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

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

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. A few of Nf3 heading towards a Catalan setup, hell I even toyed with the idea of playing the Queen's Gambit. An attempt to force the exchange on c3, which will reduce black's presence in the centre, and moreover… if white takes with the b2 pawn then the d4 point will be significantly strengthened. An ancient, solid and interesting opening. In order to prevent this easy attacking plan, the ingenious 15.Re4 has been tried. Nxf5 would follow if he took Black's Queen by playing 35. I thought that Shakhriyar was choosing between bringing the bishop out to f4 or g5. Black then continues 15Bg4 and after 16.Qd3 he has 16Rae8 17.Nd2 and now 17f5 or 17Re6, to name just a few of the more characteristic ideas. 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 ). That is a monster of an opening and you have to be well prepared against it, and it is pretty different from the Queen's gambit declined. 4 Nc-Three: Gambit in the Queen's Gambit: Accepted and Slav by: John L. 4…Be7 The Queen's Gambit Declined. 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. But I have a big problem with two lines (I suppose because I just love these lines as white, and don't get excited about them as black just yet) Those are the Queen's Gambit declined exchange variation (my usual repertoire choice as it rules out the Cambridge Springs variation) I just dont LOVE black here. This is slightly counter-intuitive to me, but perhaps I have been conditioned too much by old-fashioned opening manuals who treated the Queen's Gambit and the Catalan as entirely different complexes. Ebook Download | The Queen's Gambit & Catalan for Black | This is a very good GAMBIT chess book, that presents a repertoire for Black for QGD and the Catalan. Larry Kaufman's The Chess Advantage in Black and White is being updated and re-released by New In Chess! 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.