Opening Repertoire for Black -- Marovic/Parma

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Opening Repertoire for Black -- Marovic/Parma
Compiled by fredthebear

This is a modest but good repertoire book -- it recommends the QGD and a variation of the Benoni against 1 d4 and the French and the Pirc against 1 e4 (the idea is to give one solid and one sharp alternative against any approach by white). It includes a nice collection of games to illustrate the various white and black plans in each opening.

* Black Storms: Game Collection: Tal - The Modern Benoni

* Checkmate brevities: Game Collection: Art of Checkmate

* Crouch's book: Game Collection: Chess Secrets - Attackers (Crouch)

* KID 0-1s: Game Collection: K.I.D B wins E98

* Dr. Edmund Adam Miniatures: Edmund Adam

H.T. Bland. On page 207 of the December 1929 American Chess Bulletin he exalted the challenger in that year's world championship match:

Bravo ‘Bogol', you've shown pluck.
One and all we wish you luck.
Gee, some thought you'd barged between
Other players who'd have been
Less likely straightaway to lose
Just as friend Alekhine might choose;
Undaunted, ‘Bogol', you went in
Believing you'd a chance to win.
Or failing that, to make a fight,
Which you are doing as we write.

Snow White & the Huntsman by Evan Daugherty

"Who will you be when faced with the end?
The end of a kingdom,
The end of good men,
Will you run?
Will you hide?
Or will you hunt down evil with a venomous pride?

Rise to the ashes,
Rise to the winter sky,
Rise to the calling,
Make heard the battle cry.
Let it scream from the mountains
From the forest to the chapel,
Because death is a hungry mouth
And you are the apple.

So who will you be when faced with the end?
When the vultures are circling
And the shadows descend
Will you cower?
Or will you fight?
Is your heart made of glass?
Or a pure Snow White?"
― Lily Blake, Snow White & the Huntsman

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"Many have become chess masters, no one has become the master of chess." ― Siegbert Tarrasch

The City Rat and the Country Rat

A city rat, one night,
Did, with a civil stoop,
A country rat invite
To end a turtle soup.

On a Turkey carpet
They found the table spread,
And sure I need not harp it
How well the fellows fed.

The entertainment was
A truly noble one;
But some unlucky cause
Disturbed it when begun.

It was a slight rat-tat,
That put their joys to rout;
Out ran the city rat;
His guest, too, scampered out.

Our rats but fairly quit,
The fearful knocking ceased.
"Return we," cried the cit,
To finish there our feast.

"No," said the rustic rat;
"Tomorrow dine with me.
I'm not offended at
Your feast so grand and free, –

"For I have no fare resembling;
But then I eat at leisure,
And would not swap, for pleasure
So mixed with fear and trembling."

French Proverb: "Il ne faut rien laisser au hasard." ― (Nothing should be left to chance.)

"There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world." ― Pierre Mac Orlan

