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Petroff Defense [C42]
May 7, 2015
Petroff Defense [C42]
By Abby Marshall
To my surprise I have never covered the Petroff Defense in any of my columns. The reputation of the Petroff as a boring, drawish opening is starting to change. In the positions I want to look at in this column, early on Black trades a knight for a bishop to create an interesting imbalance.
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3
White may be mentally rehearsing the Ruy Lopez or the Italian Game, but instead of 2...Nc6 comes...
2...Nf6
[FEN "rnbqkb1r/pppp1ppp/5n2/4p3/4P3/5N2/PPPP...
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