Weressow opening
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Position after 1. d4 d5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bg5
The Weressow opening , sometimes referred to as the Richter-Weressow system , is an opening of the game of chess . It is one of the closed-end games , where the Queen's Pawn games and is in the ECO codes classified under the key D01.
The Weressow opening occurs after the moves 1. d2 – d4 d7 – d5 2. Nb1 – c3 Ng8 – f6 3. Bc1 – g5
The opening is named after the Soviet master player Gavriil Veressow (1912-1979), who used it several times from 1938 onwards at USSR championships. In the German-speaking world, the opening is named after Kurt Richter . Richter played the opening in the 1920s and 1930s often and was by Alfred Brinckmann one who "first thoroughly explored ."
The main plan of this opening is to move quickly e2 – e4 in order to place two pawns in the center , securing the space advantage .
Main variants
3.… Bf5 4. f3
3.… Nbd7 4. Qd2 and 4. f3 c5 5. e4 (or 5. dxc5) 5.… cxd4 (or 5.… dxe4)
3.… c6 4. Bxf6 exf6 (or 4.… gxf6) 5. e4 and 4. Qd3
3.… e6 4. e4 leads to the French defense .
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Brinckmann: Kurt Richter's best games . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1961.
bibliography
- John Jacobs: Watch Out! Veresov's Opening. Chess Digest, Dallas 1974.
- Jimmy Adams: Judge Veresov System. The Chess Player, Nottingham 1978, ISBN 0-906042-10-0 .
- Robert Bellin: Queen's Pawn: Veresov System. B. T. Batsford Ltd., London 1983, ISBN 0-7134-1877-X .
- Ken Smith, John Hall: The Veresov Attack 1 d4 d5 2 Nc3 Nf6 3 Bg5 or 1 d4 Nf6 2 Nc3 d5 3 Bg5. Chess Digest, Dallas 1994, ISBN 0-87568-251-0 .
- Joe Gallagher : Beating the Anti-King's Indians. B. T. Batsford Ltd., London 1996, ISBN 0-7134-8012-2 .
- Eduard Gufeld , Oleg Stetsko: Richter-Veresov System, The Chameleon Chess Repertoire, 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. Bg5. Thinkers' Press Inc., Davenport 1999, ISBN 0-938650-97-1 .
- Jacob Aagaard , Esben Lund : Meeting 1 d4. Everyman Chess, London 2002, ISBN 1-85744-224-5 .
- Nigel Davies : the veresov. Everyman Chess, London 2003, ISBN 1-85744-335-7 .
- John Cox: dealing with d4 deviations. Everyman Chess, London 2005, ISBN 1-85744-399-3 .
- Andrew Martin : Queen's pawn openings. Chessbase GmbH, Hamburg 2007, DVD.