"You can only get good at chess if you love the game." ― Bobby Fischer

"As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight." — The Revenant

Ivkov vs C Guimard, 1955
(D55) Queen's Gambit Declined, 31 moves, 1-0
Gligoric vs Filip, 1965
(D55) Queen's Gambit Declined, 44 moves, 1-0
Petrosian vs Spassky, 1969
(D55) Queen's Gambit Declined, 50 moves, 1-0
Uhlmann vs Spassky, 1967
(D58) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst, 22 moves, 0-1
Korchnoi vs Geller, 1971
(D58) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst, 26 moves, 1-0
Larsen vs Spassky, 1968
(D59) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower, 31 moves, 1/2-1/2
Fischer vs Spassky, 1972
(D59) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower, 41 moves, 1-0
Szabo vs Kavalek, 1973
(D59) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower, 24 moves, 1/2-1/2
Petrosian vs A A Bikhovsky, 1968
(D31) Queen's Gambit Declined, 29 moves, 1-0
Korchnoi vs Spassky, 1968
(D31) Queen's Gambit Declined, 41 moves, 0-1
Korchnoi vs Spassky, 1968
(D31) Queen's Gambit Declined, 42 moves, 1-0
Bobotsov vs Petrosian, 1968
(D35) Queen's Gambit Declined, 41 moves, 0-1
Lasker vs Capablanca, 1921
(D61) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, 68 moves, 0-1
Polugaevsky vs Portisch, 1973
(D63) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, 54 moves, 0-1
Gruenfeld vs Alekhine, 1923
(D64) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, 34 moves, 0-1
Capablanca vs Alekhine, 1927
(D63) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, 38 moves, 1/2-1/2
Smyslov vs Keres, 1948
(E02) Catalan, Open, 5.Qa4, 57 moves, 0-1
Tukmakov vs Korchnoi, 1973
(E04) Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3, 38 moves, 0-1
Lengyel vs Karpov, 1971
(E04) Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3, 41 moves, 0-1
V Zilberstein vs Vasiukov, 1972
(A32) English, Symmetrical Variation, 23 moves, 1/2-1/2
Ivkov vs Fischer, 1968
(A32) English, Symmetrical Variation, 75 moves, 0-1
Reshevsky vs Polugaevsky, 1970
(A32) English, Symmetrical Variation, 33 moves, 1-0
Vaganian vs A Planinc, 1975
(A32) English, Symmetrical Variation, 22 moves, 0-1
Polugaevsky vs Kavalek, 1974
(A57) Benko Gambit, 41 moves, 1-0
Uhlmann vs Adorjan, 1971
(E75) King's Indian, Averbakh, Main line, 35 moves, 0-1
Uhlmann vs R Byrne, 1971
(E73) King's Indian, 55 moves, 1/2-1/2
Gheorghiu vs Larsen, 1972
(A43) Old Benoni, 22 moves, 1/2-1/2
Geller vs Suetin, 1972
(A10) English, 48 moves, 1-0
Gligoric vs Suetin, 1973
(A57) Benko Gambit, 48 moves, 0-1
Savon vs Beliavsky, 1973
(A04) Reti Opening, 43 moves, 1-0
Gheorghiu vs Ljubojevic, 1974
(A60) Benoni Defense, 44 moves, 1-0
Larsen vs Spassky, 1970
(A01) Nimzovich-Larsen Attack, 17 moves, 0-1
Ljubojevic vs Portisch, 1972
(A01) Nimzovich-Larsen Attack, 59 moves, 0-1
Larsen vs Najdorf, 1968
(A01) Nimzovich-Larsen Attack, 39 moves, 0-1
Smyslov vs Uhlmann, 1967
(A15) English, 66 moves, 1-0
V Raicevic vs Tarjan, 1975
(A36) English, 42 moves, 0-1
Petrosian vs Fischer, 1970
(A37) English, Symmetrical, 66 moves, 0-1
Smyslov vs Fischer, 1970
(A36) English, 44 moves, 0-1
Pachman vs Gligoric, 1961
(E66) King's Indian, Fianchetto, Yugoslav Panno, 84 moves, 0-1
K Langeweg vs Korchnoi, 1972
(A34) English, Symmetrical, 31 moves, 0-1
F Olafsson vs Bronstein, 1974
(A15) English, 73 moves, 1/2-1/2
H Ree vs Polugaevsky, 1972
(A34) English, Symmetrical, 32 moves, 0-1
Uhlmann vs Korchnoi, 1972
(A34) English, Symmetrical, 31 moves, 0-1
Smyslov vs Botvinnik, 1954
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 28 moves, 1-0
Bondarevsky vs Botvinnik, 1941
(C02) French, Advance, 29 moves, 0-1
Larsen vs Uhlmann, 1971
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 44 moves, 1/2-1/2
Larsen vs Uhlmann, 1971
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 64 moves, 1-0
