Hodgson attack
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Position after 1. d4 d5 2. Bg5
The Hodgson attack , also known as the pseudo Trompowsky , Levizki attack or queens bishop attack ( Queens Bishop Attack ), is an opening of the game of chess . The Hodgson attack is one of the closed games , namely a queen pawn game and begins with the moves:
1. d4 d5
2. Bg5
The Hodgson attack is classified with the ECO code D00.
Namesake of the opening
The opening is named after the Englishman Julian Hodgson (born July 25, 1963 ). He has been using this sequence of moves regularly since the mid-1980s and achieved numerous successes.
history
Since black is the continuation of the second denied ... e6, which Hodgson attack to the game in unfamiliar waters of Queen's Pawn Games to draw and especially the theory ausanalysierten classical systems of the Queen's Gambit avoided.
The Hodgson attack was first used in 1880.
In 1912 Stepan Levizki tried this original sequence of moves against Akiba Rubinstein in Vilnius , and White got after 1. d4 d5 2. Bg5 c6 3. Nc3 Bf5 4. Qd2 Nd7 5. f3 Ngf6 (This position is now more similar to Richter-Weressow -Opening .) 6. e4 dxe4 7. Df4 Da5 8. 0–0–0 exf3 9. d5 strong attack.
World chess champion Alexander Alekhine played this sequence of moves twice: for the first time on July 13, 1913 against Fritz Carl Anton Englund and one last time on January 22, 1914 against Bernhard Gregory , although he lost this second game unhappily after failing to exploit his great opening advantage. Then this sequence of moves was no longer used as often.
The Hodgson attack did not become popular at the grandmaster level until the 1980s. This sequence of moves is next to Julian Hodgson u. a. also used by Genrikh Chepukaitis, Tony Miles , Michael Adams , Vladimir Akopian , Smbat Lputjan , Igor Miladinović , Ian Rogers , Eugenio Torre , Eric Lobron .
Main variants
The main continuations after 1. d4 d5 2. Bg5 are:
- 2.… Nf6
- 3. Bxf6 goes into the Trompowsky attack .
- 3. Nc3 Nbd7 goes into the Richter-Weressow opening .
- 3. Nc3 e6 4. e4 goes over to the French defense .
- 3. Nf3 e6 4. e3 c5 5. Nbd2 Nbd7 6. c3 Bd6 7. Bd3 goes into the Torre attack .
- 3. e3 e6 4. c4 goes into the Queen's Gambit .
- 2.… Nd7
- 3. e3 Ngf6 4. c4 e6 goes into the Queen's Gambit .
- 3. Nc3 Ngf6 goes into the Richter-Weressow opening .
- 2.… c5
- 3. e4 dxe4 4. d5 and there is an Albins counter-gambit with swapped colors.
- 3. dxc5
- 2.… c6 has no independent meaning; mostly goes into the sequence of moves 2.… h6 3. Bh4 c6.
- 2.… h6 3. Bh4 c6
- 4. e3 Qb6 White must play 5. b3 or 5. Qc1 in order not to lose the pawn on b2. In both cases Black answers with the dummy offering 5.… e7 – e5, because 6. d4xe5 loses the Bh4 with 6.… Qb6 – b4 +.
- 4. Nf3 Qb6 White can also play 5. b3 or 5. Qc1.
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Position after 7.… Qxd4
A very sharp variant played by Julian Hodgson , in which White sacrifices a pawn, is: 1. d4 d5 2. Bg5 h6 3. Bh4 c6 4. Nf3 Qb6 5. Qc1 g5 6. Bg3 g4 7. Ne5 Qxd4 results in the Key position. By advancing his pawns, Black has endangered his own kingside and thus his own king's security. Without further development of other black pieces, the black queen is quite insecure and can easily be attacked if the white pieces develop. White could continue with 8. Nd2, 8. e3, 8. c3, 8. a4 or 8. c4.
- 2.… f6
- 3. Bc1
- 3. Bf4 ( Julian Hodgson - Hedinn Steingrimsson, Bundesliga 2002/03, 13th round on March 9, 2003)
- 3. Bh4
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Position after 8. Ng1
A disaster for White's move was seen in Josko Mukic ( Elo 2379) - Zoltán Ribli (Elo 2558), 10th Hotel Opatija, 9th round on April 16, 2002 : 1. d4 d5 2. Bg5 f6 3. Bh4 Nh6 4. Nf3 Nf5 5. Bg3 h5 6. Bf4 g5 7. Bc1 g4 8. Ng1 and all pieces are back in their starting position. Even if White lost very quickly, it must be noted that the black king is very much in danger, especially the white squares g6 and f7 on the black kingside are very weak. In the continuation of the game, the white did not succeed in exploiting these weaknesses in the black camp. This was followed by 8.… c5 9. e4 dxe4 10. d5 e6 11. Nc3 exd5 12. Qxd5 Nd4 13. Qxe4 + De7 14. Bd3 Nbc6 15. Be3 Be6 16. Nd5 Bxd5 17. Qxd5 Ne5 18. Bxd4 Nf3 + 0-1
literature
- Julian Hodgson : Foxy Openings: Trompowski Success . Grandmaster Video, 1993, VHS
- Andrew Soltis : The Trompowsky Attack 1 d4 Nf6 2 Bg5 or 1 d4 d5 2 Bg5 . Chess Digest, Dallas 1995, ISBN 0-87568-273-1 .
- Joe Gallagher : The Trompowsky . The Chess Press, Brighton 1998, ISBN 1-901259-09-9 .
- Gary Lane: Foxy Openings: Pseudo-Trompowski . Grandmaster Video, 1998, VHS
- James Plaskett: The Queen's Bishop Attack Revealed . BTBatsford, London 2005, ISBN 0-7134-8970-7 .
- John Cox: dealing with d4 deviations . Everyman Chess, London 2005, ISBN 1-85744-399-3 .
- Andrew Martin : Queen's pawn openings . Chessbase, Hamburg 2007, DVD