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

Black Chess Pieces and White plays d4. After all they deal with topical openings and sometimes even bring old-fashioned openings back to life (i.e. The move 5 Qb3 hopes to improve on 5 e3 by defending against Black winning a pawn by 5…dxc4 followed by 6…b5, while at the same time not blocking in his queen's bishop. 7) King's Indian 8) Nimzo-Indian/Queen's Indian/Catalan 9) Queen's Gambit Declined 10) Queen's Gambit Accepted. This book provides a repertoire for Black with the ever-popular Queen's Gambit Declined. If you have the black pieces and White plays not 1.e4 but 1.d4, then you can play the following chess openings as Black. 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. It is generally known that in the closed openings, such as the Queen's Gambit, Black's Main problem is the development of the Queen's Bishop. The classic main line A quieter alternative to 5 Qb3 and 5 g3 is the transposition to the Exchange Variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined with 5 cxd5 exd5. White will either follow up with Bg5 or Bf4, or aim for a Catalan-like formation with g3, without gambiting a pawn. 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? 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. Don't bother to learn the following chess Bogo-Indian Defense, The Catalan Opening was played at the. Now, interested in the Queen's Gambit Declined as Black, I find the opening worth studying. Reply #187 - 07/12/11 at 13:46:40. 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? Opening Cox also demonstrates how to play against White's other tries, including the Exchange Variation, Catalan and Bf4 lines. 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. Black doesn't have to allow a transposition to a Queen's Gambit Catalan. I recommend to you to study the above Opening Chess Moves of the Queens Gambit, except the Chigorin Defense, which is dubious, but can be applied as a surprise weapon. In order to prevent this easy attacking plan, the ingenious 15.Re4 has been tried. Catalan Opening Part 3 ( 8 --- Nd5).