The Scandinavian Defence: Winning with Qd6 and g6

By Marek Soszynski

Fresh analysis from Black's perspective plus annotated games of the enterprising Qd6+g6 systems of the Scandinavian Defence 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qd6 4.d4 Nf6 (4...g6 Kurajica Variation) 5.Nf3 g6 (Czebe Variation). The choice of several Grandmasters who wish to stretch theory and unsettle their opponents.

• Language: English
• Publisher: MarekMedia
• Release date: Nov 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215268452

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The Scandinavian Defence: Winning with Qd6 and g6

Marek Soszynski

© MarekMedia

First edition 17th November 2022

Contents

About the Author

Other chess works by the author

Preface

Introductory Moves: 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qd6 4.d4

4...g6 or 4...Nf6 first?

Kurajica Variation: 4...g6

Czebe Variation: 4...Nf6 5.Nf3 g6

Position after 5...g6

I. 6.Nb5

II. 6.g3

III. 6.Bc4

IV. 6.Ne5

V. 6.Be2

VI. 6.h3

VII. 6.Bg5

Annotated Games

Game 1: Csoke-Horvath, Gyula 1993

Game 2: Berczes-Czebe, Balatonlelle 2006

Game 3: De la Cruz Sanchez-Epishin, El Sauzal 2008

Game 4: Carlsen-Kramnik, Moscow 2009

Game 5: Dominguez Perez-Kramnik, Moscow 2009

Game 6: Van Oosterom-Chatalbashev, Plovdiv 2010

Game 7: Friedel-Tomczak, Rostock 2011

Game 8: Roganovic-Milanovic, Valjevo 2011

Game 9: Espinoza Palomino-Kurajica, Las Palmas 2013

Game 10: Zubarev-Vakhidov, Tashkent 2013

Game 11: Yilmazyerli-Kovchan, Albena 2015

Game 12: Medarde Santiago-Kantans, Arteixo 2015

Game 13: Praggnanandhaa-Potapov, Moscow 2016

Game 14: Khamisi-Tiviakov, Hamedan 2016

Game 15: Babikov-Rakhmanov, Sochi 2016

Game 16: Grandelius-Xiong, Wijk aan Zee 2017

Game 17: Cunningham-Gray, ICCF 2018

Game 18: Varela La Madrid-Grigoryan, Benasque 2022

Selected Bibliography

Signs & Symbols

Afterword

About the Author

Marek Soszynski is a master twice over: a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and a Correspondence Chess Master (CCM) with an International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF) rating of over 2300. He writes on ― what else? ― philosophy and chess. He lives in the city where he was born, Birmingham, England.

Other chess works by the author

Konikowski, Jerzy, and Marek Soszynski. 2005. The Fearsome Four Pawns Attack (Milford: Russell Enterprises)

Konikowski, Jerzy, and Marek Soszynski. 2009. 1.b4 Theory & Practice of the Sokolsky Opening (Milford: Russell Enterprises)

Konikowski, Jerzy, and Marek Soszynski. 2018. Sabotaging the Sicilian, French & Caro-Kann with 2.b3 (Milford: Russell Enterprises)

Konikowski, Jerzy, and Marek Soszynski. 2022. The Polish Defense: Systems for Black Based on ...b5 (Milford: Russell Enterprises)

Przewoznik, Jan, and Marek Soszynski. 2001. How to Think in Chess (Milford: Russell Enterprises)

Przewoznik, Jan, and Marek Soszynski, trans. by Nadine Sickermann. 2004. Como pensar em xadrez (Rio de Janeiro: Ciencia Moderna)

Soszynski, Marek. 2018. The Great Reshevsky: Chess Prodigy and Old Warrior (Forward Chess)

Soszynski, Marek. 2020. The Centre Game Re-examined: 1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.Qxd4 (MarekMedia)

Soszynski, Marek. 2022. The Scandinavian Defence: Winning with 2...Nf6: A Chess Repertoire for Black (MarekMedia) [A slightly expanded edition is being prepared for late 2022/early 2023.]

Preface

Chess opening repertoires occupy entire books or sets of books, or several hours of multimedia, and dozens if not hundreds of annotated games. The amount to study is huge; the amount you seem required to remember for over-the-board play will certainly exceed your capabilities. So, there's something attractive about being able to describe to a fellow chessplayer a repertoire against 1.e4 in a short phrase: The Scandinavian Defence with Qd6 and g6. And then? And then you continue