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I Was a Victim of Bobby Fischer December 23, 2021.Minor Pieces 23: Cecil Alfred Lucas Bull Part 2 December 23, 2021.Merry Chessmas from the BCN Team! December 24, 2021.Let’s dive in and take a look at a few recent games that are not in the book, but which align with the recommendations therein. It’s an approach which seems to stand up in the present day. His suggestions differ from Hillarp Persson, in that whereas the Swedish GM recommends that Black plays an early …-a7-a6 in most lines, Lakdawala goes back to the Norwood repertoire of old, where 1 e4 g6 2 d4 d6 3 Nc3 c6!? was one of the key pillars of the Black counterattacking reply.
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Lakdawala’s book is comprehensive, brimming with ideas and gives lines for Black after all sensible opening first moves, based on complete games. I think I have most of the Modern Defence books in my library, stretching back to Keene and Botterill, through Norwood and Tiger Hillarp Persson and now complimented by the latest work from Cyrus Lakdawala : ‘ Opening Repertoire’ The Modern Defence. If this is your thing and you have an independent character, you will find what you want after 1…g6. Black has to suck up early pressure and time his counterattack to perfection to break up the enemy position. You either like the Modern or you don’t and you have to get into the right frame of mind in order to play it properly. Having played the Modern for some 40 years now, I can testify that the truth is somewhere between the two views. This is the Modern Defence, which has been described both as a fighting opening, based on counterattack and a masochistic paradise, where Black has to sit with less space for the whole game and then loses.