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The Queen's Gambit & Catalan for Black Lasha Janjgava
Publisher: Gambit Publications

In it, experienced tournament players and experts in each specific opening will teach you what you absolutely have to know about the Slav, the Catalan, the Classical Queen's Gambit, the Chigorin Defence, etc. €�It's actually pretty difficult to prepare for me because you don't The underdog Christiansen promised to bring the fight to top-rated Kamsky, but after 75 moves of creative play, Kamsky liquidated the last of black's drawing chances. Black has two main approaches to choose between: in the Open Catalan he plays dxc4 and can either try to hold onto the pawn with b5 or give it back for extra time to free his game. D4, including a Queen's Gambit Accepted, Catalan, Pirc, Benoni, and another King's Indian in 2008. The Catalan is a chess opening which can be considered to be White adopting a mixture of the Queen's Gambit and Réti Opening: White plays d4 and c4 and fianchettoes the white bishop on g2. Now, interested in the Queen's Gambit Declined as Black, I find the opening worth studying. Grandmaster Sadler explains the key ideas behind the Queen's Gambit Declined, one of Black's most dependable responses to the queen's pawn. 2) Do we really need to do “King's Indian”, “Queen's Indian”, “Nimzo-Indian” (Which should be paired with QID) and “Queen's Gambit Declined”, and then tack on a Black vs 1.d4 Repertoire? Boris Gelfand played a Catalan opening against Wang Hao. This book provides a repertoire for Black with the ever-popular Queen's Gambit Declined. White can then aim for an early Qb3 to apply pressure on the Queenside in general and the b7 pawn in particular (although even here White needs to know something about the Queen's Gambit Accepted as Black can transpose to it with 4dxc4 ). In recent years, Krush has trotted out a variety of defenses to Zatonskih's 1. 7) King's Indian 8) Nimzo-Indian/Queen's Indian/Catalan 9) Queen's Gambit Declined 10) Queen's Gambit Accepted. A common opening sequence is 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 ECO codes E01-E09 are for the Catalan. 'I think the perception of the Queen's Gambit Declined as a stodgy response for Black is quite unfounded and I think the Queen's Gambit Declined for Black is about to experience a revival'. He present a repertoire for Black based on the initial moves 1 d4 d5 2 c4 e6 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 Bg5 Nbd7 The GM Lars Schandorff: Five variations of the QGD; Open and Closed Catalan IM Sam Collins: QGD Semi-Tarrasch and four variations of the Slav Defence. The Colle is mainly effective against 1 d4 Nf6 2 Nf3 e6 and 1 d4 It can be as effective as the famous Catalan Bishop, only nudged along to the dark squares. Opening Cox also demonstrates how to play against White's other tries, including the Exchange Variation, Catalan and Bf4 lines. We saw one of the first Queen's Gambit of the tournament, which looked pretty safe for black.