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Aggressive opening chess moves12/29/2023 ![]() 2.Qxd5 (Mieses-Kotrč Variation) 3.Nc3 Īfter 2.Qxd5, the most commonly played move is 3.Nc3 because it attacks the queen with gain of tempo. The rare gambit 2.c6 (the Blackburne-Kloosterboer Gambit) was played successfully by Joseph Blackburne on at least one occasion, but after 3.dxc6 is thought to be unsound and is almost never seen in master-level play. White normally continues 2.exd5 where Black has two major continuations: 2.Qxd5 and 2.Nf6 (the Modern Scandinavian). Carlsen used the opening as Black in a blitz game to defeat Viswanathan Anand at the 2019 Grand Chess Tour stop in Kolkata. ĭuring the sixth round of the 2014 Chess Olympiad at Tromsø, Magnus Carlsen chose the Scandinavian against Fabiano Caruana, and won Carlsen used the opening again to draw with Caruana at the 2016 Chess Olympiad at Baku. Viswanathan Anand as Black obtained an excellent position using the opening against Garry Kasparov, although Kasparov won the game. ![]() In 1995, the Scandinavian Defense made its first appearance in a world chess championship match, in the 14th game of the PCA final at New York City. Australian GM Ian Rogers has adopted it frequently starting in the 1980s. Danish GM Curt Hansen is also considered an expert in the opening. The popular name also began to switch from "Center Counter Defense" to "Scandinavian Defense" around this time. Danish grandmaster (GM) Bent Larsen, a four-time world championship candidate, played it occasionally from the 1960s onwards he defeated World Champion Anatoly Karpov with it at Montreal 1979, spurring a rise in popularity. Modern era Ī regular user from the 1950s onwards was Yugoslav International Master (IM) Nikola Karaklajic, but a lengthy period of non-support by top players ended by the 1960s, when former world championship finalist David Bronstein and women's world champion Nona Gaprindashvili played it occasionally. Petersburg 1914, and future World Champion José Raúl Capablanca won twice with it at New York 1915. Alexander Alekhine used it to draw against World Champion Emanuel Lasker at St. It was an occasional choice in this era for top players including Siegbert Tarrasch, Rudolph Spielmann, and Savielly Tartakower. Although the Scandinavian Defense has never enjoyed widespread popularity among top-flight players, Joseph Henry Blackburne and Jacques Mieses often played it, and greatly developed its theory in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 19th and early 20th centuries Īnalysis by Scandinavian masters in the late 19th century showed it is playable for Black Ludvig Collijn played the opening with success. It was also listed in the 1497 Lucena's book "Repetition of Love and the Art of Playing Chess with 150 Games". ![]() The Scandinavian Defense is one of the oldest recorded openings, first recorded as a fictional game between Francesc de Castellví and Narcís Vinyoles in Valencia around 1475 in what may be the first recorded game of modern chess.
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