The Grünfeld Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 Black offers White the possibility of 4.cxd5, which may...

game, Moheschunder (Black) plays the Grünfeld Defence against Cochrane in 1855—some 38 years before Ernst Grünfeld was born. John Cochrane vs. Moheschunder...

line D80 Grünfeld Defence D81 Grünfeld, Russian Variation D82 Grünfeld, 4.Bf4 D83 Grünfeld Gambit D84 Grünfeld Gambit Accepted D85 Grünfeld, Nadanian...

etc.) Grünfeld Defence Queen's Pawn Game, etc. (other than Grünfeld Defence and Old Indian Defence) Nimzo-Indian Defence Queen's Indian Defence King's...

tournament of April 1922 Grünfeld introduced his most important contribution to opening theory—the Grünfeld Defence. He played the defence against Friedrich...

The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the following moves: 1. e4 c5 The Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's...

Nf6 2. c4 g6 Black intends to follow up with 3...Bg7 and 4...d6 (the Grünfeld Defence arises when Black plays 3...d5 instead and is considered a separate...

(diagram) The game has now transposed to the Grünfeld Defence (5...d5, ECO code D92), in a line with Bf4. The Grünfeld is usually initiated by 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4...

Petrov's Defence or the Petrov Defence (also called Petroff Defence, Petrov's Game, Russian Defence, or Russian Game – Russian: Русская партия) is a chess...

The Nimzowitsch Defence (named after Aron Nimzowitsch) is a somewhat uncommon chess opening characterised by the moves: 1. e4 Nc6 This opening is an example...

The Philidor Defence (or Philidor's Defence) is a chess opening characterised by the moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 The opening is named after the famous 18th-century...

reach a Grünfeld, instead more or less forcing them into lines of the King's Indian Defence with 3...d6. Black also cannot force a Grünfeld with 1.c4...

The Pirc Defence (/ˈpɪərts/ PEERTS) is a chess opening characterised by the response of Black to 1.e4 with 1...d6 and 2...Nf6, followed by ...g6 and ...

Declined (after 3...e6), the Slav Defence (after 3...c6), the Queen's Gambit Accepted (after 3...dxc4) or the Grünfeld Defence (after 3...g6). This article...

The Nadanian Variation (sometimes called the Nadanian Attack) of the Grünfeld Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3...

(Russian Defence) 5...Bc5 (Møller Defence) 5...b5 6.Bb3 Bb7 (Arkhangelsk Defence) 5...b5 6.Bb3 Bc5 (Modern Arkhangelsk Defence) 5...Nxe4 (Open Defence) In...

The Dutch Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: 1. d4 f5 Black's 1...f5 stakes a claim to the e4-square and envisions an attack in the...

The Nimzo-Indian Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 Other move orders, such as 1.c4 e6 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.d4...

Owen's Defence (also known as the Queen's Fianchetto Defence) is an uncommon chess opening defined by the moves: 1. e4 b6 By playing 1...b6, Black prepares...

The French Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: 1. e4 e6 This is most commonly followed by 2.d4 d5. Black usually plays ...c5 soon after...

0-0. Black's pawn structure (pawns on e6 and c6) resemble a Caro–Kann Defence structure, therefore many Caro–Kann players wishing to expand their repertoire...

Stefan; Pantaleoni, Claudio (2009). Chess Opening Essentials, Vol. 3: Indian Defences. New In Chess. ISBN 978-90-5691-270-3. Norwood, David (1995). The Modern...

The Modern Defense (also known as the Robatsch Defence after Karl Robatsch) is a hypermodern chess opening in which Black allows White to occupy the center...

Grünfeld, Grunfeld, or Gruenfeld may refer to: Deborah H. Gruenfeld, American social psychologist Yehuda Gruenfeld (born 1956), Israeli chess Grandmaster...

placed. Additional options for Black include Slav-type structures (d5/c6), Grünfeld-type structures (Nf6/g6/Bg7/d5), reversed Torre Attack (d5/Nf6/Bg4), Chigorin-type...

openings now called Indian Defence. An even greater contribution from him is the hugely complicated and popular Grünfeld Defence which was first introduced...

The Caro–Kann Defence is a chess opening characterised by Black responding to e4 with c6. Thus: 1. e4 c6 The Caro–Kann is a common defence against the King's...

also won Game 2 with a new idea for White in Kasparov's favourite Grünfeld Defence, which Kramnik discovered during training with Boris Gelfand a year...

players moved away from symmetrical openings, tending to use an Indian Defence to combat queen pawn openings; however, it is still frequently played....

Gambit (or simply Morra Gambit) is an opening gambit against the Sicilian Defence distinguished by the moves: 1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. c3 White sacrifices...