Chigorin set-ups: …Nc6
Black blocks his c-pawn with …Nc6 and plays for piece activity: …Bf5, …Bg4, …Nb4 and the …e5 push. Watch c2: with your bishop gone from c1, …Nb4 together with a bishop on f5 can fork on c2. Keep it simple: trade a bishop on f5 with Bd3, meet …Bg4 with h3 once your knight is on f3, and take the e5 pawn when Black pushes it too early. Careful: before Nf3, an early …Bg4 just hangs to Qxg4 (see the Traps chapter).
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Picking up where you left off.
Five lines, one of them core:
- 2…Nc6 and …Bf5: trade on d3 (core)
- …Nf6 and …Bg4: the h3 question (important)
- …e5: the early push (important)
- 1…Nc6 2.Nf3 d5: London anyway (important)
- 1…Nc6 2.Nf3 d6: take the centre (important)
Learn takes up to five new lines at a time, core lines first. When the chapter is learned, practise it from memory.
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