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page 1 of 59; games 1-25 of 1,469  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Schlechter vs Tarrasch 1-0 26 1903 Monte Carlo A55 Old Indian, Main line 2. E Cohn vs Nimzowitsch 0-1 65 1906 Altmunchen Club tournament A55 Old Indian, Main line 3. H W Shoosmith vs Nimzowitsch 0-1 29 1907 Ostend-B A55 Old Indian, Main line 4. Vidmar vs Tartakower 0-1 78 1909 St. Petersburg A55 Old Indian, Main line 5. Rubinstein vs Nimzowitsch 1-0 50 1912 San Sebastian A55 Old Indian, Main line 6. M Lowcki vs Burn 0-1 36 1912 18th DSB Congress, Breslau A55 Old Indian, Main line 7. S Rubinstein vs Capablanca 0-1 31 1913 American National A55 Old Indian, Main line 8. A Hodges vs Kupchik   1-0 57 1915 Metropolitan Chess League Individual A55 Old Indian, Main line 9. M Censer vs H Strick van Linschoten   1-0 28 1915 Match A55 Old Indian, Main line 10. Olaf Smedal vs O Loewenborg   1-0 27 1917 Nordic Congress 8th A55 Old Indian, Main line 11. Schlechter vs Breyer 0-1 52 1918 Five Masters Tournament A55 Old Indian, Main line 12. A Hakansson vs P Johner   0-1 29 1920 Gothenburg B A55 Old Indian, Main line 13. Tarrasch vs Euwe 0-1 39 1922 Bad Pistyan A55 Old Indian, Main line 14. Gruenfeld vs Euwe 1-0 40 1922 Bad Pistyan A55 Old Indian, Main line 15. W Schelfhout vs H Strick van Linschoten   0-1 40 1922 Amsterdam A55 Old Indian, Main line 16. F Bohatirchuk vs S F Lebedev   1-0 38 1923 USSR Championship A55 Old Indian, Main line 17. Alekhine vs E Spencer 1-0 49 1923 Simul, 31b A55 Old Indian, Main line 18. A Vajda vs M Golmayo   1-0 34 1924 Paris Unofficial Olympiad A55 Old Indian, Main line 19. A Selezniev vs Ilyin-Zhenevsky   1-0 53 1924 USSR Championship A55 Old Indian, Main line 20. Saemisch vs J W te Kolste 1-0 26 1925 Baden-Baden A55 Old Indian, Main line 21. Rubinstein vs D Przepiorka 1-0 33 1925 Marienbad A55 Old Indian, Main line 22. E J Roesch vs Reshevsky   0-1 55 1927 1st NCF Congress A55 Old Indian, Main line 23. R Crepeaux vs M L Hanauer   ½-½ 24 1928 The Hague Olympiad A55 Old Indian, Main line 24. A Smorodsky vs V Nenarokov   1-0 47 1929 Ch Tbilisi A55 Old Indian, Main line 25. Kashdan vs A Kevitz   1-0 46 1930 Manhattan CC-ch A55 Old Indian, Main line  page 1 of 59; games 1-25 of 1,469

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Feb-27-04    waddayaplay: Why isn't this played at highest level anymore? It seems sound enough. Aug-16-04    tomh72000: See Old Indian (A53) for some discussion. IM Lawrence Day claims it to be sound, and in fact more solid thahn the KID. Oct-04-04    tacticsjokerxxx: maybe because it's "old"? haha. Nov-20-04    Knight13: Very likely to be the Center Grabber Opening. Nov-20-04    gauer: The Old Indian lines are some of my favourite lines too, sometimes delaying Nf6 in favour of responding 1 ... d6, 2 ... Bg4 (if favourable), (2 (if Bg4 is unfavouable) or 3)...Nbd7, and now sometimes choosing c5 or e5, depending on whether an early f4 comes or not, then followed by Nf6. I enjoy playing the Philidor and some of the Two Knights / Hungarian / Semi-Italian Hybrids (see Oxford Companion to Chess for opening lines discussion if you don't know the semi-Italian move order), too, which also suits my repetoire. And the d6 lines seem to be the best (least riskiest) way to get here. I also think it's sound. Nov-21-04    IMlday: 1.d4 d6 is a Bohatirchuk move order. After 2.Nf3 Bg4 3.e4 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 is a line he was playing already in the 40's. Black aims for a French type set up with d6-d5 but has well developed the problem B/c8. Against 2.c4 he liked 2..Nd7 but later Suttles preferred 2..e5 since Black has little in the endgame eg Zugic-Day, Ontario Closed 1997 went 3.de de 4.Qd8 Kd8 5.Nc3 Be6 6.b3 Nc6 7.Bb2 Kc8 8.0-0-0 Nf6 9.h3 Bc5 10.e3 Nfd7 11.Nf3 f6 12.Bd3 a5 13.g4 Be7 with a robust equality (.5-.5, 45). The only thing 'wrong' with 1..d6 is that White can play 2.e4 making a Pirc. Mar-25-11    Penguincw: Opening of the Day: Old Indian, Main line 1.d4 ♘f6 2.c4 d6 3.♘c3 e5 4.♘f3 ♘bd7 5.e4 Nov-01-13    Kikoman: <Opening of the Day> Old Indian, main line 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 d6 3. Nc3 e5 4. Nf3 Nbd7 5. e4 click for larger view Opening Explorer Aug-02-17    bla bla: Kasparov vs Larsen, 1982

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