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

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. Robson invited to the Queens Gambit Declined, but Rasmussen went for the Catalan instead. Larry Kaufman's The Chess Advantage in Black and White is being updated and re-released by New In Chess! A few of Nf3 heading towards a Catalan setup, hell I even toyed with the idea of playing the Queen's Gambit. 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. They played the same line with But whites rook was locked in at a1, and black was active, so things was far from clear - black had strong compensation and it was hard to see how white could get piece play. He got a pleasant advantage out of the opening against Teimour Radjabov, who played what could be dubbed the “Accelerated Lasker Variation” of the Queen's Gambit Declined. The Queen's Gambit & Catalan for BlackEbook Free DownloadThe Queen's Gambit & Catalan for Black. The IM played active in the Tarrasch Defence of the Queens Gambit and with 20h4 he started action at the K-side. 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. Since that time I was keeping it and nobody played it. From move 30 to 39 black with the black pieces. 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. White will either follow up with Bg5 or Bf4, or aim for a Catalan-like formation with g3, without gambiting a pawn. 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. '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'. 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. In order to prevent this easy attacking plan, the ingenious 15.Re4 has been tried.