A World Champion's Repertoire against the Queen's Gambit Declined mix plastik or when White avoids a

or when White avoids a Benko or Benoni

Chapter 9 - Var

Together they travelled from New Jersey to Budapest

Artur Yusupov was given access to Dvoretsky's famous card files

13 8 Be2: Various 8th Moves

A World Champion's Repertoire against the Queen's Gambit Declined mix plastik or when White avoids aIn the 1950s, World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik made the Exchange Variation in the Queen's Gambit Declined a dangerous weapon. Moving the knight to e2 and castle short was revolutionary at the time. Previously, White played his knight to f3 to launch a minority attack on the queenside later, or placed the knight to e2 to castle long and launch a pawn storm on the kingside. Later, Garry Kasparov followed in the footsteps of his mentor Botvinnik and