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Annotated Master GameOpening: QGD: Albin counter-gambit, Alapin variation
Annotations by: kingscrusher
From the analysis: g3 is the main line move - 792 games at cg.com - a3 has 444 Nbd2 has 251
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Annotated Master GameOpening: QGD Slav: 3.Nf3
Annotations by: Arkba
From the analysis: A slav variation of the QGD. White has a good middle game position and black is holding on. A critical pawn capture for white is ignored and the initiative switches to black who plays strongly...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: QGD: Semi-Tarrasch defence, Pillsbury variation
Annotations by: Earl of Norfolk
From the analysis: At the quadrangular tournament in St. Petersburg, 1895-96, Emanuel Lasker won a great game against Harry Nelson Pillsbury. At Cambridge Springs in 1904, Pillsbury had a chance to improve upon...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: QGD: Chigorin defence
Annotations by: SuperMac
From the analysis: Chigorin's Defence, White gains a lovely Kingside attack with both Rooks and Queen in on the action, but it's a lowly pawn on d6 that is a thorn in Blacks side.
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Annotated Master GameOpening: QGD Slav defence
Annotations by: jim42078, Lord Ptarmigan
From the analysis: This is the most exciting game of the 2006 World Championship from the first 6 games (not including the 5th "game"), as Topalov launches a kingside attack that is countered by Kramnik on the...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: QGD Slav: 3.Nf3
Annotations by: Paul Georghiou
From the analysis: This game shows just how boring the chess of super grandmasters can be when they can't be bothered to make a fight of it!
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Annotated Master GameOpening: QGD: Semi-Tarrasch defence, Pillsbury variation
Annotations by: Earl of Norfolk
From the analysis: Following the Hastings tournament of 1895, the St. Petersburg Chess Club organised a quadrangular tournament, inviting Emanuel Lasker, Harry N. Pillsbury, Mikhail Tschigorin, and Wilhelm...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: QGD: Cambridge Springs defence, Bogoljubow variation
Annotations by: Earl of Norfolk
From the analysis: Siegbert Tarrasch of Germany (1862-1934) was the principle spokeman for the Classical School of Chess. Amongst his various pronouncements was his theory of the Queen's Gambit Declined. He...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: QGD: Marshall defence
Annotations by: EnasYorl
From the analysis: A quickie from the 2004 Women's Olympiad. Black blunders badly by grabbing a hot pawn without thought for the consequences
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