Article: 4486 of rec.games.chess.analysis Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.analysis Path: info!dregis From: dregis@exeter.ac.uk (D.Regis) Subject: Re: Grob Attack Message-ID: Organization: University of Exeter, UK. References: <57kmuh$408@News.Dal.Ca> Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 14:17:44 GMT In article <57kmuh$408@News.Dal.Ca> ab276@chebucto.ns.ca (Robert MacAusland) writes: >Could some kind soul please post a sample sequence of play involving the >Grob Attack? After 1.g4 the play could go anywhere! Some better-established sequences: The main line gambit with 1. g4 d5 2. Bg2 Bxg4 3. c4 is often people's first introduction to the line, and may be better for White because of the weakness on b7: White has Qb3 coming. 1. g4 d5 2. Bg2 c6 is a solid response. White can play 3. h3 and after 3...e5 go 4. d4 since after 4...exd4 5. Qxd4 Black doesn't have 5...Nc6. So 4...e4! 5. c4! when we have something that is a little like a reversed Sicilian but White is rather loose on the King's-side. This is how Basman played it, but Grob more often went for 4.d3 and e4. 1. g4 d5 2. Bg2 c6 3. g5 may be annoying for Black's Knight on g8, but 3...e5, 4...Bd6, 5...Ne7 untangles. 1. g4 d5 2. Bg2 e5 is natural for Black although less solid. After 3. c4 Black can return to the line above with 3...c6 or play more ambitiously with 3...d4, intending to put the b8 Knight on c6. Basman has shown that the Grobber can sometimes get good control of e4 because Black cannot hit it with ...f5. A clever idea for Black is 1. g4 e5 2. Bg2 h5! which splits the White Pawns (played by Grob himself). So 1. g4 e5 2. d3! has been recommended by Bloodgood. Grob futures: 1...e6, 1...g6, 1...c5 and 1...Nf6 are all under-rehearsed! -- 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 Fri Dec 6 09:22:36 GMT 1996