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

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

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. Now, interested in the Queen's Gambit Declined as Black, I find the opening worth studying. 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 didn't think the endgame presented . A few of Nf3 heading towards a Catalan setup, hell I even toyed with the idea of playing the Queen's Gambit. Boris Gelfand played a Catalan opening against Wang Hao. Tom opened up the centre and his superior development was converted into a decisive material advantage making use of a nice cross-pin. This Queen's Gambit turned tactical early as a volley of trades erupted on the board. 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. Tom Wiley on board 2 faced the Queen's gambit accepted from Stefan Bruynooghe (2072) with a somewhat unusual development of Black's bishop to d6. Larry Kaufman's The Chess Advantage in Black and White is being updated and re-released by New In Chess! The Georgian GM Lasha Janjgava has produced a fantastic text on the QGD and Catalan for black. He tried 15.Ng3 and after 15…Qe6, traded on e6 as retreating would allow 16…d5 with equality. €�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. We saw one of the first Queen's Gambit of the tournament, which looked pretty safe for black. An unbalanced position occurred and black had an extra pawn, but his king was stuck in the center and queen being harassed after 14. 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. In recent years, Krush has trotted out a variety of defenses to Zatonskih's 1. D4, including a Queen's Gambit Accepted, Catalan, Pirc, Benoni, and another King's Indian in 2008. On board 4, Frank Hoffmeister outplayed Johann VandenBusssche (1887) with White in a Catalan set-up.