Letsplaychess.com presents Anti Gruenfeld

A chess game with 4.f3 against the Gruenfeld defence.

[Event "interne 2008"]
[Date "2008.11.26"]
[White "Majnu Michaud"]
[Black "Hans Nijland"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D80"]
[PlyCount "41"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. f3 Bg7 5. e4 dxc4 6. Bxc4 O-O 7. Be3 b6 8. Nge2
Ba6 9. Bxa6 Nxa6 10. Qa4 Qc8 11. e5 Nd7 12. Nd5 Re8 13. Rc1 e6 14. Ndc3 c5 15.
Ne4 Bf8 16. Qxd7 Qxd7 17. Nf6+ Kg7 18. Nxd7 Nb4 19. O-O Nxa2 20. Ra1 Nb4 21.
Rfc1 1-0

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[xclosertotheheartx]

hola majnu2006, eres tu gatonegro?

[Majnu2006]

Hola Marco. Si señor, nos conocemos.

Saludos a mi tierra.

[vibovitold]

Majnu, wouldn't you consider posting the PGN of the commented game in the video description? Just as Kingscrusher began to do. That would make it easy to paste the game into Fritz or some other program and see a few things for ourselves, play out some variations, find out what engines think to be major blunders etc. It is a very instructive video nevertheless - thanks!

[Majnu2006]

Good idea!

Done.

[noxure]

@dmed312 Moving the f-pawn isn't always a problem if you're castling kingside. You have to keep a strong d-pawn to guard that checking line and you can always just simply make a pre-emptive move to h1 or h8 if things get messy.

The advantage is that you already have a rook on the f-file supporting your pawn and it can lead to all sorts of brutal attacks.

I agree that the f3 move here probably isn't the best opening move but it looks playable enough and it has an element of surprise. :)

[noxure]

That f3 move looks interesting but after giving it some thought I think c5 would be a good way to continue for black.  It goes after the d-pawn and white can't get away dxc5 unpunished.

[dmed312]

4.f3 looks like a mistake simply because it moves your pawn in front of your king, allowing for more exposure once you castle. I think your opponent could have had a better game if he didn't take on c4 in the beginning.

[MrZingnigga]

hate playing as white against the grunfeld. i do like the idea of getting black out of the book lines early, but i don't know if 4.f3 is as good as 4.e3 and settling for a kind of qgd system.

[rmarx123456]

Hi Majnu. Great video. Have you had any other games in this line recently? It would be entertaining to see some more. Also, have you had any games where black plays ...e5 to encourage d4-d5 and then played ...Bc5? If so, how did these games go? The bishop seems devastating on this diagonal when combined with ...Ng4

[moonlightgarden12am]

indeed i will have to agree with colster71...that after the move f3....c5 equalizes immediately and probably will end up giving white some trouble....of course there had to be a reason why f3 is hardly recommended as a strong point when playing against the grunfeld....but nice game regardless.....

[colster71]

f3 c5!

[colourmegone]

Thanks, very interesting since I play d4 and have run into trouble with Gruenfeld before.