page 1 of 3; games 1-25 of 72  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Flohr vs Ragozin   ½-½ 19 1948 Izt A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3 2. Alatortsev vs Konstantinopolsky 1-0 66 1948 USSR Championship A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3 3. D Andric vs B Milic   1-0 72 1948 YUG-ch A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3 4. T Van Scheltinga vs Cortlever   ½-½ 40 1948 Beverwijk NED A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3 5. Kholmov vs A Pirtskhalava   ½-½ 44 1949 URS-ch sf+ A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3 6. Gligoric vs Guimard   ½-½ 32 1950 Mar del Plata A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3 7. Botvinnik vs Bronstein 1-0 66 1951 Botvinnik-Bronstein World Championship Match A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3 8. Szabo vs Botvinnik ½-½ 78 1952 Budapest A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3 9. Reshevsky vs Gligoric 0-1 43 1952 New York m A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3 10. J Dolezal vs Ujtelky   ½-½ 25 1955 Prague tm A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3 11. M Cuellar Gacharna vs A Franck   1-0 43 1958 13th olm final B A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3 12. Uhlmann vs Guimard   0-1 60 1960 Buenos Aires A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3 13. J Sofrevski vs B Tot   1-0 48 1960 YUG-ch A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3 14. G Barcza vs K Solmundarson   1-0 57 1960 Leipzig ol (Men) A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3 15. Bisguier vs N Robinson   1-0 36 1961 US Open A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3 16. L Tavares Da Silva vs S A Farias   1-0 38 1962 BRA-ch A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3 17. Filip vs S Mariotti   ½-½ 24 1969 Praia da Rocha zt A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3 18. Uhlmann vs Ivkov   0-1 30 1970 Siegen A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3 19. D Marovic vs M Bertok   ½-½ 13 1970 Rovinj/Zagreb A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3 20. M Vukic vs B Gasic   1-0 40 1972 Sarajevo A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3 21. Jansa vs Eu Liao Yuan   ½-½ 34 1974 Nice A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3 22. Larsen vs W Burgar   1-0 41 1974 Montreal CAN op A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3 23. Gligoric vs S Mariotti   ½-½ 43 1974 Nice ol (Men) prel A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3 24. J Meyers vs T Weinberger   ½-½ 49 1976 Lone Pine A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3 25. J Lechtynsky vs V Sviridov   1-0 42 1980 Hornicky Kahanec A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3  page 1 of 3; games 1-25 of 72    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)

Oct-11-03    rochade18: I always thought that the stonewall system is more popular than other Dutch variations Oct-11-03    Helloween: Not as popular as the Leningrad Systems with g6 and Bg7. White can play Ba3 in the Stonewall and leave Black with a bad light Bishop. Oct-11-03    Kenkaku: It appears to me that the Dutch, Ilyin-Genevsky Variation has just about completely taken over based on games in this database. Jul-27-04    Helloween: A94 actually respresents and line with 7...c6 after 7.b3 in 1.d4 f5 2.c4 Nf6 3.g3 e6 4.Bg2 Be7 5.Nf3 0-0 6.0-0 d5, while A93 is 7.b3 without 7...c6. I've noticed quite a few of these errors in these openings pages... Aug-20-05    vampiero: <Helloween> black isn't forced to give up the dark bishop. todays modern lines show Black playing Bd6, and Qe7 after white plays b3 so that it would take a while to force Black to exchange the dark squared bishop with Qc1 and such. it's not tottaly forced. Aug-20-05    Shams: <vampiero> Bd6 instead of Be7, you mean? Prior to ...d5? can you give the line please Aug-21-05    vampiero: 1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. g3 e6 4. Bg2 c6 5. Nf3 d5 6. 0-0 Bd6 7. b3 Qe7 and black supports his pawn on e6 and stops white from playing Ba3 (temporarily at least). This of course will not be in the liking for the Botvinnik stategy or Black players with the queen (Qd8-e8-h5). Then again it keeps the dark square bishop alive and if White still tries to exchange it he can either continue by playing a4 and then Ba3 or by placing the bihsop on b2, queen on c1 and then continuing with Ba3 Aug-21-05    misguidedaggression: Black can also play ...b6 after b3 to meet Ba3 with ...c5. It's probably not a good idea, but it can be done. (I lost in a slow and painful fashion the last time I tried it.) Also, note that white has to play O-O before b3 otherwise Black can check the king to get the Queen behind the bishop. For example: 1.d4 f5 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nf3 e6 4.g3 d5 5.Bg2 c6 6.b3?! Bb4+ Now after 7.Bd2 black just plays ...Bd6 retaining the bishop. 7.Nfd2 is met by ...Qe7. Nov-04-05    vampiero: i suggest you read Aagaards book on the Stonewall dutch, there is a variation were White plays the bishop to f4, and in your vacriation, after 'Bb4+ 7. Bd2 Bd6 retaining the bishop 8. Bf4 getting rid of it or placing it on Be7 in a weak position, the author just suggests that Black might as well get something out of the bishop trade so he suggest the take on f4 to ruin Whites pawn structure a little bit. But nevertheless, the bishop is gone Feb-08-06    foolishmovesss: I have found that after white plays a4 to try and trade the dark bishops, black can try with Na6 and bring the Knight to its new found home on b4, I usually get this position from a transposition in some slav variants. In the cases where I play this I usually get in a5 before white ever gets in a4, then the knight on b4 is really hard to remove and white is hard pressed to ever trade dark square bishops. Feb-08-06    vampiero: but how often does White actually play a4? I've seen it but its pretty rare Feb-08-06    foolishmovesss: Indeed it is. However if you transpose from the Slav as I do, you see it more often, since you play a5 threatning a4 to gain massive space on the queenside. I have found with the white pieces that if you allow black to much queenside space, you usually end up being very pasive because black owns the kingside, and well there isnt much play in the center. So when I see a5 from the white side, I play a4 to stop the space gaining a4 from black. I have to give up the b4 square, but to get a square you have to give a square, as some GM once said. I believe it was Fischer but I don't really know. Dec-23-07    Chess Addict: I wonder if the trade of dark-colored bishops favors white. Dark squares near the center may be weakened, but Black can bring his bad light-squared bishop to h5 via d7-e8-h5. Looking at the statistics: 54% W and 15% B, I may have to look for another variation for White. May-23-11    Muk: <Chess Addict> It looks for that Bxa6 is better because if white plays Nbd7 (<or another move>) White will play Qc1 and when black play Bxa3 then Qxa3 and white controls the a3 f8 diagonal. If black plays Bxa3 then the following variation is possible: 9.Nxa3 Qe7 10.Nc2 Nbd7 11.Qd3 b6 12.Ne3 Bb7 13.a4 Ng4 etc.

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