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The Chigorin Variation is one of the oldest variations of the Ruy Lopez, invented at the Monte Carlo tournament in 1902 by Carl Schlechter in his game versus Siegbert Tarrasch. Doing my research for this book I was surprised to discover that in the early years of the development of the Chigorin Variation, Black often intentionally kept his king in the centre, trying to be flexible and keeping extra options. The drawback was that White was not obliged to spend time on h2-h3, as he was on 9.h3 in a regular move order. Nevertheless this unusual more order was tried with Black by Capablanca, Lasker, Botvinnik, Euwe, Rubinstein and Reshevsky, amongst others. However, sometime in the late 1940s, this flexible plan more or less disappeared from grandmaster practice, so I did not include it in the games in this book. The player who made the greatest contribution to the Chigorin Variation in its early years was Akiba Rubinstein. According to my database Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin himself played his variation only twice, in 1906 and 1907, and it is rather surprising that the variation bears his name. In later years Paul Petrovich Keres became the great champion of the Chigorin Variation, and

Author

Ivan Sokolov; Ivn Salgado Lpez

Publisher

Thinkers Publishing

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9789492510419