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+                The Modern Defence
+ 
+                                      by GM Nigel Davies
+ 
+ 
+             It was in the late 1970s that I first made the
+          aquaintance of this provocative counter-attacking defence.
+          Under the influence of Raymond Keene, a great many British
+          players were playing it around that time and I decided to
+          jump on the bandwagon. Later on it proved quite difficult to
+          jump off again and play more classical openings, but then
+          that's another story.
+             With his first two moves, 1...g6 and 2...Bg7 Black makes
+          no attempt whatsoever to follow the tried and trusted
+          classical precept of occupying the center. Instead he calmly
+          fianchettoes a bishop and argues the he can attend to things
+          like development later in the game.
+             Some practitioners of the Modern (Colin McNab and David
+          Norwood for example) like to try and close the position up
+          with ...c6 and possible ...d5. But I have my own
+          interpretation involving a fierce counterattack against the
+          d4 square.
+             Above all I want that bishop on g7 to breathe fire, to
+          strike terror along the h8-a1 diagonal. Sometimes I play
+          ...c7-c5, sometimes ...e7-e5, but always something against
+          the d4 square and with that long diagonal in mind.
+             There isn't enough time to show all the ins and outs of
+          this defence, but the following games show my interpretation
+          in action against a variety of White set-ups and how this
+          opening has served me faithfully in some critical games.
+          Amongst my victims with this opening are the likes of Bent
+          Larsen and Viswanathan Anand, but on this occasion I'll show
+          you the real crushes!
+             The first game was played in the last round of the
+          student team Championships in Graz 1981 in which the England
+          team was going for the silver medal....
+ 
+          Polajzer-Davies
+          Student Team Ch., Graz (Austria), 1981
+ 
+          1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.Nc3 d6 4.e4
+ 
+             According to the late Mikhail Botvinnik, setting up the
+          pawns on d4, c4 and e4 is the strongest answer to the Modern
+          Defence. I have usually preferred my `stock' recipe; a
+          counterattack against the d4 square.
+ 
+          4...Nc6! 5.Be3 e5! 6.d5 Nce7
+ 
+             Reaching a kind of King's Indian Defence in which the
+          fact that Black's knight has not been developed on f6 yet
+          means that he can sometimes play ...f7-f5 before bringing it
+          out. White takes immediate measures against this.
+ 
+          7.g4 c5 8.h4 Nf6 9.g5 Nh5 10.Be2 Nf4 11.Bf3 0-0 12.Nge2 f5
+          13.Qd2 Qa5 14.0-0-0 Rb8!!
+ 
+             One of the best moves I have ever played. The idea,
+          should White play quietly now, is to prise open the
+          queenside with ....b5 followed by ....a6. And there are
+          other points should White capture on f4.
+ 
+          15.Nxf4 exf4 16.Bxf4 fxe4 17.Bxd6
+ 
+             The line which most beautifully illustrates the power of
+          14...Rb8 is 17.Bxe4 Bxc3 18.bxc3 Rxf4 19.Qxf4 Qxc3+ 20.Kb1
+          (or 20.Bc2 Bf5 21.Rd2 Qa1+) and now 20...b5, opening up the
+          b-file. White, by the way, loses a piece after 17.Nxe4
+          Qxd2+.
+ 
+          17...Rxf3! 18.Bxb8 Rxc3+! 19.Kb1
+ 
+              Or 19.bxc3 Bxc3 20.Qc2 Qa3+ 21.Kb1 Bf5 followed by
+          22...e3.
+ 
+          19...e3 20.fxe3 Bf5+ 21.Ka1 Rc2! 0-1
+ 
+             White lost on time by he could equally have resigned.
+          22.Qxa5 is met by 22...Bxb2+ 23.Kb1 Rd2+ followed by mate.
+          I still count this as my most artistic miniature.
