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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
Format: pdf
ISBN: 1901983374, 9781901983371
Page: 98

This Queen's Gambit turned tactical early as a volley of trades erupted on the board. In order to prevent this easy attacking plan, the ingenious 15.Re4 has been tried. On board 4, Frank Hoffmeister outplayed Johann VandenBusssche (1887) with White in a Catalan set-up. Larry Kaufman's The Chess Advantage in Black and White is being updated and re-released by New In Chess! 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. Computers don't like his However, according to the Israeli Black wasn't lost yet. Black then continues 15Bg4 and after 16.Qd3 he has 16Rae8 17.Nd2 and now 17f5 or 17Re6, to name just a few of the more characteristic ideas. 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. An unbalanced position occurred and black had an extra pawn, but his king was stuck in the center and queen being harassed after 14. Tom opened up the centre and his superior development was converted into a decisive material advantage making use of a nice cross-pin. This is slightly counter-intuitive to me, but perhaps I have been conditioned too much by old-fashioned opening manuals who treated the Queen's Gambit and the Catalan as entirely different complexes. 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. Grandmaster Sadler explains the key ideas behind the Queen's Gambit Declined, one of Black's most dependable responses to the queen's pawn. A few of Nf3 heading towards a Catalan setup, hell I even toyed with the idea of playing the Queen's Gambit.