War and Peace - Chess Games of Leo Tolstoy
Channel: TuskerChess
Date: 2013-09-15

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This was a correspondence game so it is possible that it was subsequently analysed by more than just Count himself as his son was also a fairly strong chess player.

Correspondence games were very common during those days and they used to analyse games in a group in club v/s club games.

1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 Bg4 5.Bxc4 e6 6.Qb3

So game begins as Sergey Lebedev offered the Queen's gambit to Count Tolstoy and he happily accepted it. After white's 6th move they are into Queen's Gambit Accepted QGA: Janowski-Larsen Variation with Queen on b3.

Dawid Janowski was their contemporary but theory was developed to great depths much later by Bent Larsen in these lines. Larsen was the strongest player from Scandinavia in pre Magnus Carlsen era.

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