+ 
+             This next game was one of the wins which earned my first
+          Grandmaster norm in Oslo 1988. After a few careless moves in
+          the opening Black develops a murderous attack. White, by the
+          way, is not a patzer. These days he has a rating of around
+          2500 and is on the verge of becoming a GM.
+ 
+          Gausel,E-Davies,N
+          Oslo, 1988
+ 
+          1.d4 d6 2.e4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.Bc4 Nc6 5.Be3 Nf6 6.h3
+ 
+             Preventing 6...Ng4 but losing time for development.
+ 
+          6...e5 7.dxe5 Nxe5 8.Bb3 0-0 9.Qd2 b5!
+ 
+             White's neglect of development allows Black to take the
+          initiative.
+ 
+          10.f3 b4 11.Nd5 Nxd5 12.Bxd5 c6 13.Bb3 a5 14.a4 d5
+ 
+             Blasting open the center before White has got his cing
+          safe. If he had now  tried to remedy this with 15.0-0-0
+          there would follow 15...Qf6 and after 16.Bd4 there is
+          16...c5!, distracting the bishop from the defence of b2.
+ 
+          15.exd5 Nc4! 16.Bxc4 Bxb2!
+ 
+              Suddenly White is in desperate trouble; the threats
+          include 17...Bxa1 and 17...Bc3, not to mention 17...Qh4+.
+ 
+          17.Ne2 Qh4+
+ 
+             Even stronger than capturing the rook on a1, as that will
+          remain a threat.
+ 
+          18.Bf2 Qxc4 19.Rb1 Bc3 20.Nxc3 bxc3 21.Qd3 Re8+ 22.Kd1 Qa2!
+          23.Rc1 Ba6 24.Qxc3 Qxd5+ 25.Qd2 Rad8!  0-1
+ 
+            The final position shows the true extent of White's
+          misery.
+ 
+          Engedal,N-Davies N
+          Gausdal Peer-Gynt , 1990
+ 
+          1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 d6 4.f4 Nc6
+ 
+             I was later to abandon this move after Dragan Velimirovic
+          answered it with 5.Bb5 in a tournament in Vrnjacka Banja in
+          1991. Since then I have answered the Austrian Attack (4.f4)
+          with 4...e6 followed by ...Ne7, ...Nd7, ...b6 and ...Bb7,
+          obtaining a similar set-up to the game.
+ 
+          5.Be3 Nf6 6.Nf3 e6 7.Be2 0-0 8.0-0 Ne7 9.Nd2 b6 10.a4 a6
+          11.Qe1 c5
+ 
+             Black's usual way of challenging White's set-up from this
+          structure. Here it proves especially effective because White
+          has plalyed the rather artificial 9.Nd2.
+ 
+          12.Qf2 Bb7 13.Bf3 Qc7 14.a5 cxd4 15.Bxd4 b5 16.Bb6 Qc8
+          17.Rac1 Nd7 18.Bd4
+ 
+             18.Be3 was better, as now Black rips apart what is left
+          of White's center.
+ 
+          18...e5 19.Be3 f5!
+ 
+              The opening of the position proves good for Black as his
+          pieces are better placed. Note that White's king also proves
+          weak, a consequence of 4.f4!
+ 
+          20.g3 exf4 21.gxf4 b4 22.Nd1 Nf6 23.Qg2 fxe4 24.Nxe4 Nxe4
+          25.Bxe4 Bxe4 26.Qxe4 Qg4+ 27.Kh1
+ 
+             27.Qg2 Qf5 would also have been unpleasant for White.
+ 
+          27...Nf5 28.Qxb4
+ 
+             A suicidal pawn snatch but it is already rather difficult
+          to give White good advice.
+ 
+          28...Ng3+! 29.Kg1
+ 
+             Taking the knight allows 29...Qh3+ followed by 30...Qg3+
+          and 31...Rf5.
+ 
+          29...Nxf1+ 30.Kxf1 Qf3+ 31.Kg1 Rae8 32.Qd2 Rxf4!  0-1
+ 
+             White has had enough. 33.Bxf4 is answered by 33...Re2
+          threatening both mate and the queen.
