the modern defense......

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when knight doesn't come to f6 is not KId

Originally posted by cmsMaster
Yes, he enjoys beating the crap out of me:

Game 2579064
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We have two in progress now also.

That Botvinnik Semi-Slav game is one of my favorite games I've played while on RHP! What a crazy game that was.

Originally posted by !~TONY~!
That Botvinnik Semi-Slav game is one of my favorite games I've played while on RHP! What a crazy game that was.

Definitely for me too, really insane - probably the hardest game I've ever played to analyze, it's a real beast with those queenside pawns.

David Norwood wrote an excellent book called "Winning With the Modern." For over a decade, he played 1...g6 almost exclusively. (I don't know if he plays anymore.) In the book, he points out that he saw so many of his fellow GM's get slaughtered from the Black side of the King's Indian that he was very careful to not transpose into it.