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Starting Out: Queen's Gambit Declined Neil McDonald
Publisher: Everyman Chess

6.4.2010 - Commentators have remarked that certain masters have favourite moves, an example being Gideon Ståhlberg's liking for the pawn advance c4 in the Queen's Gambit Declined and the French Defence. When I play white, I play the Queen's Gambit, and when I play black, I open with the Sicilian in response to e4. Coles points out that the great player (nine times British champion between 1905 and 1925) regularly played f4 or f5 early in the game. The Editor of Chess In his book H.E. Opening: Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch ECO D19 Video Rating: 4 / 5 . This is a well known sequence in the queen's gambit that anyone who has studied the opening is aware of. (when Black plays Nd7 they often do it to protect the Knight on f6 - but this doesn't work here ) 7. Black is not springing a trap here, black is simply playing a normal variation of the queen's gambit declined. I don't have a huge encyclopedic knowledge of chess openings. Queens Gambit Declined (Trap#2). I was getting spoiled by waiting for Fritz Sparring mode to make its obligatory mistake, then getting sloppy in the remainder of the game. This recent change of chess partners in my daily practice games was suggested by a blog comment. Lasker's Defense to the Queen's Gambit Declined (a 1.d4 d5 Black repertoire based on Steve Stoyko's lectures) · Lasker's Defense to the Queen's Gambit Declined (a 1.d4 d5 Black repertoire based on Steve Stoyko's lectures). Dans: 160, analysis, blitz, chess, chesscube, chessnetwork, chess_network, commentary, declined, gambit, live, master, mind, mindgame, national, network, play, queens, speed. Also maybe Rab1 is better because the a-rook is hanging if the b-rook has to move off the first rank. So I am alternating between Fritz 12 Sparring Not books that state a principle, then show an example and leaves the reader to try to figure out all the nuances of the principle. Atkins Doyen of British Chess Champions (London, 1952), R.N.