Hungarian Defense

In the Hungarian Defense is an opening of the chess game; it is one of the open-ended games.

The Hungarian defense begins with the trains

And is a possible answer of black on the Italian game.

Background

The name of the defense is based on a correspondence game, which took place from 1842 to 1845 between the leading Parisian chess masters and the Pest chess club. The Hungarian leader of black stones taught to play the game on defense. They achieved this way a closed and passive position, the opening for the white party was not connected simply and with risk.

4 d2 -d4 e5xd4

The best answer is 4 white d2 -d4, with 4 .. 5 e5xd4 Nxd4 leads to a variant of the Scottish game with space advantage for White. Weaker is 5 c2 - c3 with the hope of 5 .. d4xc3? 6 Dd1 -d5! , After which Black gave up in the game Midjord sniper at the Chess Olympiad 1974 in Nice. (Although still 6 .. Ng8 - h6 7 Lc1xh6 0-0 would have been possible: ? 8 Bh6 -c1 Nc6 - b4 9 Qd5 c3 -d1 -c2 recovers the figure, White would have to 8th Lh6xg7 Kg8xg7 play 9 Sb1xc3 to maintain his advantage. ) replies black but as recommended by Chigorin with 5 .. Nc6 - a5! , forcing White with 6 Dd1xd4 to give up his bishop pair or the loss of a farmer.

Opening Traps and short games

Freiherr von Holzhausen - Tarrasch (1912 )

The following game was played in 1912 between Walther Freiherr von Holzhausen and Siegbert Tarrasch. 4 d2 -d4 d7 - d6 e5xd4 5 0-0 6 Sf3xd4 Ng8 - f6 7 Nb1 - c3 0-0 8 h2 h3 Rf8 - e8 9 Nf6 - d7 Tf1 - e1? A treacherous own goal. Lc4xf7 10 ! Kg8xf7 11 Nd4 - e6! Here Tarrasch was already on. 11 ... 12 Kf7xe6 Dd1 -d5 Ke6 - f6 - f5 # 13 Qd5

• Chess opening