The opening has some independent variants, but often goes through diverter in a King's Indian Defense, Nimzoindische defense, Bogoindischen defense, Chigorin Defense, English Opening or Ragosin variant over.
The latter even played this opening against Garry Kasparov at the Chess Olympiad in Yerevan in 1996, but lost after 51 moves.īlack develops quickly, has a flexible pawn structure and is ready to hit back in the center with 3.… e7 – e5, e7 – e6 or d7 – d5. After that, the opening was played by many strong grandmasters, including Joel Benjamin, Larry Christiansen and Alex Yermolinsky. After disappearing from tournament practice for decades, defense was revived by International Master Georgi Orlov, who wrote a successful book on defense and named it Black Knight's Tango. The opening has its origins in the 1920s, when it was played by both the Mexican Grandmaster Carlos Torre (hence the name Mexican Defense) and the American Master Alexander Kevitz (hence the Kevitz-Trajkovic Defense).
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