Editing Dutch Defence (section)

==Practitioners==
The Stonewall Dutch enjoyed a resurgence of interest in the 1980s and 1990s, when leading [[Grandmaster (chess)|grandmasters]] (GMs) [[Artur Yusupov (chess player)|Artur Yusupov]], [[Sergey Dolmatov]], [[Nigel Short]], and [[Simen Agdestein]] helped develop the system where Black plays an earlier ...d5 and places his dark-squared bishop on d6.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Johnsen, Sverre  |author2=Bern, Ivar | title=Win with the Stonewall Dutch |url=https://archive.org/details/winwithstonewall00john  |url-access=limited  | publisher=Gambit | year=2010 | isbn= 978-1-906454-07-4 | page=[https://archive.org/details/winwithstonewall00john/page/n5 6]}}</ref> This setup, termed the Modern Stonewall, has remained more popular than the traditional early ...Be7.

[[Magnus Carlsen]] has used the Stonewall to score wins against [[Viswanathan Anand]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Anand Hits The Wall |url=http://chess-news.ru/en/node/18078|access-date=12 February 2018}}</ref> and [[Fabiano Caruana]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Shamkir R3: Carlsen shows who's boss|url=https://chess24.com/en/read/news/shamkir-r3-carlsen-shows-who-s-boss|access-date=12 February 2018}}</ref>

[[Simon Williams (chess player)|Simon Williams]] is one of the leading practitioners of the classical Dutch and wrote more than one book on the opening.<ref>
*{{cite book
 | author=Williams, Simon
 | title=Play The Classical Dutch
 | year=2003
 | publisher=Gambit Publications
 | isbn=978-1-901983-88-3}}
*{{cite book
 |author1=[[Richard Palliser|Palliser, Richard]] |author2=Williams, Simon |author3=Vigus, James | title=Dangerous Weapons: The Dutch
 | year=2010
 | publisher=Everyman Chess
 | isbn=978-1-85744-624-1}}
*{{cite book
 | author=Williams, Simon
 | title=Killer Dutch - The Book
 | year=2013
 | publisher=GingerGM and EPlus Books
 | isbn=978-1-927179-15-4}}
*{{cite book
 | author=Williams, Simon
 | title= The Killer Dutch 
 | year=2015
 | publisher=Everyman Chess
 | isbn= 9781781942420}}</ref>