The Queen’s Gambit & Catalan for Black . Lasha Janjgava

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The Queen’s Gambit & Catalan for Black Lasha Janjgava
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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. D4 leaves black without any advantage. Computers don’t like his However, according to the Israeli Black wasn’t lost yet. Grandmaster Sadler explains the key ideas behind the Queen’s Gambit Declined, one of Black’s most dependable responses to the queen’s pawn. 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. King’s gambit, Latvian gambit, Philidor’s defense, Petrov’s defense, Ponziani Opening, Scotch Opening, Scotch gambit, Four knights game, Giuoco Piano, Evans gambit, Ruy Lopez, Colle system, Queen’s Gambit, Catalan Opening, *ladame (2010-08-21 09:16:55) 2 years ago 1. 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. 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. 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. A common opening sequence is 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 ECO codes E01-E09 are for the Catalan. *xakafi (2010-09-25 04:02:29) 2 years ago why did you like it????