Secrets of the Rauzer Attack
29.08.2004 After finishing a couple of Variations in the Accelerated dragon, our GM trainer takes a look at one of the most important and most dangerous of White’s weapons – the Rauzer Attack! You can watch and listen to him live on the Playchess.com server in his Sunday night lecture.
Boris Alterman's Dragon series continues with the Secrets of the Rauzer Attack.
"After finishing a couple of Variations in the Accelerated dragon, let’s
take a look at one of the most important and most dangerous of White’s
weapons – the Rauzer Attack! Facing the Dragon line 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3
d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6
Vsevolod Rauzer, who was one of the most talented Soviet Masters, and who
was unfortunately killed in 1941 in the Second World War, found a very creative
plan, which is still one of the most venomous of White’s weapons against
Dragon!"
GM
Boris Alterman is 34, and lives in Israel. He was born in Kharkov,
Ukraine, where he started playing chess at the age of 7. His career highlights
include earning the IM title in 1991 and the GM title in 1992.He is the winner
of the following Open and GM tournaments: Haifa 1993; Bad Homburg 1996; Rishon
LeZion 1996; Beijing 1995 and 1997; Munchen 1992. His hobbies include computers
and swimming, his favourite food is Chinese, he speaks fluent Russian, Hebrew
and English.
Boris has worked for and against Garry Kasparov. In 1999 he assisted the world
champion in his spectacular Microsoft match Kasparov vs The World, and was
also part of the team that built up the web portal Kasparov Chess. In 2003,
on the other hand, he was part of the Deep Junior team that gave Kasparov a
run for his money in the New
York match.
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