Bronstein vs Petrosian, 1975
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 30 moves, 1/2-1/2
Karpov vs Uhlmann, 1973
(C09) French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line, 42 moves, 1-0
G Kuzmin vs Uhlmann, 1973
(C09) French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line, 44 moves, 1-0
L Schmid vs Portisch, 1974
(C09) French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line, 42 moves, 0-1
Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1974
(C09) French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line, 45 moves, 1/2-1/2
Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1974
(C09) French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line, 51 moves, 1/2-1/2
Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1974
(C09) French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line, 58 moves, 1/2-1/2
Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1974
(C09) French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line, 23 moves, 1/2-1/2
Gipslis vs Korchnoi, 1970
(C09) French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line, 59 moves, 0-1
Geller vs Uhlmann, 1970
(C09) French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line, 47 moves, 0-1
Alekhine vs Euwe, 1935
(C15) French, Winawer, 41 moves, 1-0
Gulko vs Timman, 1974
(C15) French, Winawer, 62 moves, 0-1
Fischer vs V Kovacevic, 1970
(C15) French, Winawer, 30 moves, 0-1
Stein vs Uhlmann, 1962
(C19) French, Winawer, Advance, 67 moves, 0-1
Suetin vs Ivkov, 1963
(C19) French, Winawer, Advance, 28 moves, 1/2-1/2
Smyslov vs Letelier, 1950
(C19) French, Winawer, Advance, 42 moves, 1-0
Smyslov vs Boleslavsky, 1941
(C19) French, Winawer, Advance, 41 moves, 1-0
Fischer vs Uhlmann, 1962
(C19) French, Winawer, Advance, 32 moves, 1/2-1/2
Hartston vs Uhlmann, 1973
(C19) French, Winawer, Advance, 52 moves, 0-1
Gligoric vs W Pietzsch, 1962
(C18) French, Winawer, 23 moves, 1/2-1/2
Korchnoi vs Bronstein, 1958
(C18) French, Winawer, 30 moves, 1/2-1/2
Bronstein vs Benko, 1969
(B09) Pirc, Austrian Attack, 44 moves, 1-0
Ljubojevic vs Jansa, 1972
(B09) Pirc, Austrian Attack, 43 moves, 1/2-1/2
Velimirovic vs Rajkovic, 1971
(B09) Pirc, Austrian Attack, 28 moves, 1-0
Savon vs J H Donner, 1973
(B09) Pirc, Austrian Attack, 34 moves, 1/2-1/2
Parma vs Keene, 1973
(B09) Pirc, Austrian Attack, 44 moves, 1-0
Matulovic vs Bronstein, 1971
(B09) Pirc, Austrian Attack, 43 moves, 1/2-1/2
Gligoric vs Quinteros, 1970
(B09) Pirc, Austrian Attack, 51 moves, 1-0
Karpov vs Y Nikolaevsky, 1971
(B09) Pirc, Austrian Attack, 41 moves, 1-0
Suetin vs V S Zhidkov, 1972
(B09) Pirc, Austrian Attack, 17 moves, 0-1
Parma vs J Eising, 1975
(B09) Pirc, Austrian Attack, 31 moves, 1/2-1/2
R Byrne vs Parma, 1969
(B07) Pirc, 47 moves, 1-0
Hecht vs Parma, 1973
(B07) Pirc, 34 moves, 1/2-1/2
Hartston vs E Torre, 1974
(B07) Pirc, 63 moves, 0-1
Savon vs P Dely, 1970
(B07) Pirc, 21 moves, 1/2-1/2
E Jimenez Zerquera vs Botvinnik, 1967
(B07) Pirc, 35 moves, 0-1
A Medina Garcia vs Larsen, 1972
(B06) Robatsch, 32 moves, 0-1
P C Griffiths vs Miles, 1974
(B08) Pirc, Classical, 43 moves, 0-1
M Mukhitdinov vs Botvinnik, 1967
(B08) Pirc, Classical, 36 moves, 0-1
Matulovic vs Botvinnik, 1970
(B08) Pirc, Classical, 92 moves, 1/2-1/2
E Jimenez Zerquera vs Matulovic, 1970
(B08) Pirc, Classical, 63 moves, 0-1
Vasiukov vs Parma, 1974
(B08) Pirc, Classical, 32 moves, 1/2-1/2
Geller vs Vasiukov, 1968
(B08) Pirc, Classical, 33 moves, 0-1
Spassky vs Parma, 1966
(B08) Pirc, Classical, 32 moves, 1-0
Browne vs Timman, 1971
(B08) Pirc, Classical, 60 moves, 0-1
Karpov vs Timman, 1977
(B08) Pirc, Classical, 53 moves, 1/2-1/2
A Planinc vs H Ree, 1974
(B08) Pirc, Classical, 23 moves, 1-0
E Cobo Arteaga vs Andersson, 1974
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 29 moves, 0-1
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