Article: 3266 of rec.games.chess.analysis Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.analysis Path: info!dregis From: dregis@exeter.ac.uk (D.Regis) Subject: Re: What is Noteboom variation ? Message-ID: Organization: University of Exeter, UK. References: <51868d$sft@sanjuan.islandnet.com> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:31:50 GMT >Overlord@chessworks.com (Eric Schiller) wrote: > >>I am wrestling with this and other nomenclature issues for some work in >>progress. They are not easy questions. I think Abrahams needs credit for >>the main line, Noteboom for the general approach, i.e., a Semi-Slav >>without ...Nf6 and with the capture at c4. There is an excellent article by Tim Harding at http://www.chesscafe.com/KIB2.ASC I found it didn't display well on my browser because it didn't have line ends but I think it has the sort of content you are looking for. The Kibitzer by Tim Harding NOTEBOOM OR ABRAHAMS: WHOSE VARIATION IS IT ANYWAY? How to name variation- after their true originator or after the person who introduced them to master practice or the place where it was first played or on some other principle? 8x------------------------------------------- huge snip --------------x8 The question of who should be given the credit remains unclear. Before you can say who introduced the variation into master practice, you have to decide what move (or group of linked moves) constitutes the variation because clearly 4...dxc4 followed rapidly by one or more poor or inconsistent moves does not make a true anticipation of the variation. Nimzovich was after all not the first person to play 3...Bb4 after 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3 Nc3 and there are several other such cases. It is also a little unfair to disqualify Abrahams on the grounds that his game with Allcock does not count as introducing the variation into master practice, his victory over Ragozin being 16 years too late, when he was after all analysing and playing the line in the intervening years. In practical terms, however, I think that the Dutch have been allowed to win this argument by default! As a postscript, I found the following game by Alekhine in one of the databases at the Pitt.edu ftp site. Does anybody know the source of it or who was Black? Alekhine-Amateur, Paris 1928: 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.Nf3 dxc4 5.a4 Nd7? 6.e4 Bb4 7.Bxc4 Qa5 8.Bd2 e5 9.0-0 exd4 10.Nxd4 Qc5 11.Bxf7+ Kxf7 12.Qb3+ Ke8 13.Ne6 Qe5 14.Bf4 Nc5 15.Qxb4 Qxe6 16.Qxc5 Ne7 17.Rfe1 Ng6 18.Nd5 b6 19.Qc3 Kf7 20.Nc7 Qg4 21.Bg3 Rb8 22.h3 Qd7 23.Rad1 Qe7 24.Bd6 Qf6 25.e5 Qf5 26.e6+ Bxe6 27.Nxe6 1-0. -- May your pieces harmonise with your Pawn structure and your sacrifices be sound in all variations D _ / "()/~ Dave Regis &8^D* WWW: http://www.ex.ac.uk/~dregis/DR/chess.html || \_/| = DrDave on BICS ~\ / "...what else exists in the world but chess?" _|||__SHEU: ~/sheu.html -- NABOKOV From info!dregis Mon Sep 23 13:49:14 BST 1996