Opening Hacker Files: The Bogo-Dutch Popular Chess Openings Roger Smook (left) plays Gil

Roger Smook (left) plays Gil Ramirez

The third most popular white move and has been played by contemporary grandmasters Viswanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand

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presenting games from 1965 right up to the very last issue – Informant 158

Opening Hacker Files: The Bogo-Dutch Popular Chess Openings Roger Smook (left) plays GilThe Bogo Dutch is a hypermodern defense to 1. d4 which is based on 1. d4 e6 2. c4 f5. It is a hybrid opening that is based on the Bogo Indian Defense (1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Bb4+) and the Dutch Defense (1. d4 f5). Black tries their hardest to wrest control of the e4square from White by checking on b4, plus having a pawn on f5 at the same time. It is undoubtedly an underrated defense, to the point that most players, from super GMs all the way down