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

The classic main line A quieter alternative to 5 Qb3 and 5 g3 is the transposition to the Exchange Variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined with 5 cxd5 exd5. 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. I still remember how Boris Avrukh managed to lift the Catalan's reputation with his books and I'm sure Victor Mikhalevski will do the same with the Spanish Opening! A common opening sequence is 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 ECO codes E01-E09 are for the Catalan. Aveskulov does not limit himself to the Benko- and Blumenfeld Gambit itself but also represents answers to rare moves such as Queen's pawn openings (i.e. Colle, London, Veresov, Torre, Zuckertort etc.), Anti-Ben-Oni approaches (4.Nc3 ) as same as .. By Lasha Janjgava, Graham Burgess Editorial Reviews About the Author Lasha Janjgava is a grandmaster from Georgia, and President of the Tbilisi Chess Federation. Grunfeld, Catalan (some lines), Pawn structure, kingside fianchetto. 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. G3 … White goes for a Catalan-style development. White will either follow up with Bg5 or Bf4, or aim for a Catalan-like formation with g3, without gambiting a pawn. The move 5 Qb3 hopes to improve on 5 e3 by defending against Black winning a pawn by 5…dxc4 followed by 6…b5, while at the same time not blocking in his queen's bishop. Gjon has played this before against me and I think that some other It looks a little loose for Black, but computer analysis gives only a small edge to White after 8. It's an interesting line of the Marshall Defense to the Queen's Gambit (one of my favorite dubious openings): Gjon Feinstein — Dana Mackenzie. Queen's Gambit Accepted, Petroff, Pawn structure, open game.