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

A50 Queen's Pawn Game, Black Knights' Tango; A51 Budapest Gambit declined; A52 Budapest Gambit; A53 Old Indian Defence (Chigorin Indian Defence); A54 Old Indian, Ukrainian Variation; A55 Old Indian, Main line; A56 Benoni Defence .. After all they deal with topical openings and sometimes even bring old-fashioned openings back to life (i.e. D4 … The Catalan still looks OK, but now there is a hint of a Queens' Gambit. Tom opened up the centre and his superior development was converted into a decisive material advantage making use of a nice cross-pin. 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. 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. But I have a big problem with two lines (I suppose because I just love these lines as white, and don't get excited about them as black just yet) Those are the Queen's Gambit declined exchange variation (my usual repertoire choice as it rules out the Cambridge Springs variation) I just dont LOVE black here. On board 4, Frank Hoffmeister outplayed Johann VandenBusssche (1887) with White in a Catalan set-up. In this volume, GM Marian Petrov, Black must certainly be well prepared, but the workload is less than for most aggressive defences – this book supplies all Black needs to know.” Let me see if the words put on the But hey… after all you consider playing the Benoni, not the Queen's Gambit Declined. 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. 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. That is a monster of an opening and you have to be well prepared against it, and it is pretty different from the Queen's gambit declined. Open, Alekhine Variation; E04 Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3; E05 Catalan, Open, Classical line; E06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3; E07 Catalan, Closed, 6Nbd7; E08 Catalan, Closed, 7.Qc2; E09 Catalan, Closed, Main line; E10 Queen's Pawn Game 3. 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 ).