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Published Date: 03 July 2008
By John B Henderson
THE Petroff Defence is named after St Petersburg's Alexander Dmitryevich Petroff (1794–1867) and is also known as the Russian Defence. And nowadays it is very popular at the elite level, primarily as an easy way to draw with the black pieces.
One of its great practitioners is another defensive-minded Russian, Vladimir Kramnik, who turned defence into an art-form by adopting the Berlin Defence to surprisingly beat Garry Kasparov in 2000 to capture the world title.

Kramnik explained rece...

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  • Last Updated: 02 July 2008 7:46 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Chess & Bridge
 
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