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  2. Exchange variation - Wikipedia

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    In the Ruy Lopez, Exchange Variation pieces (White's bishop and Black's knight) rather than pawns are traded. In the Exchange Variation of the Grunfeld Defense, both a pair of pawns and a pair of knights are traded. The diagram at right shows a position in the Exchange Variation of the French Defense, after the moves: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5

  3. Grünfeld Defence - Wikipedia

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    After 6.cxd5 Nxg5 7.Nxg5 e6, White has 8.Qd2 exd5 9.Qe3+, with attacking chances (though the interpolation 8...h6 9.Nf3 exd5 is a significant alternative), or the more usual 8.Nf3 exd5 after which play generally proceeds on lines analogous to the Queen's Gambit Declined, Exchange Variation, with a queenside minority attack by White (b2–b4 ...

  4. Grünfeld Defence, Nadanian Variation - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Marshall Defense - Wikipedia

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    The Marshall Defense is a chess opening that begins with the moves: . 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nf6?!. The Marshall Defense is a fairly dubious variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined.It was played by Frank Marshall in the 1920s, but he gave it up after losing with it to Alekhine at Baden-Baden in 1925. [1]

  6. Torre Attack - Wikipedia

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    The variation was also employed by Savielly Tartakower, Boris Spassky, and Tigran Petrosian early in his career. Other noted top-level exponents include Alexey Dreev , Pentala Harikrishna , Krishnan Sasikiran and Jan Timman .

  7. Alekhine's Defence - Wikipedia

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    The Modern Variation is the most common variation of the Alekhine Defence. As in the Exchange Variation, White accepts a more modest spatial advantage, and hopes to be able to hang on to it. There are a number of possible Black responses: 4...Bg4, pinning the knight is the most common response, which White usually parries with 5.Be2.

  8. Ruy Lopez, Exchange Variation - Wikipedia

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    The Exchange Variation of the Ruy Lopez is a chess opening that begins with the moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Bxc6. Black may recapture on c6 with either pawn; although 4...bxc6 is playable, 4...dxc6 is almost always chosen at master level. Black has gained the bishop pair at the cost of a weakened pawn structure, having doubled pawns ...

  9. Taimanov Variation - Wikipedia

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    The Taimanov Variation can refer to variations of four different chess openings, all named after Mark Taimanov: In the Sicilian Defense, 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6; In the Nimzo-Indian Defense, 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 Nc6; In the Modern Benoni, 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.e4 g6 7.f4 Bg7 8.Bb5+