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98_D05/A46_Colle Zukertort (the b3-Colle) The b3-Colle, a.k.a. <Rubinstein Attack>, a strategy you can use the rest of your life. The Colle-Zukertort, or more accurately the <"Zukertort variation of the Colle System,"> is a chess opening strategy where White locks up the center, causing transportation issues for Black, and can then attack the enemy King. http://zukertort.com/ <One variation on the Colle is the Colle–Zukertort System (named for Johannes Zukertort), characterized by developing the dark-squared bishop on b2. The typical plan is: 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 e6 3.e3 Nf6 4.Bd3 c5 5.b3 Nc6 6.0-0 Bd6 7.Bb2 0-0. In this variation White will eventually play for a kingside attack, despite his apparently innocuous development. This system has been frequently employed at grandmaster level by Artur Yusupov.> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colle_... Rudel, David (2009). Zuke 'Em: The Colle–Zukertort Revolutionized. Thinkers Press. ISBN 1-888710-39-X check Game Collection: Anti-KIDs ; Game Collection: The Colle System: Koltanowski, Phoenix, Zukertor ; Game Collection: colle system ; Game Collection: Zuke/Rubinstein Power b3, Bb2 ; Game Collection: 3 Zukertort/Rubinstein Powered Fredthebear ; 115 games, 1881-2022 A A A A London System 1 (d5) [White] 60 games, 2016-2017 Amateur's Mind - Silman 6 games, 1873-1993 Chess for Hawks (Lakdawala) 'Chess for Hawks: Improve your vision, sharpen your talons, forget your fear' by Cyrus Lakdawala. 38 games, 1851-2016 Dudley's Colle System Classics (Koltanowski c3) This collection was compiled by Dudley. Thank you Dudley! Fredthebear has randomly added approximately 80 games featuring d4, Bd3 below Dudley's original collection. (White must have a plan against the Indian defenses!) Dudley wrote: The Colle system has been described as the easiest good opening system to learn for white. It allows white to develop his pieces behind a wall of pawns before initiating action and avoids several black defenses. The system is not forcing and does not put the opposing player under a great amount of pressure, but has a deceptive sting that will surprise many opponents. Essentially, it is a Semi-Slav defense "reversed", and the extra tempo gives White attacking possibilities not usually seen from the black side. However, if white doesn't win in the opening or middle game, he often will have a pawn majority of 3-2 on the Q side which can be a winning ending. The opening is not regarded as challenging enough for GM level chess, but for club players it is still viable and is a good introduction to QP openings. This is the one of the earliest and most successful "program" openings, and is very solid and sound. * FTB suggests the learner pay heed in the opening phase to the various central pawn advances and exchanges (captures and recaptures) that occur, particularly in D02 & D04 games. These pawn skeleton differences allow different types of piece activity later on. Seize and make use of open lines with your long range pieces! Thus, the middlegame plan depends upon which pawns have been advanced and exchanged in the opening phase. (The Colle 5.c3 Koltanowski Variation prepares a slow advanced of the e-pawn from e2-e3-e4-e5, but sometimes e3xd4 is played.) * Game Collection: Checkmate: Checkmate Patterns This link has a good, concise collection of diagrammed checkmate patterns by name. The new reader may wish to consult it initially to the point of memorization. 134 games, 1892-2015 Fischer's Blitz Games at Herceg Novi, 1970 This collection contains the 22 games Fischer played at the 1970 Herceg Novi blitz event, certainly the strongest five-minute tournament of the 20th century. The twelve participants were Fischer, Tal, Korchnoi, Petrosian, Bronstein, Hort, Matulovich, Smyslov, Reshevsky, Uhlmann, Ivkov, and Ostojic. Fischer utterly dominated this super-strong field with a 19-3 score (17 wins, four draws, and one loss), 4 1/2 points better than 2nd place finisher Tal. This result makes a compelling argument that Fischer is the strongest blitz player of all time. 22 games, 1970 George Koltanowski From Adventures of a CHESS MASTER 4 games, 1829-1872 Greek Gift Games with a bishop sac on H7 1 game, 1883 IM Jeremy Silman: "How to Reassess Your Chess" These are the games analyzed in the book. Per game I have added the page numbers and also the theme for which this game was used in the book. 51 games, 1873-1993 jhdriggs' favorite London System games 1 game, 1991 John Nunn - Understanding Chess Move by Move 30 games, 1978-2000 Koltanowski 56-board blindfold-simul 1960 /gauer This collection compiled by gauer. Thank you gauer! Held at San Francisco, USA, 4th of December, 1956 by Georges Koltanowski - columnist and age 57, in which he received a blindfold and the white pieces in a simul against (some of) the following players (ordered by the amount of moves in which the opponents lasted). 29 out of his 56 total games (all but one were wins; he scored +50-0=6 overall) are present here. The wikipedia article below suggests that the blindfold games were played consecutively (or the version of their story on 26 March, 2015), giving each player 10 seconds/move. In some cases, the names of the players of the black pieces were only given partially, and might be awaiting correction slip revisions. [References: (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George... ] * Game Collection: Checkmate: Checkmate Patterns This link has a good, concise collection of diagrammed checkmate patterns by name. The new reader may wish to consult it initially to the point of memorization. 29 games, 1960 London System, Sarratt Attack 3 games, 1889-2017 Storming The Barricades by Larry Christiansen There are 10 games missing. 82 games, 1959-1999 The Amateur's Mind Games from Jeremy Silman's book "The Amateur's Mind". Includes chapter and page number. 6 games, 1925-1993