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page 1 of 73; games 1-25 of 1,805  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Janowski vs Tartakower 0-1 33 1926 Semmering D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 2. Gruenfeld vs Przepiorka   ½-½ 18 1927 Kecskemet D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 3. Reti vs Tartakower 1-0 54 1928 Bad Kissingen D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 4. B Szijjarto Szabo vs B Hoenlinger   1-0 59 1930 Gyor D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 5. Alekhine vs Tartakower 0-1 74 1933 Olympiad D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 6. Riumin vs I Rabinovich 1-0 32 1934 Leningrad D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 7. J Dobias vs B Petkevic   0-1 32 1935 Kautsky mem 12th D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 8. H Steiner vs Abel Perez   1-0 53 1935 Mexican International Masters D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 9. I Rabinovich vs Goglidze   ½-½ 61 1935 Moscow D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 10. P Dubinin vs Kotov 1-0 35 1936 Giant Factory D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 11. Euwe vs S Landau   ½-½ 40 1936 Zandvoort D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 12. N Chernov vs H Heinicke   0-1 25 1936 Munich Olympiad D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 13. Alekhine vs Bogoljubov 1-0 58 1937 Bad Nauheim-Stuttgart-Garmisch D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 14. Kotov vs V Makogonov   1-0 50 1939 USSR Championship D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 15. Kotov vs Bondarevsky   ½-½ 37 1939 USSR Championship D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 16. Foltys vs V Winz   1-0 55 1939 Buenos Aires ol (Men) fin-A D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 17. Veresov vs V Makogonov 0-1 57 1940 USSR Championship D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 18. P Dubinin vs Bondarevsky 0-1 25 1940 USSR Championship D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 19. Kotov vs P Dubinin   0-1 45 1940 USSR Championship D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 20. Bogoljubov vs Foltys   0-1 60 1942 Munich D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 21. Konstantinopolsky vs V Makogonov   ½-½ 41 1943 Sverdlovsk D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 22. Stahlberg vs A Becker 1-0 48 1944 Buenos Aires D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 23. Ragozin vs Bondarevsky 1-0 58 1946 Match for the GM title D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 24. E R Lundin vs E E Book   ½-½ 31 1946 Stockholm 4647 D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 25. Saemisch vs A Rankis   ½-½ 27 1946 Augsburg 1st D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst  page 1 of 73; games 1-25 of 1,805

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Apr-21-04    Kenkaku: Spassky was a big proponent of this statistically drawish opening. Jul-05-04    zagor: Spassky played 98 QGD games with black and Tartakower was his favorite sub-variation. 77 of those games ended with draws. And the weirdest thing - same man was a huge proponent of King's Gambit, extremly non-drawish opening Jul-05-04    Shadout Mapes: I'm guessing Spassky played this when he didn't want a risk. Even Fischer played it on occasion. More comments are on Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (D59) if you're interested. Jul-05-04    zagor: Actually, before his match against Fischer, Spassky was warned by Korchnoi that Bobby could use 1.d4 as a suprise weapon. Boris just laughed and said: "Then I'll play Tartakower and he's got nothing". His bullet-proof defense failed when he needed it most. Jul-05-04    PizzatheHut: I thought the TMB variation was defined by 8. Rc1, but considering I'm not a big opening theorist, I'm probably mistaken. Jul-05-04    zagor: Rc1 defines anti-neo-orthodox variation. Aug-01-04    mad knight: When confronted with the QGD-Exchange, I'd like to transpose to the TMB since the Tartakover is my usual defence against the QGD and I don't like the cramped positions in the Exchange variation. Can White oppose this and if so, how? And what's the next best thing then? Thanks and play well! Jul-10-05    Isolani: "Notable exponents include Kasparov, Kramnik, Short, and Beliavsky - none of whom is usually happy just to draw with black." Starting Out: the Queen's Gambit p. 11 John Shaw Mar-12-06    fred lennox: One can see by the position above the main traits of this opening. Black's kingside pieces are developed and the king is in safety. White's king is not. With the position closed, this is not yet an issue, kingside development is not complete. White does have central control with 3 minor pieces to one of black. White's d pawn is secure and...b6 solves the problem of the Queens bishop. One trait to this opening is it does allow black to have both bishops, or at the least, does not give white the pair advantage. Oct-01-06    TheKid: Why does this opening draw so much at top level? It was created by Tartakower!! Jul-03-07    get Reti: I like this opening for black because b6 stops white from playing c5, and thus black doesn't have to play dxc5, surrendering the center. Sep-05-08    ravel5184: Whenever anybody loses as Black in this opening, they have to write down its name 100 times and hand it in Jul-25-12    Archswindler: At a glance, the statistics on here aren't very promising - only 16.6% chance of a win for black is enough to put me off any opening. That's from 1589 games (at the time of writing this comment). I don't expect to always win as black, but I do expect to be able to play for a win against a weaker player who only wants a draw with white, and a win percentage of 16.6% would suggest that it would be quite difficult to do so. However, it seems that statistics don't always mean very much. I checked a much larger database (about 8000 games in this variation) to see if the statistics came out the same. Overall, black's win percentage was about 20% in that database. I limited the search to games played since 1970, and with at least 20 moves, to cut out short GM draws and older games. Black's win percentage went up to 25%, which I think is decent enough. I then limited the search to games between players graded 1600-2250 (i.e. those I'm likely to play against), and black's win percentage then went up to 32%, with 33% for white and 35% for draws, from about 1000 games. That seems about as good as anyone can expect from any opening playing black. I suspect if you look at the results of any fundamentally sound opening at club level, the win percentages for white and black will come out roughly the same, with fewer draws than at master level (especially fewer short draws). Nov-27-12    ThrillerFan: One should not base their openings on statistics. It should be based on your style of play. Unless you are facing a 2700 player, statistics can be thrown out the Window. 1700 players don't know the suttlties of inverting moves 17 and 18 of some opening and how that might change the assessment from equal to Black's dead! Play what matches your style. If you are a wild tactican who likes the Modern Benoni and Sicilian Dragon, this opening isn't for you!

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