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The Queen's Gambit & Catalan for Black by Lasha Janjgava

The Queen's Gambit & Catalan for Black Lasha Janjgava ebook
ISBN: 1901983374, 9781901983371
Publisher: Gambit Publications
Format: pdf
Page: 98

I opened the game with the Fianchetto Variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined and black quickly gave me the opportunity to give him an isolated pawn, which I was happy to take. 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. 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. 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. 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. The Georgian GM Lasha Janjgava has produced a fantastic text on the QGD and Catalan for black. 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. 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. Hracek,Z (2628) - Elsness,F (2506). 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 found a key improvement for black in the notes to black's 18th move. Computers don't like his However, according to the Israeli Black wasn't lost yet. 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. Semi-Slav Anti-Moscow Gambit[D43]. 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.