+ 
+             For a period of about 10 years I played nothing but the
+          Modern, but in the late 1980s I started to branch out into
+          other openings. Even eating caviar every day can become
+          boring.
+             Yet faced with the prospect of having to win my last
+          round game for a GM norm in a tournament in Budapest, I
+          could hardly answer 1.e4 with 1...e5, after which I would
+          get a boring Four Knights or Ruy Lopez. The only chance was
+          the Modern Defence, and this was it's finest hour.
+ 
+          Godena,M-Davies,N
+          First Saturday Tournament, Budapest, May 1993
+ 
+          1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 d6 4.Nge2
+ 
+             The safe way of introducing the fianchetto line for
+          White, as after the immediate 4.g3 there is 4...Nc6 and if
+          5.Nge2 then 5...Bg4. After the text move I either play the
+          immediate 4...Nc6, or sometimes 4...a6 5.a4 Nc6.
+ 
+          4...Nc6 5.Be3 Nf6 6.h3 e5 7.dxe5 Nxe5 8.Ng3 0-0
+ 
+             The safe way to play it would have been 8...Be6 9.Qd2
+          Nc4, but given that I had to win this game I was not afraid
+          of danger.
+ 
+          9.Qd2 Re8 10.0-0-0 b5!?
+ 
+             A pawn for an open file - not a bad deal with opposite
+          wing castling. If White doesn't capture Black gets the c4
+          square for his knight on e5.
+ 
+          11.Bxb5 Bd7 12.Be2
+ 
+             After 12.f4 my opponent didn't like the look of 12...Bxb5
+          13.fxe5 Rxe5 14.Bd4 Qe7, which he felt gave me good
+          compensation for the sacrificed exchange. In the post mortem
+          we looked at 12.Ba6!? but then 12...Be6 wasn't clear.
+ 
+          12.... Qb8 13.f4 Nc6 14.Bf3 Qb4
+ 
+              Preparing to move a rook to b8 and threaten mate on b2.
+ 
+          15.a3 Qb7 16.e5 Rab8 17.b3
+ 
+              An alternative way to defend b2 was with 17.Na4, but
+          then Black has 17...dxe5 18.fxe5 Qb5! 19.exf6 Bxf6 20.b3
+          Rxe3 21.Qxd7 Bg5 and if 22.Kb1 then 22...Rxb3+.
+ 
+          17...dxe5 18.fxe5 Rxe5 19.Nge4 Qa6!
+ 
+             It is less good to play this move after a preliminary
+          exchange of knights on e4. Thus 19...Nxe4 20.Nxe4 Qa6 can by
+          met by 21.a4 after which White's  defences hold.
+ 
+          20.a4?
+ 
+             The decisive mistake. White should take this opportunity
+          to exchange on f6, as for the time being Black is forced to
+          recapture with the bishop. After Black's next move it
+          becomes possible to take back on f6 with the queen.
+ 
+          20...Na5! 21.Nxf6+ Qxf6!
+ 
+             The point, after which the latent threats along the long
+          h8-a1 diagonal prove decisive. Perhaps White thought that
+          his next move made the capture with the queen impossible,
+          but a serious disappointment is waiting.
+ 
+          22.Bd4 Qd6!
+ 
+             Ouch! Only now did he see that the intended capture of my
+          rook on e5 is met by 23...Qa3+ followed by 24...Nxb3.
+ 
+          23.Nb1 Rxb3!
+ 
+             KAPOW! White must kiss his castled position goodbye.
+ 
+          24.Bxe5 Qb6! 0-1
+ 
+             White has had enough. The threat is 25...Rb1+, the rook
+          is immune to capture because of the knight fork picking up
+          White's queen and after 25.Nc3 there is either 25...Nc4 or
+          25...Ra3, depending on Black's mood.
+
+ This event was brought to you by Warwick chess club (England)
+
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