A Practical White Repertoire with 1.d4 and 2.c4: The Complete Queen's Gambit - Kornev

The Complete Queen's Gambit Volume 1 - Alexei Kornev A Practical White Repertoire with 1.d4 and 2.c4 Paperback, 304 pages Foreword by Alexei Kornev: 'Sooner or later every chess player faces the problem of building hisor her opening repertoire. This is particularly difficult when you playwith White, since you need to be well prepared against all of Black'spossible responses. However, most players, including the author, haveno inclination to devote all their time to studying opening variations.Therefore, we have decided not to cover the favourite opening move ofOstap Bender * - 1.e2-e4. As our main opening weapon for White we have chosen the closedopenings arising after 1.d2-d4, in which an understanding of chessand a knowledge of the typical resources in the middle game and theendgame are often much more important than a detailed knowledgeof a large number of variations. We have analysed the most straightforwardpossibilities for White, generally based on the development ofthe knigh