O-O
14. f3 f5) 14. e4 dxe4 15. Bxe4 Bxe4 16. Rxe4 Ne6) 13... h5)
 11... Nb6 12. h3
(12. Ng3 is an alternative but black simply ignores it and follows his plan! Ng7 13. Kb1 Bd7 14. Rc1 O-O-O 15. Na4 
(15. Nb5 Kb8 leads to nothing)
15... Nxa4 16. Qxa4 Kb8 17. Rc3 b6 18. Ba6 Ne6 19. Rhc1 Rhe8 20. Qb3 
(20. Qa3 Qxa3 21. Rxa3) 20...Qd6 21. Nf1 Ka8 22. Nd2 Nc7 23. Bf1 Ne6 (23... Qxh2 24. Nf3 Qd6 25. Ne5 Rxe5
26. dxe5 Qxe5 with enough compensation i think)) (12. Kb1 Ng7)

12... Ng7 13. g4! stopping Bf5
(13. Kb1 Bf5 14. Bxf5 Nxf5= ) 

13... Bd7 14. Kb1 O-O-O 15. Nf4 Kb8 16. Be2 Ne6 17. Nd3 Rc8 18. b4 Nc4 19.Ka1 b6!? (19... b5! i like this one more 20. a4 a6 21. axb5 axb5 22. Qa2 Kb7 and black is just in time to prevent white from penetrating as Ra8 is a threat)

20. Qb3 Rhd8 21. Rc1 Be8 22. Rhd1 f6 23. Bf3 Nc7 24. Nb2 Bf7 25. Be2 Nd6 26. Rc2 Ncb5 27. Nb1 Ne8 28. Rdc1 Qb7 29. Qd3 Nbd6 30. Qd1 Qd7 31. h4 Rc7 32. Qg1 Ka8 33. Qg2 Rb8 34. Nd2 b5 35. Nd3 Nc4 36. Nb3 Ned6 37. g5 fxg5 38. hxg5 Be6 39. Nbc5 Qc8 40. Nxe6 Qxe6
41. Nc5 Qc8 42. Bg4 Qe8 43. Na6 Rf7 44. Nxb8 Kxb8 45. Be2 Qd8 46. Bd3 a5 47. bxa5 Qxa5 48. Qh2 Ka8 49. Qh1 Ra7 50. Qe1 Qd8 51. Qb4 Qc8 52. Rh1 Qe8 53. Bxc4 Nxc4 54. Rh4 Rf7 55. Qc5 Qd7 56. e4 Qe6 57. a4 dxe4 58. axb5 Ra7+ 59. Ra2 Rxa2+ 60. Kxa2 Qf7 61. bxc6 Qxf2+ 62. Kb3 Nd2+ 63. Kb4 {1-0 Granda Zuniga,J (2550)
-Nogueiras Santiago,J (2540)/Buenos Aires 1991/CBM 024} *

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New book review (in german) - "Das Verständnis des Mittelspiels im Schach"

Hey everyone,
check out my review of John Nunn's "Understanding Chess Middlegames" (2012 - by Gambit Publications) in german (ger.: "Das Verständnis des Mittelspiels im Schach")

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Feel free to leave a comment, further reviews are published in near future, also in english!

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How to play pawn endgames ep. 4 - Opposition II

In this lecture you'll get the opportunity to test your knowledge obtained in the last lecture in which you could read about all different kind of oppositions and see in the clip how the technique  is used to win/obtain a superior king!

Here you'll get a position in which you'll have to dominate the opponent's king by permanently keeping the opposition, whereever the opponent's king goes!

Grap and keep the opposition forever!

According to our knowledge, we have a 'virtual opposition' on the board! To obtain the opposition, we have to search for the 'cornerstones'! If we take the opponent's king, we can see him located on h7, a light square! If we then search for either a square or rectangle, which's cornerstones are of the same color we can easily see the green and yellow squares - this was a hint for the beginner's -. So the first move is not that difficult

1.Kb3! "+-" of course this position is dead drawn, but it's all about having the opposition and thus keeping the better king! (1.Kb1?! is also good, but does not really make progress as we usually aim to approach the opponent's king and keep the opposition!) Kg6 2.Kc4! Virtual opposition Kf6 3.Kd4! Vertical opposition! Ke5 4.Ke4! Normal opposition

RememberThe distance opposition and all other kind of oppositions are only of any use, if we can transform them into a normal opposition! The reason being:  Only from a normal opposition we'll be able to bypass the opponent's king!

