Keres Defence

The Keres Defence (also known as the Kangaroo De-fence or Franco-Indian Defense) is a chess openingcharacterised by the moves:

1. d4 e62. c4 Bb4+

The opening is named for Estonian grandmaster PaulKeres.

1 HistoryThis opening was known since the 1840s and was playedby Henry Thomas Buckle in his fourth match game withJohann Lwenthal, London 1851.[1][2] The standard replytoday, 3.Bd2, was recommended by Howard Staunton.

2 DiscussionWhite can respond 3.Nc3, 3.Nd2, or 3.Bd2. The gameoften transposes to a Nimzo-Indian Defence, a DutchDefence, a Queens Gambit Declined, an English De-fence, or a Bogo-Indian Defence. 3.Nc3 is likely to trans-pose into one of those openings: 3...Nf6 (Nimzo-Indian),3...f5 (Dutch; Korn gives 3...Bxc3+ 4.bxc3 f5!,[3] playedby Buckle) 3...d5 (an unusual form of QGD), or 3...b6(English). Black has the same options after 3.Nd2, ex-cept that 3...Nf6 4.Nf3 is a Bogo-Indian.After 3.Bd2, Black can continue with 3...Bxd2+ into aline of the Bogo-Indian, and 3...a5 will also usually trans-pose to a Bogo-Indian when White plays Nf3. Or Blackcan allow White to play e4: 3...Qe7 4.e4 d5 (Black ob-tained a good game in LlanosHoman, San Luis Clarin1995 with 4...Nf6 5.a3 Bxd2+ 6.Nxd2 d6 7.Bd3 e58.d5 0-0)[4] 5.Bxb4 (5.e5 TimmanSpraggett, Montpel-lier 1985)[5][6] Qxb4+ 6.Qd2! Qxd2+ (if 6...Nc6 then7.Nc3!) 7.Nxd2 with slight advantage for White.[7]

3 See also

List of chess openings

List of chess openings named after people

4 ReferencesNotes

[1] Hooper, Whyld (1987)

[2] Lwenthal vs. Buckle, London 1851 Chessgames.com

[3] Korn, Walter (1982). Queens Pawn Games. ModernChess Openings (12th ed.). David McKay Company, Inc.p. 312. ISBN 0-679-13500-6.

[4] Schiller (1998), p. 227

[5] Timman vs. Spraggett, Montpellier 1985 Chess-games.com

[6] Matanovi 1996 (Vol A), p. 295, note 73

[7] Kasparov, Gary; Keene, Raymond (1982). Batsford ChessOpenings. American Chess Promotions. p. 47. ISBN 0-7134-2112-6.

Bibliography

Benjamin, Joel; Schiller, Eric (1987). Keres De-fence. Unorthodox Openings. Macmillan Publish-ing Company. pp. 6869. ISBN 0-02-016590-0.

Schiller, Eric (1998). Unorthodox Chess Openings.Cardoza Publishing. pp. 22728. ISBN 0-940685-73-6.

Hooper, David; Whyld, Kenneth (1987). KeresDefence. The Oxford Companion to Chess. OxfordUniversity Press. p. 164. ISBN 0-19-281986-0.

Matanovi, Aleksandar, ed. (1996). Encyclopaediaof Chess Openings. Vol A (2nd ed.). Yugoslavia:Chess Informant.

5 External links Chess Opening Explorer Chessgames.com

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