Giving back material to gain a positional advantage
His witty advice and insights into various aspects of chess clearly illustrate why he likens himself to the Alexander Solzhenitsyn of American chess
setbacks and successes of his career as a professional player
and an article by the originator "Botvinnik's debut practice
it also avoids symmetry or simplification
CLEARANCE - Tarrasch French I - Guimard Variation 3...Nc6 Chess King Chess Software Giving back material to gainThe Guimard Variation of the Tarrasch French (1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 Nd2 Nc6!?) provides Black with an opportunity to avoid many of the stale and uninteresting lines of the 3 c5 variations, and also sidesteps the lines most under scrutiny by theoreticians. Since Guimard's advocacy in the pre war years, a number of notable players have adopted the line, including Belyavsky, Botvinnik, Hubner, Hug, Korchnoi, Larson, Ljubojevic, Petrosian, Short, Vaganian,