page 1 of 7; games 1-25 of 173  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Bannik vs V Koval   0-1 58 1954 UKR-ch C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 2. A Medina-Garcia vs Spassky 0-1 32 1955 Goteborg m C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 3. A Medina-Garcia vs Szabo   0-1 53 1955 Goteborg C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 4. B Milic vs Spassky 0-1 51 1955 2nd World Student Chess Championship C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 5. V Sherbakov vs Furman   0-1 35 1955 URS-ch22 C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 6. Bronstein vs Wade   1-0 40 1956 Olympiad C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 7. Kotkov vs Korchnoi   ½-½ 25 1956 Tbilisi C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 8. B Milic vs Petrosian   ½-½ 19 1956 Belgrad C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 9. Polugaevsky vs Chukaev   1-0 44 1956 Ch URS (1/2 final) C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 10. Kotkov vs Krogius   ½-½ 45 1956 Tbilisi ½f-USSR ch C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 11. Keres vs Benko 1-0 21 1959 Bled C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 12. Gligoric vs Benko   1-0 55 1959 Belgrade ct YUG C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 13. Jansa vs Unzicker   ½-½ 32 1961 Moscow C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 14. Kotkov vs Jansa   ½-½ 20 1961 Moscow C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 15. C B Van den Berg vs Gruenfeld   ½-½ 34 1961 Hoogovens C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 16. Tal vs Robatsch 1-0 41 1963 9 Havana C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 17. Gufeld vs Kholmov   ½-½ 33 1963 URS-ch31 C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 18. Bronstein vs Krogius   ½-½ 46 1964 Ch URS C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 19. Ivkov vs L Lengyel   1-0 57 1964 Amsterdam C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 20. Ivkov vs Gufeld   1-0 31 1964 Sarajevo C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 21. Nezhmetdinov vs G Forintos   1-0 39 1964 M.Chigorin C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 22. Parma vs C Zuidema   1-0 40 1964 Belgrade (Yugoslavia) C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 23. Parma vs J Kostro   1-0 36 1964 Polanica Zdroj (Poland) C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 24. Parma vs Spassky   ½-½ 28 1964 Olympiad C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 25. F Kuijpers vs Portisch   0-1 36 1964 Tel Aviv C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense  page 1 of 7; games 1-25 of 173    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)

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May-31-03    maa: Why the Knight move back on b8 May-31-03    bishop: Im not an expert, but here is my take on this.The Pawns should go first with the pieces behind. The Knight in front of the Pawn is awkwardly placed, it can't do anything by itself. The Knight will go to the d7 square next, making way for the c-Pawn to go to c6 or c5. The loss of time is not that important as the position is closed up for now. Also, White threatenes to push his d-Pawn to d5 driving the Knight back anyway, followed by the the good move a4 which will weaken the Black Pawns on the Queenside. Black does not have a good response to a4, if he plays ...bxa4 then his a-Pawn will be isolated and weak. If he guards the b-Pawn with say ...Rb8 then White will play axb5 and Black's b-Pawn will be isolated. With the Knight out of the way Black can reply to this dangerous attack to his Queenside with the move ...c6 which holds everything in place. To sum up ...Nb8 is a regrouping of the pieces with the purpose of having a more flexible position. You may ask, Well why not put the Knight on d7 to begin with, but that is another question. May-31-03    maa: thank Sep-15-03    PinkPanther: What kind of a winning percentage is this for black? Who in their right mind would play this variation if those percentages were accurate. Sep-15-03    Benzol: Take your pick. Either Tal,Browne,Jansa,Portisch,Spassky and Robatsch aren't in their right minds or the percentages need looking at. Sep-16-03    BiLL RobeRTiE: the % is fine for other codes of it (c95 96) Sep-16-03    Kenkaku: Tal, Browne, and Jansa played the white side of it. Sep-17-03    Benzol: <Kenkaku><Tal, Browne and Jansa played the white side of it.> Thanks for that. Sep-09-06    oao2102: Unzicker vs Tal, 1960 Sep-22-07    Cactus: Percentages have to be taken with a grain of salt. Me personnally- I take no notice of them. The Breyer makes perfect sense- if some of the people that played this defence blundered, is that the opening's fault?

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