Svetushkin: The Ultimate Anti-Grünfeld Strategie GAME 15 - R

GAME 15 - R

Caruana (2807) - Ding Liren (2755)

In this updated version of Moskalenko's 2013 book of the same name

which was written in collaboration with his trainer

Each of these invaluable maxims is illustrated with an annotated chess position

Svetushkin: The Ultimate Anti-Grünfeld Strategie GAME 15 - RBy playing 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. f3, White kills three birds with one shot. First of all, this is a natural way of seizing space. The second merit of 3. f3 is that it throws the Grnfeld fans out of their main repertoire. The third point is that it allows White to delay the development of his queen's knight. While in most systems its natural stand is on c3, against c5 plans it may go to d2 or a3, leaving c3 free for the other knight. Of course, Black