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page 1 of 11; games 1-25 of 260  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. A Bannik vs V Koval   0-1 58 1954 UKR-ch C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 2. V Sherbakov vs Furman 0-1 35 1955 USSR Championship C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 3. B Milic vs Spassky 0-1 51 1955 2nd World Student Team-ch C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 4. A Medina Garcia vs Szabo 0-1 53 1955 Gothenburg Interzonal C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 5. A Medina Garcia vs Spassky 0-1 32 1955 Gothenburg Interzonal C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 6. A Laurencena vs Shocron   ½-½ 41 1955 ARG-ch C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 7. Vasiukov vs G Borisenko   ½-½ 42 1956 URS-ch sf C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 8. Y Kotkov vs Korchnoi   ½-½ 25 1956 Tbilisi 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. Y Kotkov vs Krogius   ½-½ 45 1956 Tbilisi ½f-USSR ch C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 11. B Milic vs Petrosian   ½-½ 19 1956 YUG-URS C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 12. Bronstein vs Wade   1-0 40 1956 Moscow ol (Men) fin-A C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 13. V Ciocaltea vs G Barcza 0-1 40 1956 Moscow ol (Men) fin-A C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 14. Pachman vs E Walther   ½-½ 20 1957 Dublin Zonal C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 15. B Djurasevic vs E Walther   ½-½ 59 1958 13th olm qual. group 4 C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 16. R Flores Alvarez vs M S Grunberg   1-0 67 1959 Santiago C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 17. J Sherwin vs Benko   0-1 33 1959 60th US Open C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 18. Gligoric vs Benko 1-0 55 1959 Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade Candidates C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 19. Keres vs Benko 1-0 21 1959 Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade Candidates C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 20. C B van den Berg vs Gruenfeld   ½-½ 34 1961 Hoogovens C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 21. Tal vs Robatsch 1-0 41 1963 Capablanca Memorial 2nd C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 22. Gufeld vs Kholmov   ½-½ 33 1963 USSR Championship C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 23. A Bannik vs V Shiyanovsky   ½-½ 15 1964 UKR-ch C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 24. Ivkov vs Gufeld 1-0 31 1964 Sarajevo C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 25. Ivkov vs L Lengyel   1-0 57 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense  page 1 of 11; games 1-25 of 260

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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? Aug-17-10    rapidcitychess: <bishop><why doesn't the knight go to d7 in the first place?> I think it might be illegal. <1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nd7!> A joke of course, you could get on d7 by playing the Philidor though. Aug-02-11    wuvmuffin72: I've noticed that Carlsen, Kamsky, Svidler, Kasparov, Karpov, Beliavsky, Spassky, Topalov, Kramnik and Anand have all played the Breyer. Aug-02-11    MaxxLange: the backwards redeployment of the Knight must be playable only because White's development is slow in the Closed Ruy I guess it is also an anti-move against the White d4-d5 idea, since the Knight just goes to d7 and then c5 Jan-19-13    Tigranny: Is the Breyer more solid than the Chigorin? I've been playing the Chigorin without success recently and wanna try the Breyer soon. Jan-19-13    perfidious: <Tigranny> Here are some reasons why even top players chanced their arms with Breyer's bizarre-looking 9....Nb8 over the old Chigorin line: Geller vs Smyslov, 1970 Karpov vs Spassky, 1973 and Karpov vs Unzicker, 1974. There was also this Breyer (Karpov vs Spassky, 1973) which Spassky lost before the game with Karpov noted above. Mar-11-14    gezafan: Boris Spassky has played this opening with great success during his career. It's a solid opening. Positional players might like it. Karpov played it at one time.

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