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

B) 4.b3 - This is not White's most promising variation of the Colle Zukertort. Against 1.e4 Topalov defends with the Najdorf if he wants to play for a win with Black, sometimes he varies with the Sveshnikov. On board 4, Frank Hoffmeister outplayed Johann VandenBusssche (1887) with White in a Catalan set-up. A few of Nf3 heading towards a Catalan setup, hell I even toyed with the idea of playing the Queen's Gambit. 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. Catalan Opening Part 3 ( 8 --- Nd5). It is generally known that in the closed openings, such as the Queen's Gambit, Black's Main problem is the development of the Queen's Bishop. Black can a) 4.dxc5 - This is an attempt to play the Queen's Gambit accepted a tempo up but 4e6 probably gives theoretical equality. A common opening sequence is 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 ECO codes E01-E09 are for the Catalan. Although Chess Pub has Mind you, put the Catalan in with the Nimzos and then the Queen's Gambit folk will be the ones looking for a second section for the games that start 1. Nf6, so this is the classical starting position for the Queen's Pawn Openings. If he thinks a Kramnik could then play some form of Queen's gambit, or the Catalan. D4 d5; King's Indian; Daring Defences; Nimzo & Benoni; one section for when you play Black against king's side openings and Flank Openings too, just to round things out. 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 Queen's Gambit & Catalan for BlackEbook Free DownloadThe Queen's Gambit & Catalan for Black. After 4Nc6 5.Bb2 Bg4 Black is equal. Tom opened up the centre and his superior development was converted into a decisive material advantage making use of a nice cross-pin. Tom Wiley on board 2 faced the Queen's gambit accepted from Stefan Bruynooghe (2072) with a somewhat unusual development of Black's bishop to d6. - A poor relative of the Catalan. By deviating at this early point White makes sure that the game will be played on his homeground. D4 you might want to go for the six-section option and get 1. Larry Kaufman's The Chess Advantage in Black and White is being updated and re-released by New In Chess!