chess-The Oxford Companion to Chess - First Edition by David Hooper & Kenneth Whyld

PAULSEN VARIATION 2,1I
Quiet .nd unssumitrS, Paulse. was a thinker
rather than a doer. He is erlrenely dimdena,
wrore sraudrcN, rarely speaking il not spoketr 10 .
Paulsen discovered a larger nunbe. oI oPening
ideas than any oI his @nlomporanes. Fo, the
atuck he @ntributed lo the s.orcE GAME. the
.iJ*NG GAMBIT. Ihe PAId€N ANACX. tbe PdLSEN
vARrATors ot the viema Game. and the louR
orcHts oENINc. For tbe defence he discovered
rhe nor FsuvsKy v^uroN. the r^u6N DEFENCE
of rhe KF-sIdzn cAMBrr. and the Pad*n
Variation of ihe sIoLraN DEBCE. He inlroduced
the pRc DEENCE and imProled Black's chances in
the MUzo cAMBrl and in sever.l lines ol the
His co.tnbutions Pere do1
connned to an odd move or inprovement here ard
there: he also inveated whole systens or day. He
inl.odu@d3 Ndinr[e RnNcHDEENCE (afte. 1 e4
e6 2 d4 .15). a nove that relilalized White\
tros.ecB $henno one else @uld think ufd0rthinP
teu;rrhan I exdr. ana t experimented w,rh 1e5.
later adoDEd bv NNzoMrscts. From the N.3M\L
FosrroN of rh; EvaNs cAMBrr he dcvelopeLl c