Response to E6 D5 structures against my English.

Thank you for your suggestion. Book I think will be difficult to fetch. But I think , I came across detailed articles and a lot of videos on youtube on carlsbad structure. Will definetely work on it , and make things work. Thanks for your valuable time .. 

Is scribd legal?  Every time I hear about it, it just sounds like pirating.  Publishing free copies of book illegally.  Is that not what this is?

If you were Stephen King, and you have been making $2 for every copy sold of Pet Sematary (the publisher getting the rest), would it not be wrong for scribd to simply publish the book and let everybody read it for free?

Sounds very fishy.  Also makes you wonder if scribd has implanted worms or viruses - common in free stuff, online gambling, and porn.

Well, sir it's been just 1.5 years, since I started seriously playing chess, and before that, I didn't knew much about the game. 

Reason, I want to play english, is that, most games I ever played, are english. And for some reason, I didn't get much success with D4 or E4. 

Since I fell in love with game, and after playing a couple of tournaments, I'm thinking of giving game a serious shot, and having serious growth in game, right now. 

That's why, I'm trying to get my repitore problems fixed, and have read Nimzovich, Silman books, Lars Schandroff Caro kann, Kosten English, Positional Decision by Gelfand, DVD on english by Simon Williams. 

Currently working on Dynamic decision making Gelfand, Endgame Strategy. 

Ahead on my study list, Giants of Chess Strategy, Alekhines best games. Repitore Against D4 Vienna by Jan Gustaffson. 

I don't have, tournament experience as most of you guys, do, as I've played just 4-5 tournaments uptil now, so I've got to mostly figure things out by studying chess alone, and some training games on sunday. 

Add : And sir your reference of Carlsbad structure seemed to have solved all my problems, I think. Position looks to me very good to push for a win , and not too wierd to study a different opening. Thank you very much

I'll still keep bugging you guys, as headaches I'm having from quite some time, your support solved most of em all. 😁😁😁. But there will be more, as I patch up 150-200 more points in another month making it to 2000. More queries coming soon. Thank you for your support. 

You have the choice between a variation of the Reti (that is sometimes considered to be a variation of the English: in this case the Agincourt) as ThrillerFan explained, and the QGD.

In this case I personally choose an agressive line of the exchange variation of the QGD, with moves like Bg5, e3, Bd3, Nge2, Qc2, and I castle Queenside (see Kasparov-Campora, Salonica, 1988).

It also allows me to avoid boring lines and many theoretical defenses and variations (such as the Tarrasch and the Nxd5 Tarrasch, the Tartacover or the Lasker variations ...) . 

Sure . Thank you for your valuable time. I will definitely check it out and give it a try.

You don't avoid the Tarrasch, or the Semi-Tarrasch by employing the exchange variation.

Actually, after 2.c4 e6, there is no way to avoid the Tarrasch, excluding a couple of VERY stupid options..

"You don't avoid the Tarrasch, or the Semi-Tarrasch by employing the exchange variation" Maybe not the Tarrasch. But I do avoid the Semi-Tarrasch, knowing that I don't play Nf3. 

If you play 1.c4 e6 2Nc3 d5 3pxp pxp 4d4 black hasn't played Nf6 and has easy path to equality with 4...c6 then usually Bd6, Ne7, Bf5. 

If 3d4 Nf6 4pxp then 4...Nxp is possible for black with semi-tarrasch like play. 5e4 NxN 6pxN c5 white has ideas like Rb1 to avoid exchanges with pxp,pxp Bb4ch, but it still isn't easy to prove any advantage.

How come you avoid a Semi-Tarrasch after, say, 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.cxd5 Nxd5?

Sure, you can avoid this by 4.Bg5, but after 4...Be7 you can only play a lameass exchange variation, as Black can always take on d5 with the knight.

As gelfand pointed out somewhere in his books,

white gets to play E4, and after Nxc3 bxc3. White gets a Grunfeld type center, and space. And black doesn't have a Bg4, or even G6 Bg7. So Nxd5 I believe won't be a pleasent choice. Though it's not too big of advantage. 

Though I don't know theory of tarrash or semi tarrash, but I'm sure, above lines, gives a positional plus to white, and onus is on black to prove equality with counter attacking White's center. Black is no way worse, but I would prefer white in such positions, there are a lot of ways, things can go wrong for black. 

