@Kingscrusher-YouTube said in #20:
> Not sure about that - one hypermodern notion is that occupying the center can be a downside - so for example also in the Kings Indian Defence, and Gruenfeld, the opponent is invited to occupy the center. Later the occupation can be attacked. In the Alekhine defence, there are even fianchetto bishop variations where black later will be hitting the center hard with either d6, or sometimes even a d5 to provoke c5 and then later e5 is dangerous for White's center. A hypermodern opening to me includes things like the Alekhine Defence and Nimzowitsch Defence - as well as the King's Indian Defence and Gruenfeld. Wiki lists some hypermodern openings at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermodernism_(chess)
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> "Hypermodern openings include the Réti Opening, King's Indian Defence, Queen's Indian Defence, Nimzo-Indian Defence, Nimzowitsch Defence, Grünfeld Defence, Bogo-Indian Defence, Old Indian Defence, Catalan Opening, King's Indian Attack, Alekhine's Defence, Modern Defence, Pirc Defence, Larsen's Opening, and to a lesser degree the English Opening." - Wiki
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> There are quite a few notions of Hypermodern chess - but Breyer captured the idea that occupying the center can be weak with the famous quotation that after 1.e4 White's game is in its last throes.
it would have been surprising if a player like Alekhine who hated hypermodernists had invented a hypermodernist opening. he himself claims that this opening was a joke but that it ended up in a newspaper the next day. hypermodernism is close to artistic surrealism. Alekhine was a neo-romantic who was a fine psychologist
> Not sure about that - one hypermodern notion is that occupying the center can be a downside - so for example also in the Kings Indian Defence, and Gruenfeld, the opponent is invited to occupy the center. Later the occupation can be attacked. In the Alekhine defence, there are even fianchetto bishop variations where black later will be hitting the center hard with either d6, or sometimes even a d5 to provoke c5 and then later e5 is dangerous for White's center. A hypermodern opening to me includes things like the Alekhine Defence and Nimzowitsch Defence - as well as the King's Indian Defence and Gruenfeld. Wiki lists some hypermodern openings at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermodernism_(chess)
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> "Hypermodern openings include the Réti Opening, King's Indian Defence, Queen's Indian Defence, Nimzo-Indian Defence, Nimzowitsch Defence, Grünfeld Defence, Bogo-Indian Defence, Old Indian Defence, Catalan Opening, King's Indian Attack, Alekhine's Defence, Modern Defence, Pirc Defence, Larsen's Opening, and to a lesser degree the English Opening." - Wiki
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> There are quite a few notions of Hypermodern chess - but Breyer captured the idea that occupying the center can be weak with the famous quotation that after 1.e4 White's game is in its last throes.
it would have been surprising if a player like Alekhine who hated hypermodernists had invented a hypermodernist opening. he himself claims that this opening was a joke but that it ended up in a newspaper the next day. hypermodernism is close to artistic surrealism. Alekhine was a neo-romantic who was a fine psychologist