The Petroff Defence

Maxim Chetverik

• Publisher: Popular Chess
• Year: 2005
• eBook ISBN: 9781781942895

Until a few years ago, the Petroff was opening that was favored by a few top Grandmasters, including Anatoly Karpov and Artur Yusupov. However, the last few years have seen a dramatic rise in its popularity, and it now provides battlefields for many top clashes of the modern elite players, including Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand, Leko, Topalov, and England's Michael Adams. This is bound to have a positive effect on its popularity at club level. In this book, openings experts Alexander Raetsky and Maxim Chetverik study the typical plans and tactics for both White and Black in this complex opening. Using illustrative games, the authors provide up-to-date coverage of a line that has experienced a major overhaul in the last decade.

Table of contents

• Bibliography
• Introduction
• 1 3 Nxe5: The Main Line with 8 c4
• 2 3 Nxe5: The Main Line with 8 Re1
• 3 3 Nxe5: Black Plays 6 ... Bd6
• 4 3 Nxe5: Deviations from the Main Line
• 5 3 Nxe5: Fourth and Fifth Move Alternatives for White
• 6 3 d4: The Main Line
• 7 3 d4: 5 ... Bd6 and 5th Move Alternatives for Black
• 8 3 d4: Fourth Move Alternatives
• 9 3 d4: Black Plays 3 ... exd4
• 10 Third Move Alternatives for White
• Index of Complete Games
• Aagaard-Legky, Budapest 1996
• Alekhine-Rabinovich.A, Moscow 1918
• Anand-Gelfand, Moscow 2004
• Anand-Hübner, Dortmund 1992
• Anand-Mishra, India 1988
• Anand-Shirov, Linares 2000
• Anand-Shirov, Moscow 2001
• Areshchenko-Mista, Cappelle la Grande 2003
• Bonch-Osmolovsky - Baranov, Moscow 1954
• Burkov-Raetsky, Correspondence 1985
• Cabrera-Collas, Malaga 2003
• Dolmatov-Mamedyarov, Moscow 2002
• Dolmatov-Raetsky, Podolsk Voronezh 1992
• Elizarov-Raetsky, Belorechensk 1989
• Firman-Bick, Stratton Mountain 2003
• Grischuk-Adams, Halkidiki 2002
• Grischuk-Gelfand, Wijk aan Zee 2002
• Grischuk-Pavasovic, Istanbul 2003
• Gurevich.V-Meijers, Germany 1999
• Herrera- Perez.Ro, Varadero 2000
• Howell.J-Makarychev, Frunze 1989
• Ivanchuk-Shirov, Dortmund 1998
• Kasparov-Anand, Linares 2000
• Kasparov-Ivanchuk, Debrecen 1992
• Kasparov-Karpov, Moscow 1981
• Kasparov-Shirov, Wijk aan Zee 2001
• Khalifman-Atalik, Halkidiki 2002
• Kotronias-Motylev, Moscow 2004
• Kovalev-Rozentalis, Glogow 2001
• Kupreichik-Yusupov, Minsk 1987
• Lasker.Em-Marshall, St Petersburg 1912
• Lastin-Najer, Elista 2000