
This advantage does give White a number of options, including playing "colors reversed" openings with an extra move that Black doesn't have. Hence, "hypermodern" openings beginning with knight moves seem to work better for White, who has the advantage of the first move. Alekhine's Defense variation, understanding white's overextended pawns, black's multiple early knight movesīut if White opens 1. Instead black tries to attack the center with this minor pieces from the sides and then once the foundation is in place, then looks to undermine the center control that white usually has. The disadvantage to Black of moving the knight around seems to offset whatever disadvantages White may incur by advancing his pawns. The Grunfeld Defense is a hypermodern defense, meaning that it doesn’t try to control the center early on with his pawns. e4, to provoke further White advances, and (presuambly), weaknesses.

Then wait till the opponent commits his pawns to (his) fourth rank (your fifth) before deciding when to move yours to your fourth rank.Īn "extreme" example is Alekhine's defense, when Black plays 1. So the idea is to move out knights first, then pawns to the third rank, followed by bishops, etc. The theory behind this is that center pawns on the fourth rank (or further) can become weak as well as strong. Maybe we should look forward to play the new and modern chess, look to the future Even blue deep in his games chose Nf3 as his opening. An example of this kind of play is his own Reti Opening.

One of the early pioneers, if not the actual founder of the Hypermodern style was Richard Reti, early in the 20th century. THE task of revising Modern Chess Openings has been both arduous and pleasant arduous because of the almost endless ramifications of modern First published over a half-century ago, this is a completely revised and updated edition of the book that has been the standard English language reference on chess openings.
