thechessplaya5 wrote:
I want to know what are the essential ideas and goals of White in the opening Queen's Gambit Declined. I read somewhere that it is to advance the e pawn to the 4th rank. Is it true? What are the other ideas from which I can select candidate moves?
It is very helpful to first consider some of the answers given the previous 100 times this question was asked:
http://www.chess.com/article/search?keyword=queens+gambit&cat_id=
http://www.chess.com/forum/search?keyword=queen%27s+gambit+declined
I want to know what are the essential ideas and goals of White in the opening Queen's Gambit Declined. I read somewhere that it is to advance the e pawn to the 4th rank. Is it true? What are the other ideas from which I can select candidate moves?