Understanding the Queens gambit accepted Book review - Chess Forums

triggerlips

Jan 20, 2017

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A wonderful book packed full of great new ideas that really work in practice.

Since buying this book a week ago it ihas become clear that most players of the white pieces around 2000 level have no clue how to play against these lines, probably because most will have not seen them before.

The Queens gambit accepted is fairly out of fashion so players of white rarely get to play it, so there little chance they will know the ideas in this book, even if they do they are still sound. And as black you will get to play them in most of your d4 games.

The good news for lazy players is this is easy to learn, classical chapters are included but if you use the authors recommended lines then you do not need to learn them

1.d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e4 Nc6 ! with play very similar to Chigorins defence

1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e3 e5 ! with good active play

1. d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 (main line) 4... Bg4

Bg4 sidesteps all the main classical lines and again features Nc6 it goes 5.Bxc4 e6 6.Bxc4 Nc6 still very unknown to most players of white. For example the Watson white repetoire book gives just one little sidenote for it

It also features a good gambit against the move given by Burgess in his repetoire book for white against 4.Qa4 it is 4...Nc6 5.Qxc4 e5! if white does not know what he is doing he may well struggle to find the best moves otb

All this stuff can be learned in a day or Two and im finding that if white just drifts with aimless play like they will when they dont know what to do then it is easy for black to build a kingside attack from many of these positions.

They also have alterntaive chapters, for example there is one on 1.d4 d5 2.c4 cxd 3.Nf6 a6 which is also fairly avante guard.

The book also has a few lines on how to deal with non c4 alternatives such as the london system and the colle. All up I can really recommend this title, it has the right mix of theory and chatter and the amount of learning involved is quite small. It is different enough to lead your opponents astray and it would be possible to quickly become quite proficient at it as blacks plans are fairly easy to understand

Here is a pdf of a few pages

http://www.chess-stars.com/resources/QGA.pdf

VLaurenT

Jan 20, 2017

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Thank you for the honest review.

penandpaper0089

Jan 20, 2017

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There's a snip here: http://www.chess-stars.com/resources/QGA.pdf

It includes the table of contents and index which is nice.

Does he give an answer to the early move 3.Nc3? I face this a lot and I usually see 3...a6 4.e3!? b5 5.a4 (5.Qf3 Ra7) and Black can't really keep the pawn.

triggerlips

Jan 20, 2017

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penandpaper0089 wrote:

Does he give an answer to the early move 3.Nc3? I face this a lot and I usually see 3...a6 4.e3!? b5 5.a4 (5.Qf3 Ra7) and Black can't really keep the pawn.

Funny you should mention 3.Nc3 I am finding I face this a lot yet it virtually unknown at the top, think it must be recommended somewhere.

Nc3 is given a ?! They say it deprives white of any opening advantage

3.Nc3 a6 !? 4.e3 Nf6 5.Bxc4 b5 6.Be2 Nbd7 is the line they give . It is btter to develop rather than have ideas of hanging on to the extra pawn. But apparently most white players reply 4.a4 in response to 3...a6 when black can play Nc6 or e5 all aimed at quick development.

I normally play 3...Nf6 in response to 3.Nc3 which tends to transpose to other chapters

After 3...Nf6 white can play 4.e4 when 4...e5 is equal

The other option for black is to go 3.Nc3 Nf6 4 Nf3 Nc6 which is a switch to the Chigorin defence or black can play 4...a6 again

ilikewindmills

Jan 24, 2017

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Does it teach play as white as well?

nikoBelicAK

Jan 24, 2017

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#6