Trompowsky Attack

The Trompowsky opening, now known as Trompowsky Attack is a chess opening. The Trompowsky opening one of the closed-end games and starts with 1.d4 Nf6 2.Lg5 the trains.

In the ECO codes Trompowsky opening under the key A45 is classified.

The namesake of the opening

The opening is named after the Brazilian Octávio Trompowsky ( 1897-1984 ). He became in 1939 Master of Brazil through a competition victory over Walter Oswaldo Cruz and represented his country at two Chess Olympiads in 1936 and 1939.

Trompowsky played "his" opening regularly in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. The opening of an international audience became known as Trompowsky applied them to the Chess Olympiad 1936 in Munich against Alexander Kiprow.

" Trompowski " or " Trompovsky " (as it says in the title Trompovsky attack the opening monograph by Wolfgang Gerstner FM ) are common misspellings of his name.

Importance of opening up

Many players use the Trompowsky attack to go to the extensive theory of Indian defenses out of the way.

The Trompowsky attack has become popular only in the course of the 1990s to the Grand Master level. One of the grand masters who play or played him more often, include, for example, Julian Hodgson, Michael Adams and Igor Miladinović.

Main variants

The main 1.d4 Nf6 2.Lg5 sequels are:

  • White stands ready to miss a doubled pawns on f6 the black. Therefore, black gives way to often with 2 ... Ne4. 3.Lh4 3 ... c5 4.f3 (or 4.Sd2 ) 4 .. g5 5.fxe4 gxh4 with an unclear position. 4 Dd3 is Qb6! 5.b3 dh6! 6.Sf3 Dc1 7.Dd1 Db2 8.Sbd2 Sxd2 9.Sxd2 Qxd4 refuted.
  • 3 ... d5 4.f3 g5 (or 4 .. Sd6 ) 5.fxe4 gxh4 6.exd5 Qxd5 7.Sc3 Qa5
  • 3 ... g5 4.f3 gxh4 5.fxe4 with an unclear position.
  • 2 ... Ne4 3.h4 3 ... d5 4.Sd2 Bf5 6.f3 h6 5.Sxe4 Lxe4 7.fxe4 hxg5 with an unclear position.
  • 3 ... c5 4.dxc5 (or 4.d5 ) 4 ... Qa5 ( or 4 .. Sa6 )
  • 2 ... Ne4 3.Bf4 3 ... c5 4.f3 Qa5 ( or 4 .. Nf6? 5.dxc5! Qa5 6.Dd2! Reminiscent of a Sicilian, advantageous for white position) 5.c3 Nf6 6.d5 Qb6
  • 6.Sd2 cxd4 7.Sb3 and Black are spoiled for choice: 7 .. Qf5, 7 .. Qd8, 7 .. Qb6
  • 4.e3 ( with the idea 5.Ld3 6.Lxe4 )
  • 4 Nd2
  • 4.f3 Nf6 5.e4? 5 .. dxe4 6.Nc3 ext3 7.Sxf3 and produce the Blackmar - Diemer Gambit with extra tempo for White. Therefore, it is advised to 6 ... Nd5. After practically forced 7 Nxd5 Qxd5 the lady is safe in the center.
  • 5 .. e6 7.Be3 c5 8.c3 Sfd7 6 e5 9.f4 Nc6 gives position images similar to the Steinitz Variation in Classical System of the French defense. White, however, has not yet developed his knight b1 and could therefore lend support to its center with c3. But on 9 ... Qb6 now lacks the active defense Sa4.
  • 2 ... c5 3.Lxf6 gxf6 4.d5 Qb6 and pressure against b2 by f5 together with Bg7
  • 3.Nc3 cxd4 Nc6 4.Dxd4 5.Dh4 with initiative.
  • 3.d5 3 ... Qb6 4.Nc3 Qb6 6.e4 d6 7.f4 Qxb2 5.Bd2 with assault (where 7 .. e5 is probably best).
  • 3 ... Ne4 Qb6 4.Lf4
  • 2 ... e6 3.e4 3 ... d5 4.e5 h6 5.Le3 Sfd7 6.f4 with similar transition in position images of Steinitz Variation in Classical System of the French defense.
  • 3 ... h6 4.Lxf6 Qxf6 5.Sf3 goes to the Torre Attack.
  • 5.Nc3 Bb4?
  • Have independent significance: 5.c3, 5.Dd2, 5.Dd3
  • 2 ... d5 ( The same is true for 2 ... g6/d6/c6/h6 ) 3.Lxf6 exf6 4.e3
  • Gxf6 4.c4 and White receives each of the pair of bishops weakened Black's pawn structure. It is not clear whether this exchange promises an advantage in the Russian space shall be deemed compensation variant.

Bibliography

  • Robert Bellin: Trompowski Opening and Torre Attack. B. T. Batsford Ltd. , London 1983, ISBN 0-7134-2399-4
  • Allan Savage: The Anti- Indian, Trompowski 's Attack. Thinker's Press, Davenport, IA. 1984, 58 pages.
  • Jimmy Adams: Trompowsky Attack. The Chess Player, Nottingham 1986.
  • Heribert Franke: Queen's Pawn Games. Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-440-05602-3
  • Andrew Soltis: The Trompowsky d4 Nf6 2 Bg5 Attack 1 d4 d5 2 Bg5 or 1. Chess Digest, Dallas 1995, ISBN 0-87568-273-1
  • Wolfgang Gerstner: The Trompovsky attack in the Queen's Pawn Game. Chess Professional Publishing Reinhold Dreier, Ludwigshafen, 1995, ISBN 3-929376-18-0
  • Julian Hodgson: Secrets of the Trompovsky. Hodgson Enterprises, London 1997, ISBN 0-9529373-2-8
  • Joe Gallagher: The Trompowsky. The Chess Press, Brighton 1998, ISBN 1-901259-09-9
  • Karl- Otto Jung: With Trompowsky and Torre attack to victory, Volume 1: The repertoire. New Jung- Verlag, Homburg 2003, ISBN 3-933648-20-3
  • Karl- Otto Jung: With Trompowsky and Torre attack to victory, Volume 2: The Theory. New Jung- Verlag, Homburg 2003, ISBN 3-933648-21-1
  • Peter Wells: Winning with the Trompowsky. B. T. Batsford Ltd. , London 2003, ISBN 0-7134-8795- X
  • Nigel Davies: the Trompowsky. Everyman Chess, London 2005, ISBN 1-85744-376-4

Repertoire books from the perspective of the second player against the Trompowsky Attack:

  • Joe Gallagher: Beating the Anti- King's Indians. B. T. Batsford Ltd. , London 1996, ISBN 0-7134-8012-2 ( pages 111-136 treat the Repertoirezug 2 .. Se4 )
  • John Cox: dealing with d4 Deviations, fighting the Trompowsky, Torre, Blackmar - Diemer, Stonewall, Colle and other problem- openings Public. Everyman Chess, London 2005, ISBN 1-85744-399-3 ( pages 10-32 deal with the Repertoirezug 2 .. e6)
  • Yelena Dembo: fighting the anti- King's Indians, how to handle White's tricky ways of Avoiding the mainlines. Everyman Chess, London 2008, ISBN 978-1-85744-575-6 ( pages 7-44 treat the Repertoirezug 2 .. c5)
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3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad Michael Adams (chess player) Nigel Davies (chess player)
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