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The Queen's Gambit & Catalan for Black by Lasha Janjgava

The Queen's Gambit & Catalan for Black Lasha Janjgava ebook
Page: 98
Publisher: Gambit Publications
ISBN: 1901983374, 9781901983371
Format: pdf

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 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2, though the opening can arise from a If black does not know the theory in details, it is easy for white to get advantage. Nf3 Nf6 White can still get his English or Catalan, but now we see the possibility that Black is playing for a Queen's Indian. Sure, Black can deviate, for example with 3a6, forcing you into some Queen's Gambit Accepted lines, but these are more manageable than the whole of QGA theory after 3. The minimum openings I'd recommend for black would be stuff like the Benko Gambit, Scandinavian Defenses (although I think the Scandinavian is a really lame opening) and so forth, while with white you can still get away with the c3 Sicilian, and 3.Nc3, 3. D4 … The Catalan still looks OK, but now there is a hint of a Queens' Gambit. By Lasha Janjgava, Graham Burgess Editorial Reviews About the Author Lasha Janjgava is a grandmaster from Georgia, and President of the Tbilisi Chess Federation. After this FM Elliot Liu (2nd Place, 2 Points): In a quiet opening that looked like it was heading for a Catalan-type of position, things suddenly became more double-edged once the Pawn structure changed and FM Zimmer played the creative Pawn sacrifice 13. Rebel-Yell wrote on 07/12/11 at 13:35:55: What if white plays 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.g3 e6 4.Bg2? Black doesn't have to allow a transposition to a Queen's Gambit Catalan. 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? 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. Nxf5 would follow if he took Black's Queen by playing 35. Chernev finds no flaw in opening the d-file while White's rook eyes Black's queen along it. 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. 4 Nc-Three: Gambit in the Queen's Gambit: Accepted and Slav by: John L. I find that most players in my club mistake the French Defence as a passive, boring defence much like the Caro-Kann but with the added disadvantage of Black's light-squared bishop being hemmed in (which as Korchnoi so lovingly puts it,"his problem child") and remaining Instead, the Ruy Lopez (Anand, Kramnik), the Catalan (Kramnik), Petroff (Kramnik), the Slav/Semi-Slav/Queen's Gambit Declined (Anand, Leko, Kramnik, Topalov) are the rage these days. Rather, he points out a general principle in the Queen's Gambit: Black delays capturing the offered pawn until it gains a tempo. Reply #187 - 07/12/11 at 13:46:40. Seizing control If one wants to see a better handlings of the Queen's Gambit from the Black side, check out Schroer vs Hess from Week 2.