ahah, the name of the opening IS Grünfeld, as it's named after a player called thus... but grün is german for green and feld is german for field xD... very creative, wallflower^^...

"Greenfield"? is that a translation of Grünfeld?

immer ein beliebtes post !! ^^

This is correct . With a knight on c6 white would have compensation ! (Black would surely wish the pawn back on b7 :- ) )

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Nevertheless white d-passed pawn should be stopped as soon as possible. And best through a knight

 It's hard for me to judge the A) position, the d6 blockader seems useful both in defense of f7, e4 and attack in the Q-side but I don't know if it has enough time for the attacking operations. "Changer les bloqueurs" seems out of the question but what about 1. Nd4 and 2. Nd4-c6, it's not a simple position...

 Let's see; 1. Nd4 Rfe8 (1... g6 2. Qxh6 Qc4 3. Qf4 or Qd2..., hhmm...) 2. Rxe8 Rxe8 and 3. Nf5?! Qc2!? 4. Rc1? Nxf5 -+... Did I miss too much?

 It seems to me that "Much Ado for nothing!"

 The name doesn't need to be translated but the translation is not harmful... And Grunfeld (Gruenfeld) Defense is a very fertile green field, too much fertile for amateurs like me... KID also is a jungle!! Not even to mention the city blocks of NID plus QID plus Catalan... I speak from the point of view of the second player of course. QGA and QGD are enormous city blocks also, maybe we have to reconsider Semi-Tarrasch! Chigorin Defense is interesting also but I would like very much to visit the Abrahams-Noteboom Slav... I don't like Bogo-Indian and I am afraid of Benonis and Old Indian... Green fields!...

 Nimzowitsch (as pointed out) presents a great deal of theory in "My System" about passed pawns (and blockade, blockaders and their functions, evaluation of blockade also) and then about even more complicated pawn structures as pawn chains and (in Part II) isolated pawns... His presentation is extremely useful and passed pawn positions are very rich in content, both strategical and tactical.

So if the name of the Grünfeld Defense needs to be translated to Greenfield, why don't you translate your own username, mauerblume, to Dead or Wilted Flowers?

Or we could just leave everything as is.

PS, good article.

gud artical

The pawnstructure in the game was from  Semi- Tarrasch opening with 6.e4  Nxc3 7. bxc3

http://de.video.yahoo.com/watch/5835917/15272366

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrasch_Defense#Semi-Tarrasch_variation

But with the pawn on g6 it could also come from

D80: Gruenfeld Defense

to be more exactly : from the Exchange variation in Gruenfeld Defense

( grün Feld is a German word and means translated green field :-) )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnfeld_Defence

i always wanted to be good in handling my pawns,  my lost games were lost of time because i had hard time in analyzing pawn structure..  hope to get more tips!

Nice blog. I have used centre pawns to gain tactical advantages like the way you said there. However, I know see how black should have responded early to the threat of the centre pawns. Thanks I feel I have learned something from this.