The menacing Colle & Zukertort System for the Club Player

The Colle-Koltanowski System (c3)

In this chapter, we turn to the Colle–Koltanowski System. Named after Belgian masters Edgard Colle and George Koltanowski, who popularised it in the 1920s,...

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Contents

1 Introduction

2 The Colle-Koltanowski System (c3)

2.1 Introduction to White’s basic attacking setup: Colle-Burger

2.2 Various tactical motifs: Colle-Delvaux

2.3 Greek gift: Colle-O’Hanlon

2.4 e4-e5 attacking ideas: Koltanowski-O’Hanlon

2.5 e4-e5 Black’s long-term problems: Maroczy-Singer

2.6 Playing against IQP: Koltanowski-Defosse

2.7 An early …cxd4, exd4: exploiting the e5-square: Ivanisevic-Peng

2.8 Plan dxc5 & b4 – Power of Bishops: Hoexter-Pibernik

2.9 Meran type of ideas with reversed colours: Koellner-Polaczek

2.10 Queenside Majority – Full Board Pressure!: Tartakower-Domenech

2.11 Black plays an early …c5-c4: Przepiorka-Nimzowitsch

2.12 Ne5 & f2-f4 kingside attack: San Marco-Biro

2.13 The Initiative: Lakdawala-Akobian

2.14 Open Centre: Gomez-Martinez

3 Modern Classics

3.1 Rook Lift: Wei Yi-Vidit

3.2 Colle System in World Championship match!: Ding Liren-Nepomniachtchi

3.3 Triangle Variation Reversed – Queenside vs Centre, Basic ideas: Ju Wenjun-Lei Tingjie

3.4 Triangle Variation Reversed – Queenside vs Centre, Modern Theory …g7-g5!?: Abdusattorov-Ding Liren

4 The Zukertort System (b3)

4.1 Power of White’s Bishops: Jussupow-Scheeren

4.2 Super GM vs. Amateur – basic ideas explained: Jussupow-Uurits

4.3 A Free Attack!: Maroczy-Blake

4.4 How to anticipate Black’s defensive measures: Bruzon-Anand

4.5 A sensational new interpretation of the Zukertort!: Carlsen-Korobov

4.6 c4-d4 vs. d6-e6 attacking plans for White: Colle-Gruenfeld

4.7 …Ba3 idea, a model game for Black and improvements for White: Bogoljubow-Capablanca

4.8 A repertoire against the King’s Indian: Nakamura-Idani

4.9 A repertoire against Benko/Ben-Oni: Efimenko-Hnydiuk

5 Exercises

5.1 Exercise 1

5.2 Exercise 2

5.3 Exercise 3

5.4 Exercise 4

5.5 Exercise 5

5.6 Exercise 6

5.7 Exercise 7

5.8 Exercise 8

5.9 Exercise 9

5.10 Exercise 10

6 Repertoire Training

7 Practice Positions

8 Outroduction

9 Bonus