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

4…Be7 The Queen's Gambit Declined. If he thinks a Kramnik could then play some form of Queen's gambit, or the Catalan. In it, experienced tournament players and experts in each specific opening will teach you what you absolutely have to know about the Slav, the Catalan, the Classical Queen's Gambit, the Chigorin Defence, etc. An ancient, solid and interesting opening. We saw one of the first Queen's Gambit of the tournament, which looked pretty safe for black. 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. The minimum openings I'd recommend for black would be stuff like the Benko Gambit, Scandinavian Defenses (although I think the Scandinavian is a really lame opening) and so forth, while with white you can still get away with the c3 Sicilian, and 3.Nc3, 3. 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 .. Against 1.e4 Topalov defends with the Najdorf if he wants to play for a win with Black, sometimes he varies with the Sveshnikov. 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. 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. I thought that Shakhriyar was choosing between bringing the bishop out to f4 or g5. Boris Gelfand played a Catalan opening against Wang Hao. An attempt to force the exchange on c3, which will reduce black's presence in the centre, and moreover… if white takes with the b2 pawn then the d4 point will be significantly strengthened. D4 you might want to go for the six-section option and get 1.