Night attack

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The night attack ( Night Attack ) refers to an advancement of the white e-pawn to e6 in the opening phase with the aim of developing the characters on the black kingside to block.

designation

The term goes back to Hans Kmoch :

"Since the whole action is designed to catch the defender's forces, so to say, in their sleep, we call it the Night attack ."

- Hans Kmoch

Occurrence

The night attack is mainly played against the Caro-Kann Defense of Black, but can also occur against the Alekhine Defense . The advance of the white e-pawn on e6 in the opening is usually only possible if the black queen's bishop cannot defend the e6-square. Be it because he has already left the corresponding diagonals (Caro-Kann) or is blocked by his own knight on d7.

Game example

Maxime Vachier – Lagrave - Ding Liren
  a b c d e f G H  
8th Chess rdt45.svg Chess ndt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess qdt45.svg Chess kdt45.svg Chess bdt45.svg Chess ndt45.svg Chess rdt45.svg 8th
7th Chess pdt45.svg Chess pdt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess pdt45.svg Chess pdt45.svg Chess pdt45.svg Chess bdt45.svg 7th
6th Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess pdt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess pdt45.svg 6th
5 Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess pdt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg 5
4th Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess plt45.svg 4th
3 Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg 3
2 Chess plt45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg 2
1 Chess rlt45.svg Chess nlt45.svg Chess blt45.svg Chess qlt45.svg Chess klt45.svg Chess blt45.svg Chess nlt45.svg Chess rlt45.svg 1
  a b c d e f G H  
Position after 7. e6

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In the following game, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won with the white pieces at the Alekhine Memorial in Paris in 2013 against Ding Liren .

Maxime Vachier – Lagrave - Ding Liren 1-0
Paris, April 22, 2013
Caro-Kann Defense (Advance Variation), B12
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4 h4 h6 5. g4 LE4 6. f3 LH7 7. e6 chart Nf6 (possible alternatives would be 7 ... Dd6, 7. ... fxe6 or 7 ... c5) . 8 Bf4 Qb6 9.Nc3 Qxb2 10. Kd2 Qb6 11. Nge2 a6 12. Rb1 Da7 13.Na4 b5 14.Nc5 Bg8 15. Be5 fxe6 16.Nf4 Nbd7 17.Nxd7 Nxd7 18.Ng6 Nxe5 19.dxe5 Rh7 20.h5 c5 21. f4 Bf7 22. Qf3 0–0–0 23. Be2 c4 24. a4 Kc7 25. axb5 axb5 26. Rxb5 Qd4 + 27. Ke1 Ra8 28. Rb1 Ra2 29. c3 Qd2 + 30. Kf2 Rc2 31. De3 Qxe3 + 32. Kxe3 Rxc3 + 33. Kd4 Rc2 34. The1 Kc6 35. Rb8 Bxg6 36. hxg6 Rh8 37. Reb1 Rd2 + 38. Ke3 Ra2 39. R8b6 + 1: 0

Meaning in practice

The night attack is very rarely played in grandmaster practice.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hans Kmoch: Pawn Power in Chess . Reprint. First edition 1959 edition. Courier Corporation, 2013, ISBN 978-0-486-31969-8 , pp. 186 ff . ( google.com ).
  2. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung of May 4, 2013: Aronjan holds himself harmless