Chess Queens Gambit 1 Sample
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Chess Stars
Alexei Kornev
A Practical White Repertoire
with 1.d4 and 2.c4
Volume 1: The Complete Queen’s Gambit
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Bibliography
Books
A Strategic Chess Opening Repertoire for White by Watson, Gambit 2012
Playing 1.d4. The Queen’s Gambit by Schandorff, Quality Chess 2012
The Complete Slav Book 1 by Sakaev, St Peterburg 2012
The French Defence Reloaded by Vitiugov, Chess Stars 2012
The Meran & Anti-Meran Variations by Dreev, Chess Stars 2011
The Tarrasch Defence, by Aagaard and Ntrilis, Quality Chess 2011
The Queen’s Gambit Accepted by Raetsky and Chetverik, Moscow 2009
Grandmaster Repertoire 1.d4, volume one, by Avrukh, Quality Chess 2008
The Queens Gambit Accepted by Sakaev and Semkov, Chess Stars 2008
Electronic/Periodicals
64-Chess Review (Moscow)
Chess Informant
New in chess Yearbook
Correspondence Database 2013
Mega Database 2013
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Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Part 1. Black avoids the main lines
1.d4 d5 2.c4
1 2...c5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2 2...Bf5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3 The Chigorin Defence 2...Nc6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4 The Albin Counter-gambit 2...e5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Part 2. The Queen’s Gambit Accepted
1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e3
5 3...c5; 3...e5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
6 3...Nf6 4.Bxc4 e6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
7 3...e6 4.Bxc4 Nf6 5.Nf3 c5 6.0-0 a6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Part 3. Black avoids the QGD
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3
8 3...Bb4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
9 3...dxc4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
10 The Schara-Hennig Gambit 3...c5 4.cxd5 cxd4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
11 The Tarrasch Defence 3...c5 4.cxd5 exd5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
12 The Semi-Tarrasch Defence 3...Nf6 4.cxd5 Nxd5 . . . . . . . 122
Part 4. The Queen’s Gambit Declined
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3
13 3...Be7 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bf4 c6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
14 3...Be7 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bf4 Nf6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
15 3...Nf6 4.cxd5 5.Bg5 c6 6.e3 Bf5; 6...Nbd7; 6...Be7 . . . . . . . . . . 162
16 3...Nf6 4.cxd5 5.Bg5 Be7 6.e3 0–0 7.Bd3 Nbd7 8.Qc2 Re8
9.Nf3Nf810.0–0c611.h3без11...Be6................176
17 3...Nf6 4.cxd5 5.Bg5 Be7 6.e3 0–0 7.Bd3 Nbd7 8.Qc2 Re8
9.Nf3 Nf8 10.0–0 c6 11.h3 Be6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
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Part 5. Slav Defence
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3
18 The Winawer Counter-gambit 3...e5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
19 3...dxc4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
20 3...Nf6 4.e3 Bf5; 4...Bg4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
21 The Chebanenko variation 3...Nf6 4.e3 a6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
22 The Schlechter variation 3...Nf6 4.e3 g6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
23 3...Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Nf3 a6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
24 Black avoids the main lines of the Meran variation
3...Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 Bb4; 6...Bd6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
25 The Meran variation 3...Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Nf3 Nbd7
6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Index of Variations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
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PREFACE
Sooner or later every chess player faces the problem of building his
or her opening repertoire. This is particularly difficult when you play
with White, since you need to be well prepared against all of Black’s
possible responses. However, most players, including the author, have
no inclination to devote all their time to studying opening variations.
Therefore, we have decided not to cover the favourite opening move of
Ostap Bender * – 1.e2-e4.
As our main opening weapon for White we have chosen the closed
openings arising after 1.d2-d4, in which an understanding of chess
and a knowledge of the typical resources in the middle game and the
endgame are often much more important than a detailed knowledge
of a large number of variations. We have analysed the most straight-
forward possibilities for White, generally based on the development of
the knight to c3 and the fastest possible occupation of the centre with
pawns.
Unfortunately it is impossible to cover all the possible theory after
1.d2-d4 for White within a single book, so the author plans to publish
two further volumes.
The first book is devoted to the move 1...d7-d5 for Black. I believe
that the most challenging defences for White to face are the Queen’s
Gambit Accepted (Part 2), the Queen’s Gambit Declined (Part 4) and
the Slav Defence (Part 5). A few less popular options for Black are cov-
ered in Parts 1 and 3.
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* Ostap Bender is the picaresque hero of the hugely popular Russian
comic novel “The Twelve Chairs” (1928) by Ilf and Petrov. It is still
not widely known in the West, despite the efforts of, for instance, Mel
Brooks, who made a film adaptation of it in 1970.
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In the second book we shall deal with the openings in which Black
fianchettoes his dark-squared bishop. These are first and foremost the
Gruenfeld and the King’s Indian Defence.
In book three we shall analyse in detail the Nimzo-Indian Defence
and a few other defences not covered in our first two books.
This series has been written for players of all levels. The author
hopes that it will be useful for grandmasters as well as for amateur
players.
The author wishes to express his deepest gratitude to Margarita
Schepetkova and Ekaterina Smirnova for their invaluable help in the
creation of this book.
Alexei Kornev
