Studies in the Dutch Defense - Chess Lecture - Volume 106 Chess Database Software Bb5 and black doesn’t play

Bb5 and black doesn’t play 3…a6

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Studies in the Dutch Defense - Chess Lecture - Volume 106 Chess Database Software Bb5 and black doesn’t playContent: 2. 4 hours of instruction and analysis in a series of 6 lectures. With GM Jesse Kraai, GM Eugene Perelshteyn, IM John Paul Wallace, LM Dana Mackenzie, and IM David Vigorito. The Dutch Defense was employed regularly in the past by Alekhine, Larsen, Morphy and Najdorf. The high water mark for the Defense occurred in 1951, when both Mikhail Botvinnik, the world champion, and his challenger, David Bronstein, played it in their World Championship