23/02/2019

D33 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, Folkestone (Swedish) variation


[Event "Hoogovens"] [Site "Beverwijk"] [Date "1958.??.??"] [Round "6"] [White "Donner, Jan Hein"] [Black "Stahlberg, Gideon"] [Annotator "Paukstadt 2019"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "0"] [BlackElo "0"] [ECO "D33"] 1. c4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 c5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. g3 c4{The Swedish Variation (also called the Folkestone Variation) is a sharp line beginning 6...c4. Black now has a four to three queenside pawn majority, and will try to expand with ...b5, with White aiming for a central break with e4. The line is considered somewhat dubious and is rarely seen nowadays... Lost it 2017 as black in international correspondence chess.} 7. Bg2 Bb4 8. O-O Nge7 9. e4 O-O 10. exd5 Nxd5 11. Nxd5 Qxd5 12. Ne5 Qb5 13. Nxc6 bxc6 14. Qf3 Bb7 15. b3 Rad8 16. bxc4 Qxc4 17. Be3 Ba5 18. Rfc1 Qe6 1/2-1/2