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Lifetime chess fan, about 2000 rating, club level chess player

Trained by GM Simon Williams and GM Alexei Kornev on 1.d4 (22 lessons/killer 1.d4 DVDs by Williams, and books by Kornev)

I have similar opening repertoire as

Lajos Portisch, Miguel Najdorf, Larry Evans, Arnold S. Denker, Chris Ward, Peter k Wells, Mesgen Amanov, Kenny Solomon, Alexander Kotov, Julio Granda, Pavel Eljanov, Vidit Gujrathi, Pavel Tregubov, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Alexander Moiseenko, Michal Krasenkow, Nikita Vitiugov, Konstantin Sakaev, Andrei Maksimenko, Boris Alterman, Dusan Rajkovic, Loek Van Wely, Boris Gelfand, amongst others, and also Vladimir Tukmakov, whose book I read "Modern chess preparation".

I make my chess moves based on previous preparation, experience, and intuition, not so much on calculation. So sometimes I make funny moves which are tactically unsound. I got started in chess as part of an sports program in my school in the 7th grade... all the way to 12th grade, that was long time ago, back in the 70s, at first I wanted a combat sport, but I could not get it. So, here we are!. If I had to pick who were my favorite chess players, I would say GM Efim Geller, and Dr Reuben Fine

I drew GM Larry Christiansen (simul), GM Tiger Hillarp, and IM Attila Turzo once,

IM Vojislav Milanovic three times,

beat IM, now GM Alex Lenderman, GM John Fedorowicz, IM Axel Smith, FM Igor Nikolayev, and FM Jovic Stanoje once.

I won individual games against other US National Masters, this include NM Ernest Colding,

and NM Tyrell Harriott of the marshall chess club, he was 1st place U2100 at The Manhattan Open in 2012. I am not bragging, I am just letting you know that if you are good at chess, and I gave you a tough game, you are not the only case. So don't go nuts!, or start pulling your hair out!

Books by Kornev:

A Practical White Repertoire with 1.D4 and 2.C4: 1: The Complete Queen's Gambit

A Practical White Repertoire with 1.d4 and 2.c4: 3: The Nimzo-Indian and Other Defences

A Practical White Repertoire with 1.D4 and 2.C4: 2: The King's Fianchetto Defences

A Practical Black Repertoire with d5, c6. Volume 1 The Slav and Other Defences

I also read:

Frank Marshall, United States Chess Champion: A Biography with 220 Games by Andrew Soltis

Najdorf: Life and Games by Alexander Beliavsky, Adrian Mikhalchischin, Tomasz Lissowski

Play 1.d4! by Richard Palliser

Strategic Chess Opening Repertoire for White, A Complete Plan of Attack With 1.d4 and 2.c4 by Watson

Playing 1.d4: The Queen's Gambit by Lars Schandorff (2009) and (2012)

Grandmaster Repertoire 1.d4 - The Queen's Gambit 1B and 2B by Boris Avrukh

Playing 1.d4: The indian defenses by Lars Schandorff

Playing 1.d4 d5, A classical repertoire by Nikolaos Ntirlis

1.d4 – Beat the Guerrillas! A Powerful Repertoire Against Annoying Black Sidelines By Valeri Bronznik

A Complete Guide to Queen's Gambit Play by Alexander Raetsky, Maxim Chetverik, Neil McDonald, Glenn Flear

Play the Queen's Gambit 2006 by Chris Ward

The Double Queen’s Gambit: A Surprise Weapon for Black by Alexey Bezgodov

Lessons from my games by Reuben Fine

My Best Games of Chess, 1908-1937, 21st Century Edition 2013 by Alexander Alekhine

