Saragossa Opening
The Zaragoza - opening is an opening of the chess game and created after the first white train
It is among the Closed games and is classified in the ECO codes under the key A00 as " Irregular Opening".
It is named after the Spanish city of Zaragoza. 1922 tournament was the opening theme c2 - c3, organized first in Mannheim with three participants, Siegbert Tarrasch, Paul Leonhardt and Jacques Lousy. Tarrasch won the tournament.
Opening ideas
1 c2 - c3 is first a ambitionsloser train, he opens the diagonal d1 -a4 for the lady, but he exerts little effect on the center of, namely d4 only on the field. In addition, the farmer has the disadvantage c3 that he takes the knight his natural field c3. The Zaragoza - opening can develop for white to the Caro- Kann Defence or Slav Defence with an extra tempo, which further increases the already solid defenses.
Black has a variety of response options that are natural 1 ... d7 -d5, 1 ... e7 - e5 and 1 ... Ng8 - f6. After 1 ... d7 -d5, White can the Plano Gambit 2 e2- e4? play, an unusual response to the Scandinavian Defense. After 2 ... can d5xe4 white back win with 3 Dd1 -a4 farmers, but Black is after 3 ... Sb8 - c6 4 Da4xe4 Ng8 - f6, with attack on the lady, because of the significant development projection already better.
By diverter position pictures of the Queen's Pawn Game or the Colle system can arise. After 1 ... e7 - e5 may pass into the Alekhine Defence with colors reversed white with 2 Sg1 -f3 in which the train c3 (analog c6) fits into the opening system.
Not dangerous for Black, after 1 ... d7 -d5 2 d2 -d4, the train c7 - c5? , After which the Slav Defence with colors reversed and More speed is reached for white. With 3 d4xc5 White can beat the gambit pawn and try to claim 4 b2- b4 with him after, say, 3 ... e7 - e6.
The Czech grandmaster Vlastimil Hort, who has opened more frequently with 1 c2 - c3 or after 1 d2 -d4 d7 -d5 2 c2 - c3, delivered in 1976 in Novi Sad against Dragoljub Velimirović the master game an interesting variant: 1 d2 - d4 c7 - c5 2 c2 - c3 d7 -d5 e7 - e6 3 d4xc5 4 b2- b4 a7 - a5 5 a2 -a3 b7 - b6 6 7 c5xb6 a5xb4 c3xb4 Lf8xb4 8 a3xb4 Ta8xa1 9 Lc1 - b2 ( see diagram). Since the Ta1 and g7 are threatened, Black has to sacrifice quality to b1. White remains a distant passed pawn and the bishop pair and is better Hort won after 29 moves.