The Queen

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

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

I would like to present you a complete repertoire for black against 1.d4 based on the Queen's Gambit Declined (QGD) and to share my thoughts and ideas with you! In recent years, Krush has trotted out a variety of defenses to Zatonskih's 1. Reply #187 - 07/12/11 at 13:46:40. A common opening sequence is 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 ECO codes E01-E09 are for the Catalan. D4, including a Queen's Gambit Accepted, Catalan, Pirc, Benoni, and another King's Indian in 2008. Boris Gelfand played a Catalan opening against Wang Hao. Black can also respond to 15.Ne3 with 15…Ne7, clearing the way for …Qb5 as well and covering the soft d5- and f5-squares. I opened the game with the Fianchetto Variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined and black quickly gave me the opportunity to give him an isolated pawn, which I was happy to take. All theoretical explainations are also available on youtube! In an open Catalan, Black was trying to get in c7-c5 and with the new move 15.Nb3 Giri prevented this. We saw one of the first Queen's Gambit of the tournament, which looked pretty safe for black. €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. 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? 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. I didn't think the endgame presented . He said the main reason was that he had prepared mostly for the Queen's Gambit Declined (he plays the Catalan) and that he hadn't really spent much time on the Slav. He tried 15.Ng3 and after 15…Qe6, traded on e6 as retreating would allow 16…d5 with equality. Black doesn't have to allow a transposition to a Queen's Gambit Catalan. 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.