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

The Queen's Gambit & Catalan for Black


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The Queen's Gambit & Catalan for Black Lasha Janjgava
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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. Since that time I was In a Queen's Gambit Declined that turned into some sort of Stonewall position, around move 25 Aronian missed a tactic and lost an important pawn. Since that time I was keeping it and nobody played it. Computers don't like his However, according to the Israeli Black wasn't lost yet. 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. 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. 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. 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. 7) King's Indian 8) Nimzo-Indian/Queen's Indian/Catalan 9) Queen's Gambit Declined 10) Queen's Gambit Accepted. He got a pleasant advantage out of the opening against Teimour Radjabov, who played what could be dubbed the “Accelerated Lasker Variation” of the Queen's Gambit Declined. Khalifman vs Sveshnikov – Catalan Opening – Elista, 1996. In this volume, GM Marian Petrov, Black must certainly be well prepared, but the workload is less than for most aggressive defences – this book supplies all Black needs to know.” Let me see if the words put on the But hey… after all you consider playing the Benoni, not the Queen's Gambit Declined. 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. Kramnik got a nice advantage in a Catalan: “Actually it was my preparation for Kazan; I was about to play it against Radjabov in 2011 but finally for some reason I decided to play something else. 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? A sharp Queen's Gambit Declined, transposing into a Catalan, between Alexander Khalifman and Evgeni Sveshnikov, played in Elista in 1996. After all they deal with topical openings and sometimes even bring old-fashioned openings back to life (i.e.