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Tartakower Makagonov Bondarevsky Variation.

So the order of names begins with the progenitor and ends with the last player to establish a theoretical development in it roughly speaking?

If so, we are unlikely to see The Carlsen gambit, Capablanca variation, Greco attack?

Paul McKeown wrote:Tartakower Makagonov Bondarevsky Variation.

But which Makogonov Vladimar or Mikail? When I lived in Azerbaijan I had a student from Nakchivan and told him all about the Makogonov brothers. It's a very small place where most people still know each other. He told me that after a weekend trip home, he took it upon himself to ask his family and friends what they knew of them, and after entire weekend of asking around, friends asking their friends family and so on, not a single person had ever heard of either of them!

"..and apparently also the Ufimtsev and Yugoslav"

Thanks - I forgot them! My father always called it the Yugoslav when he played it.

Albin-Chatard-Alekhine Attack in the French is a candidate.

Ufimtsev got the nod in Soviet literature because at the time the split with Yugoslavia was strong so that it was politically incorrect for them to use Pirc. But when I researched the opening for some BCM articles published around 1960, I eventually concluded that the real inventor of the system with g6/Bg7, delayed Ng8 development, and attack on d4 was a little-known Soviet master named Katalimov, who played the system in a USSR semi-final around 1958 which only had a handwritten tournament bulletin which I got from my friend Yacob Estrin. Katalimov's idea was spotted by Kotov and then he started to play it too.

Who was the first English player of some notion to spend an important part of his life in Australia?

George Gossip.

William Watts

John Wisker

Good tries, but it's someone else. A small hint: his brother was also active in chess (and more well known)

Tony Miles won the Australian Championship.

Was it JH Blackburne?

William Watts won the first official championship of Victoria in 1855, having emigrated about 1848, so it must be someone earlier. What is meant by a "player of some notion"?

I learn something new, thanks!
I am looking, however, for a player who played chess in England, and played in a tournament there.
Blackburne isn't the man either.