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Position after 3. Nb1 – c3 Ng8 – f6 4. Bc1 – g5 Nb8 – d7 5. Ng1 – f3 Bf8 – b4
The Westphalia variant is an opening in the game of chess , which is part of the Queen's Gambit and therefore belongs to the closed games .
It develops from the Rejected Queen's Gambit .
The Westphalia variant (also called "Manhattan Defense" in English-speaking countries) means 1. d2 – d4 d7 – d5 2. c2 – c4 e7 – e6 3. Nb1 – c3 Ng8 – f6 4. Bc1 – g5 Nb8 – d7 5. Ng1-f3 Bf8-b4. It was named after the name of the ship on which some champions traveled to the tournament in New York in 1927 and analyzed this variant on the crossing.
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Nbd7 5. e3 Bb4 is enough to characterize it as a Westphalia variant. With this sequence of moves, the then world champion Capablanca lost a simultaneous game against the 12-year-old Botvinnik in 1925 . The game continued with 6. c4xd5 e6xd5 7. Qd1 – b3 c7 – c5 8. d4xc5 Qd8 – a5.
With the attack on point c3, it is similar to the Ragosin variant and the Cambridge Springs variant . In contrast to the Cambridge Springs variant, Black will move c7 – c5 in one go. In order to prevent the long-range effect of the planned Qa5 on Bg5, the theory recommends that White 6. c4xd5 e6xd5 . After another 7. e2 – e3 c7 – c5 8. Bf1 – d3 , on 8.… c5 – c4 or an intermediate 8.… Qd8 – a5 9. Qd1 – c2 c5 – c4, Bd3 – f5 is the response.
literature
- Mark Taimanow : Queen's Gambit to Dutch . Sportverlag, 5th edition Berlin 1980.
- Jerzy Konikowski : Modern Queen's Gambit ... played correctly , Beyer-Verlag 2004.