https://www.amazon.com/Queens-Gambit-Declined-Matthew-Sadler/dp/1857442563
Published almost 17 years ago. Still the best learning tool for the Queen's gambit declined by a long shot, as well as one of the 3-4 best openings' books ever written.
The author is honest enough to credit the late Mark Dvoretsky with the minority attack part of the book (which is absolutely top notch).
https://www.amazon.com/Queens-Gambit-Declined-Matthew-Sadler/dp/1857442563
Published almost 17 years ago. Still the best learning tool for the Queen's gambit declined by a long shot, as well as one of the 3-4 best openings' books ever written.
The author is honest enough to credit the late Mark Dvoretsky with the minority attack part of the book (which is absolutely top notch).
Thank you very much for the recommendation. The Queen's gambit declined is the only opening I play with both colours. And the Carlsbad the only variation. I'm very interested in learning how to deal with the minority attack as black.
https://www.amazon.com/Queens-Gambit-Declined-Matthew-Sadler/dp/1857442563
Published almost 17 years ago. Still the best learning tool for the Queen's gambit declined by a long shot, as well as one of the 3-4 best openings' books ever written.
The author is honest enough to credit the late Mark Dvoretsky with the minority attack part of the book (which is absolutely top notch).
Thank you very much for the recommendation. The Queen's gambit declined is the only opening I play with both colours. And the Carlsbad the only variation. I'm very interested in learning how to deal with the minority attack as black.
Rc8-c5
¿Cómo que torre a c5? When?
Mmm, do you mean the c) approach offered here?: http://exeterchessclub.org.uk/content/whos-afraid-big-bad-minority-attack
Too long for my attention span, I just meant that you play Rc8 and whenever the play b5 push c5! Just like Carlsen against Nakamura in the Blitz battle.
I was playing board 7 for Lloyds Bank. My opponent resigned and left.
On the bright side I got to play skittles games with Raymond Keene for an hour and lost every one to him.
Fell for the elephant trap. Nice!
Here's a nice game in that line by Alekhine: >>
Don't think 13 Qb1 deserves an exclamation mark. I think black's reply is 13 ... e5 and black equalises. Alekhine's opponent made Qb1 look good. I would take twice on e5, followed by playing 15 f4.
I wondered about that too. The "new" move must have been first played nearly hundred years ago now, and Alekhine played many new moves against the "Capablanca freeing manovere" in his time.
Currently at elite level don't think black is having much trouble in the exchange variation, because of a line with h6, and nh5? Also players like Anand, Kramnik are playing a lot a unnamed line in QueensGambit declined with early nb-d7. It is interesting what opening ideas filter down from top level, and what doesn't. These lines might appear in a new quality chess book in the future.
Sorry I meant that black replies 13 ... e4 but you knew what I meant.
In general we have to be very careful about so-called improvements by Alekhine, because his very presence at the board was said to unnerve people and he went in for things that would be forbidden these days, like hovering and stalking up and down. I always thought he wasn't quite as good as his reputation holds him to have been.
Regarding the Exchange QGD, I was going to suggest that a beginner as white definitely shouldn't play it because it's too difficult and white's advantage is dubious. The opposite castling and pawn storm variation doesn't win by force and white can easily overstep and lose, whereas the minority attack only gives white an advantage if black blunders and meanwhile, black gets to play aggressively. I once won a pawn storm variation because whereas the k-side attack was repulsed by black, I also had a positional advantage on the q-side. That was when I was a decent player.
Play something aggressive!
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6
When the C & D pawn lock horns! Be the first one to take the Bull by the horns! Exchange first with 3.cxd5.
It will confuse them!
No, it's illogical for white to lessen the central tension.
No, it's illogical for white to lessen the central tension.
I think the idea is to play an Exchange variation without giving Black time to play Nf6 and have the option of taking on d5 with the knight, which supposedly is not good, but does not give you either the minority attack or f3-e4 buildup players often go for when playing the QGD Exchange.
Black draws
wow
Wasn't that written about a quarter of a century ago?>>>
Yes but the basic principles remain the same and any improvements and new lines since that time don't affect things for a beginner. I found Marovic's book to be one of the best three or four openings books I've ever read and still occasionally refer to it. There are one or two very slight problems with the indexing, making it difficult sometimes to find one or two obscure sub-variations, but that's about the extent of my objections. In principle it discusses strategy resulting from basic variations white can play, by reference to annotated master games. It's written mainly from white's p.o.v. but it still provides enough info for players of the black side to decide which QGD variation they're going to use. It does rather skip over variations that were out of fashion in the 1990s though, like for instance, some variations of Lasker's Defence or the Old Tartakower, where back plays Nbd7 before b6, which seem to be slightly more played now. And it's a bit hazy regarding the more modern lines of the Tartakower where white delays cd by making waiting moves, but there are still master games to refer to. It covers Capablanca's or the Orthodox Defence reasonably well, the Cambridge Springs very well and also that variation with an early Bb4, which is very sharp, and so on. Occasionally I find that a hybrid crops up that I can't directly refer to in that book but not often and usually as a result of creative play by an opponent. Mainly as a result of that book I've become reasonably strong against the Slav and look forward to playing against it.