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

We saw one of the first Queen's Gambit of the tournament, which looked pretty safe for black. 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. Larry Kaufman's The Chess Advantage in Black and White is being updated and re-released by New In Chess! He tried 15.Ng3 and after 15…Qe6, traded on e6 as retreating would allow 16…d5 with equality. 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. 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? Aronian annexes a pawn in a Cambridge Springs Queen's Gambit, but Navara has compensation in his better development. 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. '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'. Anand has an interesting development idea on the Black side of Ponomariov's Catalan. A sharp Queen's Gambit Declined, transposing into a Catalan, between Alexander Khalifman and Evgeni Sveshnikov, played in Elista in 1996. Computers don't like his However, according to the Israeli Black wasn't lost yet. 7) King's Indian 8) Nimzo-Indian/Queen's Indian/Catalan 9) Queen's Gambit Declined 10) Queen's Gambit Accepted. 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. Khalifman vs Sveshnikov – Catalan Opening – Elista, 1996. 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. 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. 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. I didn't think the endgame presented . Boris Gelfand played a Catalan opening against Wang Hao. A few of Nf3 heading towards a Catalan setup, hell I even toyed with the idea of playing the Queen's Gambit.