KRAMNIK'S KITCHEN

CHEF DE CUISINE
Thanks to Vladimir Kramnik an old line against the Grünfeld Indian has come back into fashion.
White's natural set-up invented by Kasparov (14.Ke1) is solid, but by no means harmless, as is shown by the chef de cuisine himself.

A SALTY RECIPE
No bark, but a lot of bite! How to push your opponent to the edge at little risk of losing.
Assistant cook Evgeny Bareev supplied Vladimir Kramnik with a salty recipe in the Queen's Gambit Accepted.

ONE MORE FLAVOUR
The Rubinstein Variation of the Nimzo-Indian is the home of several types of position. Vladimir Kramnik added one more flavour in his match against Garry Kasparov: a radical and risky pawn sacrifice!

37 NIC Surveys Yearbook 58

• Sicilian Defence: Polugaevsky Variation 10.Qe2 by Karolyi
• Sicilian Defence: Dragon Variation 9.Bc4 by Van der Tak
• Sicilian Defence: Perenyi Attack 9.Bg2 by Van der Weide
• Sicilian Defence: Four Knights Variation 7.Bf4 by Van der Tak
• Sicilian Defence: Sveshnikov Variation 9.Bf6 by Bosch
• Sicilian Defence: Taimanov Variation 8...Bb4 by Anand, Langeweg
• French Defence: Burn Variation 7...b6 by Iordachescu, Itkis
• French Defence: Rubinstein Variation 7...c5 by Gulko, Doggers
• French Defence: Tarrasch Variation 3...Be7 by Nisipeanu, Stoica
• Caro-Kann Defence: Panov Variation 5...e6 by Belikov, Pliester
• Caro-Kann Defence: Classical Variation 4...Bf5 by Karolyi
• Petroff Defence: Marshall Variation 6.Bd3 Bd6 by Dokhoian, Van de Mortel
• Ruy Lopez Opening: Classical Defence 5.Ne5 by Lukacs, Hazai
• Ruy Lopez Opening: Mller Variation 5...Bc5 by Anand, Topalov, Pliester
• Ruy Lopez Opening: Open Variation 9.Nbd2 Bc5 by Van der Tak
• Scotch Opening: The Scotch Gambit 4.Bc4 by Glek, V.Gurevich
• Chigorin Defence: Exchange Variation 3.cd5 by Morozevich, Bosch
• Queen's Gambit Declined: Blackburne Variation 5.Bf4 by Pelletier
• Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation 3...Be7 by Dautov
• Slav Defence: Meran Variation 9...b4 by Kuijf
• Slav Defence: Meran Variation 10...c5 11.d5 by Pedersen, Krasenkow
• Queen's Gambit Accepted: Varna Variation 7.Bb3 by Vilela
• Queen's Gambit Accepted: Spassky's Quiet System 7.dc5 by Kramnik, Bareev, Langeweg
• Catalan Opening: Catalan Accepted 5...Nc6 6.0-0 by Gleizerov
• Nimzo-Indian Defence: Rubinstein Variation 8...Nbd7 by Kramnik, Pliester
• Nimzo-Indian Defence: Vienna Variation 7.Bc4 by Lukacs, Hazai
• Nimzo-Indian Defence: Kmoch Variation 4.f3 Nc6 by Tiviakov
• Queen's Indian Defence: Nimzowitsch Variation 5.Qa4 by Dautov
• Grunfeld Indian Defence: Fianchetto Variation 6...dc4 by Nadirkhanov
• Grunfeld Indian Defence: Exchange Variation 7.Nf3 by Kramnik, Karolyi, Van der Sterren
• King's Indian Defence: Smisch Variation 6.Be3 e5 by Bosch
• King's Indian Defence: Fianchetto Variation 8...e5 by Marin
• Schmid Benoni: A Bishop Check 6.Bb5 by Markowski, Krasenkow, Van der Weide
• English Opening: Keres Variation 3...c6 by Adla, Glavina
• English Opening: Symmetrical Variation 7.Re1 by Tukmakov
• English Opening: The Anti-Grnfeld 4.Qa4 by Rowson
• Reti Opening: Capablanca Variation 3...Bg4 by Yusupov, Van der Sterren
  
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