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The Modern Defense (also known as the Robatsch Defence after Karl Robatsch) is a hypermodern chess opening in which Black allows White to occupy the center with pawns on d4 and e4, then proceeds to attack and undermine this "ideal" center without attempting to occupy it. The Modern Defense usually starts with the opening moves: 1. e4 g6
His books included an autobiography, translated by Bernard Cafferty as Grandmaster Geller at the Chessboard (1969). This was later updated and reissued in 1983 under the title The Application of Chess Theory, and contains 100 well-annotated games. Former champion Botvinnik stated that, in his opinion, Geller was the best player in the world in ...
Short title: Frontier defense on the upper Ohio, 1777-1778 : compiled from the Draper manuscripts in the library of the Wisconsin Historical Society and pub. at the charge of the Wisconsin Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
Alekhine's Defence is a chess opening that begins with the moves: . 1. e4 Nf6. Black tempts White's pawns forward to form a broad pawn centre, with plans to undermine and attack the white structure later in the spirit of hypermodern defence.
A distinction is usually drawn between the Pirc and lines where Black delays the development of his knight to f6, or omits it altogether; this is known as the Modern or Robatsch Defence. The tenth edition of Modern Chess Openings (1965) grouped the Pirc and Robatsch together as the "Pirc–Robatsch Defense".
The Slav Defense is a chess opening that begins with the moves: . 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6. The Slav is one of the primary defenses to the Queen's Gambit.Although it was analyzed as early as 1590, it was not until the 1920s that it started to be explored extensively, although Steinitz essayed it in the first official World Chess Championship of 1886.
Michel Heller (Russian: Михаил Яковлевич Геллер, romanized: Mikhail Yakovlevich Geller, August 31, 1922, Mogilev, Byelorussian SSR – January 3, 1997, Paris, France) was a Russian historian, journalist and critic. Author of several books that explore different aspects of Russian history and literature of the Soviet period ...
The Four Pawns Attack in the King's Indian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the moves: . 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f4. White immediately builds up a large pawn centre in order to gain a spatial advantage.