Smith: e3 Poison, (kartoniert) BILD ZU KLEIN Csaba Balogh

Csaba Balogh

The Most Uncompromising Way to Attack the French Defence

Alexey Kuzmin was born in 1963

~ Alexander Delchev

Geburtstages am 23

Smith: e3 Poison, (kartoniert) BILD ZU KLEIN Csaba BaloghWhen Axel Smith was chasing his final Grandmaster norm, he decided he needed a change in his White opening repertoire. Instead of his usual approach of memorizing many concrete moves to try to force an advantage, he would focus on pawn structures and typical plans. The result was a repertoire based on a set up with the moves d4, Nf3, c4 and e3. It helped Axel Smith to the GM title, and led to the creation of e3 Poison. This repertoire can be played