Vasily Smyslov Lopez and English Opening as White and the Sicilian Defense and Nimzo-Indian Defense as Black. He made enormous contributions to chess opening theory in many openings, including the English Opening, Grünfeld Defence, and the Sicilian Defence. He has a variation of the Closed Ruy Lopez named for him: the line runs 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0-0 9.h3 h6. In the Grünfeld Defence, the continuation 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Qb3 dxc4 6.Qxc4 0-0 7.e4 Bg4 8.Be3 Nfd7 is known as the Smyslov Variation and remains a
Tactical decision game consisted of scenarios that described situations faced by the commanders of battalions, companies, and platoons. In 1982, the Education Center of the United States Marine Corps Development and Education Command used this package as the starting point for a series of three "instructional pamphlets": "Tactical Problems for Battalion Commanders", "Tactical Problems for Platoon Leaders/Company Commanders", and "Tactical Problems for Squad Leaders". In addition to twelve problems taken from "What Now, Lieutenant?", the "Tactical Problems ..." series contained sixteen games that were written expressly for the series by Chief Warrant Officer Bryan N. Lavender, USMC. Like the scenarios in "What Now,