How to play pawn endgames ep. 3 - Opposition I

In this lecture we'll learn more about the Opposition and the way it's used to outplay the opponent's king!
Due to the rules of chess both king's can never touch each other. So we have to imagine some kind of invisible barrier seperating both monarch's.
But especially thanks to this very rule, it's possible to fight for superiority! The technique of Opposition is used to show, that one king can dominate the other by forcing him to move!
Once the opponent's king moves, we can penetrate on the square that were left unprotected!

Here's the basic example of how the normal Opposition looks like

Normal Opposition - One square seperating both king's

What kind of Oppositions exists?

Normal Opposition

1 square between both king's

Distance opposition

3 or more squares seperating both king's

Vertical opposition

Virtual opposition

How to play pawn endgames ep.2 - Square of the pawn with a blockade

In our last lecture we learned about the "square of the pawn". As we stated, the opponent's king is able to stop it if he can move straight toward the pawn wihtout being blocked!
This time we'll see an example in which the path is blocked!

The black's kings' path is blocked!

If he tries to move toward our pawn and inside the square, he'll face a small problem..

A time consuming problem...

In order to move along his most direct route (and the only one to stop the pawn) he would have to march through his own pawn, which is illegal! His own pawn acts as a blockader and thus gives soem tempi in order to promote his own pawn! The opponent's king has to move around and spend one move more to catch the a-pawn!

1...Ke4 2.a5! Kd5 3.a6 Kc6 4.a7 Kb7 =

But the path on the light squares is blocked.... thus not allowing 2...Kd5!

1...Ke4 2.a5! Ke5 (2...Kd4 does not help either) 3.a6 Kd6 4.a7 Kc7 5.a8Q +-

If you're interested in more material to chess endgames, i can highly recommend the following books/dvd's.




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How to play pawn endgames ep.1 - The square of the pawn

Can black stop the pawn from promoting?

{Whether the king is able to catch the pawn or not is easily seen if you know
the rule of the square! The so called "square of the pawn" is a virtual square
drawn from the pawn to either the bottom or the top of the board (depending
which side he runs towards).}

How to draw the square of the pawn on a3

1. a4! (If it's black to move 1. -- Kf4! Getting inside the square 2. a4 Ke5 3. a5 Kd6 4. a6 Kc7 5.
a7 Kb7 being just in time to stop it) 1... Kf4 2. a5 (2. Kg2?? would give black a tempi he needs in order to stop the pawn and to enter the square! Ke5 3. a5 Kd6 4. a6 Kc7 5. a7 Kb7 =) 2...
Ke5 3. a6 Kd6 4. a7 Kc7 5. a8=Q *

If you're interested in more material to chess endgames, i can highly recommend the following books/dvd's.




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Book reviews

Dear readers,

i'm happy to anounce a new section here on tvdailychess.blogspot.com! It's about book reviews. I'll give some book reviews every month from now on. Those books are either provided by my partner's (Gambit publication) or based on those i have in my own library!
Of course you can find all those reviews on my youtube channel as well, just search for  DailyChess Review and you'll soon find several books.

My approach towards it is structured and straight.
I'll check the layout of those books, as same as the structure and typesetting.
The main focus will be on the content, of course. There i'll check whether the  players's mentioned are at all relevant (regarding opening experts) and if the games theirselfs are not out-dated. Of course the analysis itself is also to be checked if there are any misleading analysis or wrong evaluations at the end of each line. At the same time i'll check if the author(s) skipped certain lines or simply put an abrupt endn to it without even going further into well known lines, all typical methods i encountered numerous times!

Of course we must also check if the diagrams are correct and if the stuff presented is easy to learn and absorb or just too complicated for the average player to grasp.

Regarding german titles i'll provide reviews in german, otherwise in english!

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