Robert Ris’ Fast and Furious: 3.h4 against the King's Indian and Grünfeld

by Robert Ris
9/30/2021 – This week, well-known Dutch trainer Robert Ris looks at the move 3.h4 against the King's Indian and Grünfeld - a bold and aggressive push that recently has become popular and that Black seems to find surprisingly hard to counter. | "Fast and Furious" is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
Pattern recognition is an important tool in modern chess, as it helps you to understand better the characteristics of a position. Particularly when you have been confronted with a surprise opening system played by your opponent, it helps when you can just

A couple of weeks ago we looked at the latest developments with the move 3.h4 against the King's Indian and Grünfeld, and this week another fascinating game with this line was played at the European Club Cup.

Russian GM Alekseenko managed to win a spectacular miniature against the Ben-Oni setup GM Markus Ragger from Austria opted for. A game we certainly couldn't miss!

Exercise: Black has just played 13...Qf6. What is White's most precise continuation here?

 
K. Alekseenko - M. Ragger, 36th ECC Open, Struga 2021
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Robert is an International Master who mostly spends his time training and coaching talented youngsters. On the PlayChess server The Fast and the Furious is a popular show where he explains sharp opening lines for a wider audience. He is also a well-known ChessBase author who produced numerous DVDs and regularly contributes to ChessBase Magazine as well. Since 2015 he is the organizer of the Dutch Rapid Championships in his home town Amstelveen. He has started a YouTube channel with chess analysis as well.

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