Win With the Stonewall Dutch

About this book

The Stonewall Dutch is a traditional favourite amongst club players as it offers Black ready-made attacking plans on the kingside. As Grandmaster Bent Larsen has noted the Dutch also has the tendency to bring out the coward in opponents giving it an added practical sting. However up until the late 1980s the Stonewall wasnt fully trusted at grandmaster level despite its earlier use by Alekhine and Botvinnik. Blacks attacking plans were too one-sided and Whites methods too well worked out. The change came when a new generation of players including Nigel Short and Simen Agdestein showed that Black could handle his position in many other ways including play on the queenside and in the centre with the Stonewall structure stifling Whites attempts to generate play of his own. Agdestein in particular has continued to experiment with many new set-ups and move-orders for Black and this book contains a wealth of new recommendations and suggestions based on this work.