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Thanks to all our subscribers for their patience, I'll try to catch up with the schedule soon and to do my best in the next updates! During the last few months I fully concentrated on working with Kateryna Lahno and got a break only after the recently finished European Championship.
As to the update, I finally paid attention to the Queen's Gambit D60-D69 lines, as GM Bogdan Lalic asked for some time ago. There are no recent games in the selection but most of them are rather important for a better understanding of the system involving Black's classical set-up with ...Nb8-d7 and so could hardly be ignored.

Download PGN of March '08 1 d4 d5 games


QGD Classical Approach ...Nb8-d7 [D60-D66]

Kharitonov - Nenashev: A quiet opening line suddenly led to sharp complications and an eventual catastrophe for Black. He could have defended better but it was reasonable to be more accurate in the opening.

Fischer - Spassky: Black was accurate in the opening and White was unable to obtain any serious pressure. At some point he could even have faced some problems but Black was rather peaceful and after some manoeuvres the game ended with the most likely result.

Kamsky - Salov: Gata Kamsky introduced a small innovation on move 23:

and it brought him much better results than White achieved in the game Fischer - Spassky/ Reykjavik (m/12) 1972, above. However, it happened mainly due to his opponent's poor defence, as otherwise Black's position was worse, but defendable.

Vladimirov - Ubilava: Evgeny Vladimirov played a rather interesting set-up here, trying to get some attacking chances from the very beginning. White's initiative brought him an extra queen but Black obtained a sufficient number of active pieces to gain good counter chances - only some inaccuracies stopped him from holding the balance.

Agrest - Movsesian: Sergey Movsesian wisely transposed from the Slav into the Queen's Gambit when White had already played the rather useless Qd1-b3. Then White tried a positionally risky approach, exchanging his bishop and damaging his pawn structure in order to keep control of the center. However, the long-term factors worked in Black's favour...

Kasparov - Portisch: Garry Kasparov surprised his opponent by leaving his bishop on g5 under attack after ..h7-h6:

Accepting the challenge was the principled reply but Lajos Portisch preferred the safe approach, which did not help him to solve the problems. Black soon found himself under pressure and a few defensive inaccuracies made White's task easier.

Volkov - Zvjaginsev: White's rather harmless approach provoked Black into activity on the K-side. Although objectively dubious, it nevertheless put pressure on his opponent, who eventually blundered in a position with a big advantage...

Nikolic - Georgiev: Black's typical c-pawn advance led to some simplification, which gave White a slight edge in a position with his opponent's isolated d5-pawn

However, Black defended well and even missed a chance to gain the advantage - objectively White did not have any real chances to obtain something substantial.

Moiseenko - Iordachescu: Black successfully avoided the position with an isolated pawn in this game but White was able to maintain a small advantage anyway, thanks to his active pieces. Black's position seemed defendable but he clearly underestimated his opponent's resources...

Benjamin - Morovic Fernandez: Here one of the main lines was tested. White gets a small advantage but Black's position remains solid enough. However, he should be careful and patient in defence since any inaccuracy might help White to increase the pressure...


Ruslan

 

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