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

Aveskulov does not limit himself to the Benko- and Blumenfeld Gambit itself but also represents answers to rare moves such as Queen's pawn openings (i.e. Rather, he points out a general principle in the Queen's Gambit: Black delays capturing the offered pawn until it gains a tempo. 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. I find that most players in my club mistake the French Defence as a passive, boring defence much like the Caro-Kann but with the added disadvantage of Black's light-squared bishop being hemmed in (which as Korchnoi so lovingly puts it,"his problem child") and remaining Instead, the Ruy Lopez (Anand, Kramnik), the Catalan (Kramnik), Petroff (Kramnik), the Slav/Semi-Slav/Queen's Gambit Declined (Anand, Leko, Kramnik, Topalov) are the rage these days. Nf3 Nf6 I'm ready to play a King's Indian . Computers don't like his However, according to the Israeli Black wasn't lost yet. 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. 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. Chernev finds no flaw in opening the d-file while White's rook eyes Black's queen along it. 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. Colle, London, Veresov, Torre, Zuckertort etc.), Anti-Ben-Oni approaches (4.Nc3 ) as same as .. As a response to the Reti anyway. Nf3 I personally play Nf6 and leave almost all options open (except the Dutch Defense) but again, d5-e6 is a universal prescription, if you're not afraid to play the Black side of the Queen's Gambit. I still remember how Boris Avrukh managed to lift the Catalan's reputation with his books and I'm sure Victor Mikhalevski will do the same with the Spanish Opening! This is my preferred method of meeting it, but one also has to know the Black side of the Catalan fairly well so as not to get caught up in positions you do not know.