page 1 of 24; games 1-25 of 593  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Schlechter vs Tarrasch 1-0 26 1903 Monte Carlo A55 Old Indian, Main line 2. E Cohn vs Nimzowitsch 0-1 65 1906 Munich A55 Old Indian, Main line 3. H Shoosmith vs Nimzowitsch 0-1 29 1907 Ostende-B A55 Old Indian, Main line 4. Vidmar vs Tartakower   0-1 78 1909 St.Petersburg A55 Old Indian, Main line 5. Lovtsky vs Burn   0-1 36 1912 Breslau Kongress A55 Old Indian, Main line 6. Rubinstein vs Nimzowitsch 1-0 50 1912 San A55 Old Indian, Main line 7. S Rubinstein vs Capablanca 0-1 31 1913 New York INT A55 Old Indian, Main line 8. Tarrasch vs Euwe 0-1 39 1922 Bad Pistyan it, CZE A55 Old Indian, Main line 9. Gruenfeld vs Euwe   1-0 40 1922 Bad Pistyan it, CZE A55 Old Indian, Main line 10. Alekhine vs E Spencer   1-0 49 1923 Liverpool sim A55 Old Indian, Main line 11. F Bohatirchuk vs S F Lebedev   1-0 38 1923 URS-ch02 A55 Old Indian, Main line 12. A Selezniev vs V Sozin   ½-½ 40 1924 URS-ch03 A55 Old Indian, Main line 13. A Selezniev vs Ilyin-Zhenevsky   1-0 53 1924 URS-ch03 A55 Old Indian, Main line 14. Samisch vs J W Te Kolste 1-0 26 1925 Baden-Baden Saemisch A55 Old Indian, Main line 15. Rubinstein vs Przepiorka   1-0 33 1925 Marienbad A55 Old Indian, Main line 16. R Crepeaux vs M L Hanauer   ½-½ 24 1928 Olympiad A55 Old Indian, Main line 17. Bogoljubov vs Kieninger   ½-½ 46 1933 Bad Pyrmont (Germany) A55 Old Indian, Main line 18. H Muller vs K Sterk   0-1 16 1935 Tatatovaros it A55 Old Indian, Main line 19. Kevitz vs Kupchik   0-1 42 1936 USA ch A55 Old Indian, Main line 20. K Makarczyk vs P Weichert   1-0 41 1937 Bad Saarow A55 Old Indian, Main line 21. Eliskases vs Kieninger   0-1 64 1938 It A55 Old Indian, Main line 22. H Kramer vs J Been   ½-½ 32 1946 NED-ch prelim III A55 Old Indian, Main line 23. L Stumpers vs Grob 1-0 60 1947 Int B A55 Old Indian, Main line 24. Pachman vs Vidmar   1-0 42 1948 ? A55 Old Indian, Main line 25. Schmid vs Niephaus   1-0 45 1948 Essen West German ch A55 Old Indian, Main line  page 1 of 24; games 1-25 of 593    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)

Feb-27-04    waddayaplay: Why isn't this played at highest level anymore? It seems sound enough. Aug-16-04    tomh72000: See Old Indian (A53) for some discussion. IM Lawrence Day claims it to be sound, and in fact more solid thahn the KID. Oct-04-04    tacticsjokerxxx: maybe because it's "old"? haha. Nov-20-04    Knight13: Very likely to be the Center Grabber Opening. Nov-20-04    gauer: The Old Indian lines are some of my favourite lines too, sometimes delaying Nf6 in favour of responding 1 ... d6, 2 ... Bg4 (if favourable), (2 (if Bg4 is unfavouable) or 3)...Nbd7, and now sometimes choosing c5 or e5, depending on whether an early f4 comes or not, then followed by Nf6. I enjoy playing the Philidor and some of the Two Knights / Hungarian / Semi-Italian Hybrids (see Oxford Companion to Chess for opening lines discussion if you don't know the semi-Italian move order), too, which also suits my repetoire. And the d6 lines seem to be the best (least riskiest) way to get here. I also think it's sound. Nov-21-04    IMlday: 1.d4 d6 is a Bohatirchuk move order. After 2.Nf3 Bg4 3.e4 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 is a line he was playing already in the 40's. Black aims for a French type set up with d6-d5 but has well developed the problem B/c8. Against 2.c4 he liked 2..Nd7 but later Suttles preferred 2..e5 since Black has little in the endgame eg Zugic-Day, Ontario Closed 1997 went 3.de de 4.Qd8 Kd8 5.Nc3 Be6 6.b3 Nc6 7.Bb2 Kc8 8.0-0-0 Nf6 9.h3 Bc5 10.e3 Nfd7 11.Nf3 f6 12.Bd3 a5 13.g4 Be7 with a robust equality (.5-.5, 45). The only thing 'wrong' with 1..d6 is that White can play 2.e4 making a Pirc.

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