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

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

Tom opened up the centre and his superior development was converted into a decisive material advantage making use of a nice cross-pin. The Minority Attack White pushes b2-b4-b5, threatening bxc6. On board 4, Frank Hoffmeister outplayed Johann VandenBusssche (1887) with White in a Catalan set-up. A common opening sequence is 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2, though the opening can arise from a If black does not know the theory in details, it is easy for white to get advantage. 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. If Black permits this capture by responding bxc6, he leaves the c6 pawn backward and vulnerable on the half open c-file. 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. Queen's Gambit Accepted, Petroff, Pawn structure, open game. Grunfeld, Catalan (some lines), Pawn structure, kingside fianchetto. Queen's Gambit Declined: Mighty Minority Attack.