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Okay so if anyone saw Kramnik during the canidates tournament he loves playing g3 as white and id really like to look into this. I dont want to play a KIA because i like the idea of having the pawns on d4 and c4. So how fufilling is this g3 idea?
The main openings against 1.d4 are
Queens gambit declined
Slav
Queens gambit accepeted (ignoring this because g3 would be ridicoulous)
Grunfeld
Kings Indian
Nimzo/Bogo/Queens indian
okay so against the Queens gambit declined its easy to play the catalan. Its also easy to play against the grunfeld and kid for example:
the thing is. against a slav its very awkward. not many games are recorded of playing this catalan set up agains thte slav because c6 just blunts the bishop. But here is a good example of a common move order that it comes from
so im just trying to see if the catalan could be a universal set up?