Verifying Schandorff-Playing 1.d4 The Indian Defences

Schandorff proposes 4.e3 against the Nimzo-Indian with 5.Nge2 in Playing 1.d4 The Indian Defences(Qualith Chess 2012).

See QualityChess Playing_1.d4_-_The_Indian_Defences

His key games are,

Game	Line			Tournament	Year
1	4…Nc6	Botvnnik	Taimanov	Moscow(4)	1952
2	4…c5	Botvnnik	Smyslov	Moscow(5)	1952
3	4…0-0	Botvnnik	Keres	Hague/Moscow	1948
4	4…b6	Aronian	Istratescu	Antalya	2004
5	4…b6	Ugge	Hall	Corr	2003
6	4…c5	Popov,S	Savic	Mataruska Banja	2007
7	4…c5	Najer	Mitenkov	Moscow	1996
8	4…c5	Sasvari	Kunzelmann	Corr	2005
9	4…0-0	Iljushin	Murzin	Togliatti	2001
10	4…0-0	Ivanisevic	Gyimesi	Bihac	2010
11	4…0-0	Ponomariov	Kramnik	Wijk aan Zee	2003
12	4…0-0	Astroem	Yarshenko	Corr	1997

I verified game 4 where Schandorff proposes the aggressive 8.Qf3/9.g4 plan. White imposed a sharp game in the 2004 Aronian stem game. I found some independant improements and present these findings.

My first outing with 4.e3 did not go so well so now additional work must be done to upgrade my knowledge level. This analysis is part of  the hoped for 'cure'.


Aronian,Levon (2645) - Istratescu,Andrei (2587) [E45]
EU-ch 5th Antalya (11), 27.05.2004[Yip]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 b6 5.Nge2 Ba6 6.a3 Bxc3+ 7.Nxc3 d5 8.Qf3 A very direct approach that exploits the absence of Bb7.[Yip] 8...0–0 9.g4!? (diagram) 

Bayonet type attacks are common the Open Sicilian but not so much in the Nimzo-Indian.

Position 1

White has the bishop pair deep in the ending. How should white make progress?

White to play

Noteboom(D31) Analysis-Verifying Schandorff

Here is a preliminary look at GM Schandorff's anti-Noteboom repertoire idea in Playing 1.d4 The Queen's Gambit 2nd Ed(Quality Chess 2012).

The first edition suggested the 8.Rb1 sideline but in the 2nd edition, Schandorff has presented a more positional idea in the main line-13.c5!?

I looked at Schandorff's proposed TN(21.d5!) and his other ideas. Now I'm happy I get the basics and this will have to do for now.

Lomineishvili,Maia (2401) - Melnikova,Yana (2171) [D31]
EU-ch (Women) 5th Dresden (2), 22.03.2004[Yip]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.Nf3 dxc4 5.a4 Bb4 6.e3 b5 7.Bd2 a5 8.axb5 Bxc3 9.Bxc3 cxb5 10.b3 Bb7 11.bxc4 b4 12.Bb2 Nf6 13.c5 The idea is to play Bb5-a4 to blockade the queenside passed pawns (Diagram) 

Position 1
Black has just played 18...Ne4 to extend the light square blockade idea to the center.
Q1-What do think of black's idea?
Q2-How should white react?

White to Play

Playing the Queen's Gambit 2nd Ed

Playing the Queen's Gambit
The second edition is out from Quality Chess.

QualityChess Playing 1.d4 The Queens Gambit.

The big question is what's the difference? More games have been added and the analysis strengthended.

	1st Ed	2nd Ed
Pages	248	320
Games	66	77

Breakdown by Chapter
10 new games have been added. The big difference is also in the line against the Noteboom(D31) where a more positional main line has been added while keeping the older 8.Rb1 recommendation.

Ch					Year	1st Ed	2nd Ed
1	QGD	Wojtaszek	Fressinet	Wijk aan Zee	2011		New
2	QGA	Aronian	Stevic	Plovdiv	2010		New
3	Slav	Topalov	Anand	Sofia(m/8)	2010		New
4	Semi-Slav	Nakamura	Smeets	Wijk aan Zee	2011		New
		Hansen,E	Yang,D	Lubock	2010		New
		Shyam	Siddharth	Visakhapatnam	2011		New
		Hracek	Elsness	Port Carass	2011		New
		Anand	Shirov	Wijk aan Zee	2011		New
8	Minor Lines	Shirov	Kaczmarek	Warsaw(rapid)	2008		New
		Lomineishvili	Melnikova	Dresden	2004		New