Saint Louis Chess Club. Jonathan Schrantz invites you to let your Knights dance out early into an.Missing. The Black Knights' Tango is a chess opening beginning with the moves: 1. This position can also be reached by transposition, for example 1.c4 Nf6, 1.d4 Nc6, or 1.c4 Nc6. 1 History; 2 Basic ideas; 3 Possible continuations. 3.1 3. Mastercraft Maximum Rotary Tool Manual. Nf3; 3.2 3.Nc3; 3.3 3.d5. 4 References; 5 External links.Moves‎: ‎1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 Nc6Named after‎: ‎Black's first moves Nf6 and Nc6ECO‎: ‎A50Missing.

This is an excellent opening book by an experienced author. Valeri Bronznik looks at various unorthodox lines that might be tried against 1.d4 and recommends a particular response to each one. A circumspect response is usually the order of the day, not an overtly aggressive one. The book will be of great practical value to players who open with 1.d4 as White: they are its main, intended readership. Still, those who play the odd offbeat line against 1.d4, or would like to investigate a few: say the Polish ( 1b5), the Albin ( 1d5 2.c4 e5) or the Black Knights’ Tango ( 1Nf6 2.c4 Nc6), will find the book to be interesting and suggestive as well, a useful source of ideas.

Bronznik provides a sober examination of opening systems that some other analysts have dismissed as dubious or downright bad, whereas many (though not all, in my humble opinion!) have merit. Often, you end up with positions where both sides have problems to solve – even though White is allegedly ‘better’. The material is set out in three parts and 19 chapters.

Part 1 (chapters 1-8) covers various first moves for Black other than 1d5 or 1Nf6. Among the lines looked at are the Polish, the Englund Gambit ( 1e5) and the Dutch Benoni ( 1c5 2.d5 f5), which Jonathan Levitt has christened the Clarendon Court Defence; the German author prefers a more descriptive or literal moniker. As for Part 2 (chapters 9-14), there Bronznik examines a number of lines arising after the moves 1.d4 d5 2.c4 and you will find chapters devoted to the Albin, Marshall’s move 2Nf6, the Schara-Hennig Gambit ( 2e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.cxd5 cxd4) and various Stonewall setups (e.g. 2e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.e3 Bd6, as Ivanchuk played against Carlsen in 2009). Not the Noteboom though, which is a pity: one would like to have learned Bronznik’s thoughts on this double-edged variation. In the final part, Part 3 (chapters 15-19), Bronznik provides coverage of some systems following on from 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4; systems such as the Black Knights’ Tango, the Budapest Gambit ( 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 and now either the usual 3Ng4 or Fajarowicz’s 3Ne4; both moves are discussed) and the so-called Snake Benoni (e.g. 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 Bd6).