When I first started playing chess in 1972 the best answers to 1.e4 were considered the Sicilian and 1 e5, with the French and Caro-Kann next, followed […]
Vladimir Kramnik may have chased Garry Kasparov away from the Grunfeld and Boris Spassky the same to Bobby Fischer, but mortals have plenty of respect for […]
Conventional wisdom holds that if White wants to play for an advantage against the French Defense, 3.Nc3 is the way to go. However, Greek IM Andreas […]