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

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. 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. Computers don't like his However, according to the Israeli Black wasn't lost yet. Reply #187 - 07/12/11 at 13:46:40. If Black permits this capture by responding bxc6, he leaves the c6 pawn backward and vulnerable on the half open c-file. 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? The Minority Attack White pushes b2-b4-b5, threatening bxc6. Queen's Gambit Declined: Mighty Minority Attack. The Queen's Gambit & Catalan for BlackEbook Free DownloadThe Queen's Gambit & 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. Black doesn't have to allow a transposition to a Queen's Gambit Catalan.