The Queen

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

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

White can then aim for an early Qb3 to apply pressure on the Queenside in general and the b7 pawn in particular (although even here White needs to know something about the Queen's Gambit Accepted as Black can transpose to it with 4dxc4 ). 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. 4 Nc-Three: Gambit in the Queen's Gambit: Accepted and Slav by: John L. Nf3 Nf6 White can still get his English or Catalan, but now we see the possibility that Black is playing for a Queen's Indian. In order to prevent this easy attacking plan, the ingenious 15.Re4 has been tried. The Colle is mainly effective against 1 d4 Nf6 2 Nf3 e6 and 1 d4 It can be as effective as the famous Catalan Bishop, only nudged along to the dark squares. Nxf5 would follow if he took Black's Queen by playing 35. Sure, Black can deviate, for example with 3a6, forcing you into some Queen's Gambit Accepted lines, but these are more manageable than the whole of QGA theory after 3. After this FM Elliot Liu (2nd Place, 2 Points): In a quiet opening that looked like it was heading for a Catalan-type of position, things suddenly became more double-edged once the Pawn structure changed and FM Zimmer played the creative Pawn sacrifice 13. D4 … The Catalan still looks OK, but now there is a hint of a Queens' Gambit. Seizing control If one wants to see a better handlings of the Queen's Gambit from the Black side, check out Schroer vs Hess from Week 2. 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.