page 1 of 27; games 1-25 of 671  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Blackburne vs A Clerc 1-0 56 1878 Paris ;HCL 20 D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 2. Showalter vs Blackburne   0-1 51 1896 Nuremberg D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 3. S F Lebedev vs S Tolstoy   0-1 39 1900 corr D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 4. Burn vs Janowski   0-1 46 1907 Ostende CHA D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 5. Rubinstein vs H Suechting   ½-½ 23 1908 Prague D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 6. Lasker vs Duras 1-0 54 1909 St. Petersburg (Russia) D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 7. Vidmar vs Schlechter   ½-½ 26 1911 San Sebastian D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 8. Levenfish vs A Rabinovich   1-0 36 1912 All-Russian Masters D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 9. Kupchik vs Capablanca 0-1 60 1913 New York Rice D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 10. O Chajes vs Janowski   0-1 23 1913 New York, NY USA D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 11. Marshall vs Janowski   1-0 62 1914 DSB-19.Kongress Mannheim ;HCL 20 D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 12. Marshall vs Janowski   1-0 64 1914 RUS D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 13. Showalter vs Janowski   ½-½ 51 1916 match Lexington D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 14. Showalter vs Janowski   0-1 42 1916 match Lexington D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 15. Marshall vs Janowski ½-½ 64 1916 USA D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 16. C Jaffe vs Janowski 1-0 88 1916 USA D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 17. C Jaffe vs Janowski ½-½ 58 1916 USA D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 18. Samisch vs J Krejcik   1-0 53 1921 Vienna D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 19. Samisch vs K Richter   ½-½ 35 1932 Swinemuende GER D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 20. E R Lundin vs A Muffang   1-0 36 1935 Olympiad D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 21. M Monticelli vs A Muffang   1-0 20 1935 Olympiad D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 22. Levenfish vs Rauzer   ½-½ 45 1936 Leningrad-ch D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 23. Ahues vs J Rejfir   1-0 46 1936 Munich ol (Men) D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 24. Tsvetkov vs J Rejfir   0-1 23 1936 Munich ol (Men) D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 25. V Paroulek vs Gilg   0-1 30 1936 UJCS-14.Kongress D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted  page 1 of 27; games 1-25 of 671    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)

Secrets of Opening Surprises

Jan-12-09    refutor: any thoughts on the smyslov variation (4. ...g6)? is black just giving away too much space to White? Mar-05-09    FiveofSwords: well in this position 4...e5 is such an easy move to play and I think its nearly =, although it may be a little too open and tactical for some people. 4...g6 would most of all just seem to be an attempt to keep the position a little slower. This position is pretty safe for black so I dont think that any reasonable improving moves he might make would put him in a hopeless position or anything. Its a little hard to understand what the long term plan of g6 would be for me, at least with 4..e5 you are probably going to give white an isolated pawn so thats something simple to work with. But if you have some plan its probably fine.

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