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The Queen's Gambit & Catalan for Black Lasha Janjgava
Publisher: Gambit Publications

Chernev finds no flaw in opening the d-file while White's rook eyes Black's queen along it. Khalifman vs Sveshnikov – Catalan Opening – Elista, 1996. Rather, he points out a general principle in the Queen's Gambit: Black delays capturing the offered pawn until it gains a tempo. After all they deal with topical openings and sometimes even bring old-fashioned openings back to life (i.e. 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. We saw one of the first Queen's Gambit of the tournament, which looked pretty safe for black. 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. 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. 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 ECO codes E01-E09 are for the Catalan. 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. A sharp Queen's Gambit Declined, transposing into a Catalan, between Alexander Khalifman and Evgeni Sveshnikov, played in Elista in 1996. Boris Gelfand played a Catalan opening against Wang Hao.