Alekhine defense ed6 variation

Here Black is playing ed6 1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. c4 Nb6 5. exd6 exd6

6. Nc3 Be7 7. Bd3 Nc6 8. Nge2 Bf6

9. Be3 O-O 10. b3 Re8 11. O-O

Alireza Firouzja bullet win in Taimanov variation Aug 26 2020 Katara

 Alireza Firouzja shows us the black side of a tricky Taimanov line.

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Ndb5

6.. Qb8 7. Be3 a6 8. Bb6 !?
Black has to take it and defend.

8..axb5 9. Nxb5
-First idea 9...Ra5 10.Nc7+ Ke7 11.Qf3! Re5 12.Qa3+ d6 13.0–0–0 f6 14.Qa4. 
The queen in  this variation goes to f3 and then a3 with pressure on a3-f8 diagonal.
-The second idea is 9..Bb4+ followed by Ba5 to indirectly cover c7.
lets look at this line.
9.. Bb4+ 10. c3 Ba5 11. Nc7+

11..Qxc7 12. Bxc7 Bxc7 13. g3 Nf6 14. Bg2 O-O 
How to continue here ? Lets see Alireza Firouzja in Katara Event Aug 26 2020 win easily.

Colle-Zukertort ideas

Colle Zukertort is the system where white decides to fianchetto his dark square bishop b3,Bb2, plays e3,d4 as well as Bd3,Nbd2 and Nf3. Here is what white starts the game with

 

and in a real life game, here's the position for white where f2-f4 is also played.

Remember to play actively with White, setting the board on fire. Use the a1-h8 and b1-h7 diagonals with your bishops. Bring your knights to the kingside.

Like this :

Now lets see full games with this system with the white pieces.

here's another one

and one more example without Qc2/f5 inserted

and a final one with early Rc1 and c4-c5

Hedgehog play with White

We will study how to play against Hedgehog formation with White Pieces.

 1e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3 Qb6 6. Nb3 Qc7 7. O-O Nf6 8. c4 d6 9. Nc3 Nbd7 10. Be3 b6 11. Rc1 Bb7 12. Qd2 Be7 



  


We reached a standard position.

Black has a6,b6, and d6,e6 structure. Knights on d7 and f6, Bishops on B7 and e7.

White has Nb3,Nc3,Be3,Bd3,Rc1 and Qd2. pawns on e4 and c4. f3 to support e4 Maroczy bind.

What is next for White ?  Play on the queen side. Bring the queen to f2, with Be3-Qf2 targetting b6.
bring Rf1 to d1, bishop to f1, play h3 to avoid Ng4. Then push pawns.

Black adopts Fischer plan with Bishop on d8-c7.

13. Rfd1 O-O 14. f3 Rac8 15. Bf1 Rfe8 16. Qf2 Bd8 17. h3 Qb8 

Now White wants to move Nb3 here to d4 and activate b2-b4,then Nb3-a4

18. Nd4 Bc7 19. Kh1 Ne5 20. b4 Ba8 21. Nb3 Ned7 22. Na4 Bc6

We reach another key moment after 22..Bc6.

Game 1: Na4-b2 followed by a4-a5

Game 2:Na4-c3 followed by b4-b5 and e4-e5

Opening Traps : Sicilian Defense

Here I want to cover 2 openings

1 e4 c5 2 d4 cd4 3c3 Morra-Smith Gambit . Morra was a french player from Nice,France (1900-1969) who studied the opening and played it in correspondence games. 

 1e4 c5 2Nf3 Nc6 3Bb5 is the Rossolimo (You could play Bb5 against d6 as well).

and here you could see 21 lines containing many traps and quick wins in the morra gambit as well as in the Rossolimo opening.

repertoire spanish game white 5 Qe2

Position after 9 Bg5!

White to play (11th move)

White to play ( 18th move) 

[White "Tiviakov"][Black "Almasi"]

[White "Tiviakov"] [Black "Almasi"] [Event "Wijk Aan Zee"] [Date "1995.??.??"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. Qe2 b5 6. Bb3 Bc5 7. c3 d6 8. d3 0-0 9. Bg5 Be6 10. Nbd2 Qe7 11. Bd5! Bxd5 12. exd5 Nb8 13. Ne4 Nbd7 14. Nh4! h6 15. Nf5 Qd8 16. Bh4 Kh7 17. Qf3 Rh8 18. g4! Kg8 19. Nxg7! Kxg7 20. Rg1 Nxe4 21. Bxd8 Bxf2+ 22. Ke2 Bxg1 23. dxe4 Bxh2 24. Bxc7 Bf4 25. Bxd6 f6 26. a4 Nb6 27. b3 bxa4 28. Bc7 *

Replay Game here