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

It's an interesting line of the Marshall Defense to the Queen's Gambit (one of my favorite dubious openings): Gjon Feinstein — Dana Mackenzie. Tom opened up the centre and his superior development was converted into a decisive material advantage making use of a nice cross-pin. Queen's Gambit Accepted, Petroff, Pawn structure, open game. G3 … White goes for a Catalan-style development. We saw one of the first Queen's Gambit of the tournament, which looked pretty safe for black. White will either follow up with Bg5 or Bf4, or aim for a Catalan-like formation with g3, without gambiting a pawn. Black's problems will occur in the middlegame, which is outside the scope of this series. The Catalan is an attempt to turn the Reti into a pressure opening. 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. 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 ). 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. 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. After all they deal with topical openings and sometimes even bring old-fashioned openings back to life (i.e. Grunfeld, Catalan (some lines), Pawn structure, kingside fianchetto. 3, that the chief virtue of the All Purpose System for Black was that it could be played not only against the Queen's Gambit but also against any opening at all except 1. 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. E4, the Stonewall Attack, or the Colle System. On board 4, Frank Hoffmeister outplayed Johann VandenBusssche (1887) with White in a Catalan set-up. Boris Gelfand played a Catalan opening against Wang Hao. 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.