Tactics in the TromPOWsky

Do you play the Trompowsky but often face yourself in hard to navigate terrain, and then fall victim to some combination?

Or do you face the Trompowsky as Black and want to know which tactical pitfalls to avoid?

Part of the problem is that the Trompowsky is a very variable opening with a large amount of different pawn structures depending on the line that is being played.

Play your Tromp card - know the tactics in ADVANCE

In some lines the structure resembles an Open Sicilian; in other lines it resembles the Benoni. In some lines, the pawn structure is immediately altered, while in others there are no exchanges until well into the middlegame.

Because of this, a tactics course that divides the puzzles per opening line is ideal. Different pawn structures make different tactics possible!

This course contains tactics puzzles from real games played in the Trompowsky Attack (1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5). The puzzles were taken from games that ended after 25 moves or less and are divided into chapters by specific opening variation.

This means that you can train according to your repertoire (whether you're white playing the Tromp or you're black playing against the Tromp) and also that the puzzles are often tied to a specific pawn structure.

Every puzzle includes the full games' notation so you can see how the positions arose. You'll know exactly what kind of tactics to expect in each opening variation - now that's an advantage!

So, if you play the Trompowsky, this course will be a great way to train your pattern recognition in the positions that arise from this opening.

The course is structured into the following chapters/lines:

Chapter 1: 2. Bg5 g6 3. Bxf6 exf6
Chapter 2: 2. Bg5 d5 3. Bxf6 exf6
Chapter 3: 2. Bg5 d5 3. Bxf6 gxf6
Chapter 4: 2. Bg5 c5 3. d5 Qb6 4. Nc3
Chapter 5: 2. Bg5 e6 3. e4
Chapter 6: 2. Bg5 Ne4 3. Bf4 d5
Chapter 7: 2. Bg5 Ne4 3. Bf4 c5
Chapter 8: 2. Bg5 Ne4 3. Bh4
Chapter 9: 2. Bg5 Ne4 3. H4!?
Chapter 10: 2. Bg5 misc

Each chapter contains around 75-100 puzzles for a total of 875 trainable variations.

Sources used were the Chessbase Megabase for the games and Deep Fritz 13 for the analysis.