The Life & Games of Akiva Rubinstein by Nikolay Minev and William John Donaldson

Selected Games of Lajos Portisch by Egon Varnusz

The Games of Tigran Petrosian volumes 1 and 2 by Shekhtman

How Chess Games are Won by Samuel Reshevsky

Grandmaster Preparation by Lev Polugaevsky

I Play Against Pieces by Svetozar Gligoric

My Best Games: Volume 1: Games with White by Viktor Korchnoi

My Best Chess Games, 1929-76 by Arnold S. Denker

Uncompromising Chess by Alexander Beliavsky

Ivan Sokolov's Best Games, 1997 by Ivan Sokolov

Ivan's Chess Journey: Games and Stories - Ivan Sokolov

My One Hundred Best Games by Alexey Dreev

My Most Memorable Games by Boris Gelfand

Art of Positional Play by Samuel Reshevsky

Secrets of Positional Chess by Drazen Marovic

The Complete Manual of Positional Chess volumes 1 and 2 by Sakaev

Lessons with a Grandmaster 1, 2, and 3 by Boris Gulko

Revolutionize Your Chess by Viktor Moskalenko

Advanced Chess Tactics, 2011 by Lev Psakhis

A Cunning Chess Opening Repertoire for White by Graham Burgess

GM Alexei Kornev

(Not really a 1.d4 player, but he is a good 1.d4 theoretician)

GM Simon Williams

(If you want to learn a fun and tactical way to play 1.d4, this is your guy!)

GM Krishnan Sasikiran

(One of the best 1.d4 players ever to be top 100 player in the world)

GM Konstantin Sakaev

(Very solid 1.d4 player)

GM Alexey Dreev

Very strong 1.d4 player

Years: 1984-2018

Games total: 2948

Wins: 1105

Draws: 1371

GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi

(The youngest 1.d4 player above the 2700 rating mark)

GM Glenn Flear

(One of the most difficult GMs to beat or draw when he plays 1.d4)

Years 1977 - 2018
Total Games: 1845
Wins: 768 (41.63 %)
Draws: 718 (38.92 %)
Losses: 359 (19.46 %)

Score: (61.08 %)

GM Chris Ward

(This guy wrote three 1.d4 books, all very good for club players, and above)

Play the Queen's Gambit 2006 by Chris Ward

The Queen's Gambit Accepted by Chris Ward

Unusual Queen's Gambit Declined by Chris Ward

GM Abhijeet Gupta

(Gupta is one of the 1.d4 young players in the world with most modern ideas in the opening)

I also play the sicilian loewenthal, kalashnikov, Sveshnikov 6.Ndb5 a6!?, O'Kelly, and Buecker variations against 1.e4.

GM Nadezhda Kosintseva has a 60 minutes video where she gives many variations to play against the loewenthal, I know most players I play against don't know these variations, so they are out of luck. Beside that, I think I can improve on the options she gives for black. Can she explain how is white going to get an advantage on the 9...h6 lines she gives in the video? I play 7...Qe7, I wonder what else she knows about it.

GM Nadezhda Kosintseva

I also play 1...d5 against 1.d4, so needless to say, I am ready for the Queen's gambit, and the Blackmar diemer gambit, as well as for any other tries (if I know you will pull a Karpov, and play the samisch against me, I will go Garry Kasparov/John Nunn on you, and play the king's indian). Agaisnt other systems by white or black I always try several different ways of play. I played 1.e4, and the dragon back in the days when I used to study GM Roman Dzindzichashvili DVDs.

GM Roman Dzindzichashvili

I also play my own secret sub-lines of the Winawer counter gambit, which I call the Winawer counter gambit anti-Kasparov variation 5...Bf5!? . and starts after 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 e5 4.dxe5 d4 5.Ne4 Bf5!? , I might be the only one in the world who plays this, and I have deeply analyzed it. I got the idea for this line after realizing that black loses too many tempos getting the pawn back with 5...Qa5+ then taking the pawn, and having to move the Queen again after white plays Nf3. There was also the issue of white playing lines where it castles long and harrasses the black Queen again on the d file (like in one of Kasparov's games back in the 90s)

The following video features a very interesting game in the king's indian samisch variation, GM John Nunn with the black pieces

kaspariano