CLEARANCE - The Modernized Stonewall Defense Miscellaneous Chess Products f5 - Ikonnikov

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Only Ivanchuk is more like a lion

A tough position to handle—the dark-square bishop gains control of the long diagonal but White is far ahead in development

This volume takes the opening moves 1

CLEARANCE - The Modernized Stonewall Defense Miscellaneous Chess Products f5 - IkonnikovThe Dutch Defense is an old opening. A seriously old opening. So old, in fact, that in large part it currently has the reputation of not really causing a well prepared White player to fear losing. That is especially the case with the variant of it I am analysing in this book: the Stonewall (in which Black continues with eb and d5). I intend to show that that impression is mistaken. First things first: it's a very positional opening. In contrast to the