Grünfeld in Cologne

I had not post much in the last days, as I've been in holidays. I enjoyed a nice trip visiting several German cities, Köln - Cologne, among them.

I came accross a beer garden whose name must be familiar to chess fans. Grünfeld is German for "green field" (or even the more appropiate "green square"), but for the chess player it evokes the Grünfeld Defence, a sequence 1.d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5, a favourite of Kasparov in the beginning of the 1990s.

Indeed Grünfeld or Gruenfeld is quite a normal-sounding German name and I would not have taken the picture if a nice Black Knight had not been there. By the way, you can see me in the reflection