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

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 common opening sequence is 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 ECO codes E01-E09 are for the Catalan. Now black played 18Bb7 but 18..Nb8 manages to hold. I found a key improvement for black in the notes to black's 18th move. C5, it will look horrible to those new to the Catalan, but plans with Ba5 (once Black's queen's knight has committed to d7) followed by (a3 and) b4 are standard. 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? 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. Black doesn't have to allow a transposition to a Queen's Gambit Catalan. Hracek,Z (2628) - Elsness,F (2506). He present a repertoire for Black based on the initial moves 1 d4 d5 2 c4 e6 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 Bg5 Nbd7 The GM Lars Schandorff: Five variations of the QGD; Open and Closed Catalan IM Sam Collins: QGD Semi-Tarrasch and four variations of the Slav Defence. 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. Opening Cox also demonstrates how to play against White's other tries, including the Exchange Variation, Catalan and Bf4 lines. 'I think the perception of the Queen's Gambit Declined as a stodgy response for Black is quite unfounded and I think the Queen's Gambit Declined for Black is about to experience a revival'. This Queen's Gambit turned tactical early as a volley of trades erupted on the board. Reply #187 - 07/12/11 at 13:46:40. An unbalanced position occurred and black had an extra pawn, but his king was stuck in the center and queen being harassed after 14. This book provides a repertoire for Black with the ever-popular Queen's Gambit Declined. Semi-Slav Anti-Moscow Gambit[D43].