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and White mates in three (19.Nh6+ double check Kh8 20.Qg8+ Rxg8 21.Nf7#). [1] [2] Cochrane published a book reporting his games with Moheshchunder and other Indians in 1864.It gained popularity after Ernst Grünfeld introduced it into international play at the Bad Pistyan Tournament 7-28 April 1922, where, in his first game with the defense, he drew Friedrich Sämisch in 22 moves. [3]
The variation's most devoted practitioner has been its eponym, Ashot Nadanian.Various famous players such as Viktor Korchnoi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Bu Xiangzhi, Alexander Riazantsev, Igor Lysyj, Walter Browne, Smbat Lputian, Timur Gareyev, Jonathan Rowson, Andrei Kharlov, Bogdan Lalić have employed it at some time or another, though few have made it their main line against the Grünfeld ...
Among his recorded games is the first instance of Gruenfeld Defence, more than 60 years before Ernst Grünfeld was to launch it against Alekhine at Vienna, 1922: John Cochrane vs. Moheschunder Bannerjee, May 1855 (in PGN format) [Event "Introduction to Gruenfeld defence"]
The Hypermodern school of chess theory came to prominence in the 1920s. Leading members were Aron Nimzowitsch, Richard Réti, Savielly Tartakower, Gyula Breyer, Efim Bogoljubov, and Ernst Grünfeld, who all came from Central Europe. [3] They felt that chess was becoming boring, slow, and not worthwhile.
Gruenfeld is deaf, but is able to speak, however hoarsely, and can read lips. He played in 5 Olympiads (from 2010 to 2018) on the first board for the International Chess Committee of the Deaf team. He claimed gold medal in the men's blitz event at the 2019 Winter Deaflympics where chess was officially included as a medal sport for the first ...
In chess, an exchange variation is a type of opening in which there is an early, voluntary exchange of pawns or pieces. Such variations are often quieter than other lines because the early release of tension minimizes the possibility of surprise tactics or sharp, forcing lines, particularly where it results in a symmetrical pawn structure.
Ernst Grünfeld (1893–1962), Austrian chess grandmaster and chess writer; Heinrich Grünfeld (1855–1931), Bohemian-Austrian violoncellist; Henry Grunfeld (1904–1999), merchant banker; Isidor Grunfeld (1900–1975), dayan and author; Nina Grunfeld (born 1954), British writer, journalist, public speaker, and entrepreneur
The Queen's Indian Defense [1] (QID) is a chess opening defined by the moves: . 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6. The opening is a solid defense to the Queen's Pawn Game. [2] 3...b6 increases Black's control over the central light squares e4 and d5 by preparing to fianchetto the queen's bishop, with the opening deriving its name from this maneuver.