Play the Dutch (McDonald,2010).pdf

Neil McDonald

play the Dutch

an opening repertoire for Black based on the Leningrad Variation

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Contents

Preface

I ntrod uction

1 Gambit Lines and Early Oddities

2 White Plays 2 b C3

3 7

3 White Plays 2 .gs

4 White Avoids an early g2-g3 against a Leningrad Set-up

5 Sidelines in the Leningrad Variation

6 The Main Line Leningrad: 7 b c3 c6

115

7 The Main Line Leningrad: 7 b c3 b c6

140

8 The Dutch versus 1 b f3 and 1 c4

155

Index of Variations

1 7 2

Index of Games

17 4

Preface

It is an appealing feature of the Dutch that 1 .. .fS can be played against virtually

any opening move apat rom 1 e4.

However, this is slightly misleading if it suggests that you only have to learn

one basic sequence of moves ater 1 .. .fS and then you are ready for anything. In

reality the Dutch leads to a range of pawn structures, each of which requires its

own special treatment. For example, this book is built around the Leningrad

Dutch, but in many cases Black will do best to set up a Stonewall centre with ... d7-

dS, rather than play the 'characteristic' ...d7-d6 Leningrad move.

Likewise ater 2 JC3, 2 tgs and other early divergences by White, the pawn

structure has little, or sometimes nothing at all, in common with the traditional

Leningrad Dutch. Thus at times the centre is characteristic of the Queen's Gambit;

at other times the King's Indian; and ater 2 tgs it feels like a strange Sicilian

Hedgehog!

So more preparation is required to play the opening than is apparent at first

glance, when 1 . . .fS appears such a great labour-saving device. On the plus side you

are going to have more un playing the Dutch - its variety means you aren't going

to grow bored of it any time soon.

In view of the range of possibilities ater l...fS, can we say that there is any one

strategic theme that runs through the opening? I find the varied adventures of

Black's f-pawn the most intriguing aspect of the opening. The pawn is cast for

ward irretrievably into the world on move one, and ends up performing varied

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