The following entertaining game was played in that event and it features a mismatch where a 1775 rated player confidently launched an attack against his 2325 rated opponent, the 78-year old GM Arnold Denker.
The opening was the Stonewall Attack, one of those “systems” that was first advocated by Al Horowitz and Fred Reinfeld back in 1971 in their book How to Think Ahead in Chess: The Methods and Techniques of Planning Your Entire Game.
The book deals with one opening for white, the Stonewall Attack, and for black the Sicilian Dragon against 1.e4 and Lasker's Defense against the Queen's Gambit.
The Dragon has a whole lot more theory than ever presented in the book, but Lasker's Defense is a solid and fairly easy way to meet 1.d4.
The Stonewall Attack seems simple enough, but for some reason when you play it black never seems to roll over and died like the examples in the book.
Later on, in 1993, Andrew Soltis published The Stonewall Attack in which he proclaimed it to be, “one of the simplest to play and yet it is one of the rarest to be found in tournaments...at least on the master level.”
The problem is that in real life your opponents do not obligingly fall in with your plans. You cannot play the Stonewall by simply posting your pawns on c3, d4, e3, and f4 and then deploying your pieces in typical Stonewall fashion with Bd3, Nf3-e5, Nbd2, Qe2 or Qf3, O-O, etc. Even in the Stonewall you have to pay attention to your opponent's plans and act accordingly.
in the following game the average player got a reasonably good position, but then like we average players do, he managed to lose. At any level though a 550 point rating difference is just too much to overcome.
Azziem Mohammed1775–Arnold Denker23250–1D00US Open, Dearborn02.08.1992Stockfish 16
Stonewall Attack 1.d4 f6 2.e3 d5 3.d3 e6 3...c6 4.f4 4.c3 to
prevent ...Nb5 would allow 4...e5! g4 4...b4 5.f3 English Master F.J.
Lee and Jackson W. Showalter preferred 5.Bd2 with the idea of clearing the
c-file for the R at c1 and prepare b2-b4 which restricts black's main break ...
c5. xd3+ 6.cxd3 is an entirely different gane that what white expects when
he plays the Stonewall. 5.f3 b4 is dead level. There is little merit to
having the B on g4 because after Nbd2 and h3 white has a good position. 6.bd2 e6 7.0-0 a5 Komodo 8 64-bit: 1) 8.a3 xd3 9.cxd3
Tartajubow-opponent, Correspondence, 2015. The game was eventually drawn. 4.d2 A precaution against the possibility of ...Ne4 4.f4 e4 5.xe4 5.f3 c5 6.c3 c6 7.bd2 f5 and this is not what white is looking for when he
plays the Stonewall. 5...dxe4 and white's plans have been rendered
impossible. 4...bd7 5.f4 c5 6.c3 b6 6...d6 7.e2 b6 8.gf3 b7 9.e5 e4 10.xe4 dxe4 11.b5 xe5 12.dxe5 is equal. Sharbaf,M (2362)
-Lavasani,J (2032) Dubai UAE 2006, Note that white did not get the K-side
attack as is generally expected when the Stoewall is played. 6...a6 7.gf3 e7 8.0-0 b5 9.e5 b7 10.df3 h6 11.f5 exf5 12.xf5 0-0 13.d2 Neither
side can claim any advanrage. Campagnolo,F (1714) -Guara Neto,A (2060)
Florianopolis BRA 2022 7.f3 7.gf3 b7 8.0-0 c4 9.c2 e7 10.e5 0-0
This is the typical setup that white expects to reach when playing the
Stonewall. 11.f3 e8 This should have lost at once! 12.h3 12.xh7+
Unlike in the game, this scores the point. h8 12...xh7 13.h3+ g8 14.h5 h4 15.xh4 xh4 16.xh4 and white is winning. 13.h3 ef6 14.c2 g6 15.xg6+ g8 16.g3 wins for white. 12...f5 13.df3 b5 14.xd7 xd7 15.e5 White has only slightly better chances. Sushko,V-Kuznetsov,V Kiev 2004 7...b7 8.e2 In spite of all the glowing promises of those advocating the
Stownwall Attack, white has no real prospects of overwhelming blac's solid
defensive setyp. 8.g4 looks good, but it doesn't lead toi anything. g6 9.g5 h5 8.h3 h6 9.g4 d6 10.g5 hxg5 11.xg5 e7 followed by ...O-O-O is
slightly in black's favor. 8...e7 9.c2 Harmless and rather pointless. 9.g4 was worth a try, but after h6 10.h4 h5 11.g5 g4 12.g3 g6 This
closed position is completely equal. 9...c8 10.0-0 c7 11.g4 a8 A pecular move. The point seems to be to make ...Ne4 possible in the
event of 12.g5 12.g3 Now ...Ne4 loses a P. 12.g5 e4 13.xe4 dxe4 14.h3 0-0 15.g3 favors black after f5 16.gxf6 xf6 17.g2 g6 The e-Pawn
is safe and black is better. 12...0-0 13.g5 e8 In this position white
has equality, but no more. On his next move he confidently sacrifices a B, but
unfortunately it's unsound. There is no really promising continuation for
white, so he has to just keep amneuverubg and wait. A switch to the Komodo
Human engine did not reveal anything special...only maneuvering... 14.xh7+
Unsound...it's only good if black does not accept it. xh7-+ 14...h8 15.d3 Now the threat of Qh5+ and mate on h7 is very real, so... 15.h5 This looks lkogical, but it's nit quite good enough to force the win. df6 16.gxf6 xf6 17.e5 e8 18.f3 xh7 19.h5+ g8 20.g5 xg5 21.fxg5 d8 22.f4 g6 23.h6 f6 The defense has succeeded and the chances are equal.
15...g6 16.h4 d6 17.h5 with a cery dangerous attack. 15.h5+ g8 16.f3 g6 17.h6 g7 18.e5 xe5 19.fxe5 Now id white can get in Rf4 he will
have a winning attack. d8 19...a6 A pass to show white's threat. 20.f4 xg5 20...f5 21.xf5 gxf5 22.h4 mate next move. 21.xg5 d8 22.h6
with a decisicve advantage. 20.f6 e8 21.d2 f8 22.h3 a6 This
prevents white from getting his other R into play... not that Raf1 would
actually have caused black any serious problems. 22...a6 23.af1 c6 24.1f4 f5 25.xf5 exf5 26.h4 g7 27.h7 e6 28.h4 f8 White is a piece
down anf there is no way to continue his attack. 23.a4 d3 24.e4 xe4 25.f4 f5 White is now quite lsot. 26.xe4 26.xf5 xf5 anf there is no
way white can get the R to the h-file. 26...xg3 26...dxe4 wins, but it
could get a bit tricky. 27.xe4 g7 28.f6+ xf6 29.gxf6 cxd4 This P has
a great future! 30.f1 dxc3 31.xf5 31.xc3 xc3 32.bxc3 d2 Prevents
the Q from reaching h6. 31...cxd2 32.h6 d1+ 33.g2 g4+ 34.f2 c2+
mates 27.hxg3 27.h4 was his only chance. h5 28.xh5 gxh5 29.xh5
vut even here there is no attack and so after cxd4 30.f1 dxc3 31.bxc3 c5+ 32.h1 d4 33.g6 fxg6 34.xg6+ g7 the game is over. 27...dxe4 28.e3 cxd4 29.cxd4 c4 30.d1 30.f1 xd4 31.xd4 xd4+ 32.h1 xe5 is
hopeless for white. 30...g7 31.g2 c2+ 32.f2 Black resigned. 32...e3
is next. 0–1
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