I like lines after 3. D4. There isn't rush to play Cxd5, as illustrated above. Allowing Nf6 and CxD5 Exd5 Bg5 Be7 E3

I like this Carlsbad structure as told by IM Pfren, and Qc2 Bd3 Nge2 Rb1 B4. 

1. Minority attack or

2. Qc2 Neg3 E4 F4. 

Both looks brutal to me. With proper planning, they can be employed, to take down, a unsuspecting opponent. Atleast for me. 

Mainly due to Vladimir Kramnik, the Semi-Tarrasch had recenty a huge popularity boost.

"but I'm sure, above lines, gives a positional plus to white" - well, now feel free to stop being so sure. In general, Kramnik's setup in to put the bishop at b7, and the b8 knight at f6 (formerly ...Nc6 was almost automatic reaction), when it is very difficult for white to do something with his broad center.

Without an early Nf3, white has tried to prevent Bb4+ and the swap of dark-squared bishops with strange looking moves as (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.cxd5 Nxd5!? 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 c5) 7.a3!? and 7.Rb1!?, but it seems that Black has found the right recipe for those moves as well.

The second is wrong.  You do not play Nge2 in order to play Ng3, e4, and f4.

The second option, known as the central attack, the Knight stays on e2 for a while and it is f3 followed by e4.  From there, you have 4 possibilities.

A) Black takes and White recaptures with a piece.  That gives White the IQP position.

B) Black takes and White recaptures with the f-pawn.  This gives White hanging pawns.

C) Black does not take and White advances.  This leads to the advanced center.

D) Black does not take and White captures on d5.  This leads back to scenario A if Black takes with a piece, and if he takes with the c-pawn, you have mutually blocked IQPs.

Tension can remain by both players for a period of time, but eventually, one of those 4 scenarios will happen 99 percent of the time.

I'm still working on it. Didn't explain in details. Just wanted to give glimpse of direction, where I think, white shall have pleasent game. 

Like I said sir. Position is almost equal, and planting B8 knight on F6, and C8 Bishop on B7, and blockading D5 square, is surely best series of moves. General theme, remains, that if white doesn't manage to do, something till black achieves, ideal position for his pieces, center will simply be a target. And if white manage, to create initiative, before black can put pressure on D5 square, black will be unhappy. Of course cutting edge theory has got it all figured out,with very concrete analysis . I'll definitely look into these lines, to strengthen my repitore. Thanks, for your valuable effort, and such precious advices. 

According to my chess book wrote by an IM, there are in fact two options in the option 2! Yes, there's the "central attack" with f2-f3 and e3-e4, but also a very sharp line, in which white attacks... the black king.

Here's a game from Kasparov:

While theoretically Black is OK in these positions, there is a strong current trend to wait for white to castle, and then castling at the same side of the board as Black.

Of course this does not stop white from his usual ideas- e.g. I have shown to many of my intermediate students a game where Botvinnik (as white) castled long, Black followed suit, and white STILL went for a minority attack with Kc1-b1-a1, Rb1 and b2-b4!

Originality points aside, Black had a rather easy game, but he eventually managed to mess it up with a couple of pointless moves, and lose the game.

As far as I'm concerned, the best book on the Exchange variation is an old Russian one (I have it in German, and I'm rather sure that it was never printed in English). It is authored by GM Kharitonov, with a young GM Dreev collaborating.

Sorry for the bad pic, but the book is very heavily used!

I didn't ask, for your opinions boy, comment on the matter, of topic, or keep your a** out of this post. 

Nobody asked you how, a IM played with 50% accuracy. Of course analyzing with engine, you can make Carlsen look like a beginner, but I don't see where you showed your own ideas. Why do you think the moves you think are inaccuracy, are actually inaccurate. How do they not able to solve the problem. Again. He's a IM, and he won games against strong players to get that title. You ain't s**t.

Congratulations. You have discovered an unrated game I had played with a student of mine for training purposes some time ago. Kostaskk is a student and a friend- I will very likely visit him in Cyprus this October if the Int. Open in Larnaca will take place.

Unfortunately, my most recent games against my students are played on Li***ss, so you have missed them, and lost some very constructive remarks.

While you really don't have to be a moron to analyse such games seriously, and on top of that use the chess dot com siilicon patzer for analysis, it certainly helps a lot. So, your success is guranteed, methinks.