The Current Status of Queen's Pawn Game Responses to - Zuka
The Current Status of Queen's Pawn Game Responses to - Zuka
The Current Status of Queen's Pawn Game Responses to - Zuka
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<strong>Zuka</strong>: <strong>The</strong> Zuke Companion<br />
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White doesn’t have anything better than 9.Nf3, so he had<br />
<strong>to</strong> find a way <strong>to</strong> make progress without Ne5.<br />
This ...Nfd7 tactic had been known even before Summerscale’s<br />
book. Long-time Barry proponent Mark Hebden beat<br />
widely renowned opening theorist GM John Nunn in 1998<br />
by castling long after playing Qd2, Ne5, and Be3. However,<br />
Hebden evidently didn’t trust the specific continuation in<br />
that game and ran in<strong>to</strong> trouble with this line in 2005-6 as<br />
he started looking for something better. He even tried Ng1<br />
against fellow GM Jonathan Rowson. Nothing came <strong>of</strong> this<br />
experimentation and he agreed <strong>to</strong> a couple <strong>of</strong> draws from the<br />
position in 2006.<br />
In my view 7...cxd4 8.exd4 Nfd7 is the biggest issue for<br />
Barry Attack players. IMs Richard Palliser and Yelena Dembo<br />
(writing from opposite sides <strong>of</strong> the chess board) have each<br />
put more weight on the 7...Nc6 variation.<br />
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