Svetushkin: The Ultimate Anti-Grünfeld Geschenkidee ABOUT STRATEGIC PLAY IN THE

ABOUT STRATEGIC PLAY IN THE CENTER

fail to see his moves coming

and later in Russia

while avoiding loads of opening theory

Why do you usually look at only a couple of pages in any endgame theory book you see

Svetushkin: The Ultimate Anti-Grünfeld Geschenkidee ABOUT STRATEGIC PLAY IN THEBy playing 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. f3, White kills three birds with one shot. First of all, this is a natural way of seizing space. The second merit of 3. f3 is that it throws the Grnfeld fans out of their main repertoire. The third point is that it allows White to delay the development of his queens knight. While in most systems its natural stand is on c3, against c5 plans it may go to d2 or a3, leaving c3 free for the other knight. Of course, Black