Keres Defence

The kangaroo defense or Keres Defense is a chess opening is initiated by the moves 1.d2 e6 2.c2 d4 e7 - c4 - b4 Bf8. The King Bishop is compared here with a bouncing kangaroo.

The master game seems Lowenthal - Buckle from 1851 to his ( Result 0:1 ). The train 2 ... Bb4 was used occasionally by the Estonian grandmaster Paul Keres. Therefore, it is propagated Keres defense of the proponents of this variant for the name. More recently, Tony Miles turned and especially the Ukrainian grandmaster Vereslav Eingorn 2 ... Bb4 to.

After 2 ... Bb4 are still transpositions to other openings possible. White can respond to this black train with 3 Nb1 - c3, Nb1 -d2 -d2 or Lc1. By 3 Nb1 - c3 - f6 Ng8 created the Nimzowitsch - Indian Defence. The game goes on in a Dutch defense by f7 - f5.

On 3 Lc1 -d2 Black takes either the intervening Asked figure or plays 3 ... Qd8 - e7, c7 - c5 or 3 ... 3 ... a7 - a5. Then Sg1 -f3 and f6 - Ng8 passes over respectively in the Bogolyubov - Indian Defence. Eingorn preferred 3 ... a7 - a5. After 3 ... c7 - c5 4 Ld2xb4 c5xb4 presents Black 's center pawns on black squares (d6 and e5). If White d4 -d5 pulls, Schwarz receives thanks to the advanced farmers b4 c5 on a field for one of his jumpers. This Sc5 suppressed from there against e4 and controlled the women's wing, then gets a space advantage on the black. In this constellation tried thus reached by White a3 to crack the space advantage and open the a-file for his rook.

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