The Powerful Catalan

A Complete Repertoire for White

Victor Bologan

• Publisher: New in Chess
• eBook ISBN:
  9789056915230
• Year: 2015

The Catalan is a solid yet flexible chess opening system that is popular on all levels. Both amateurs and top-level strategists such as Vladimir Kramnik and Vishy Anand employ this opening to put a lot of unpleasant pressure on Black.

In The Powerful Catalan grandmaster Victor Bologan presents a complete repertoire for White that covers all of Black’s responses. Also included are those variations where Black tries to steer the game into other openings like the Queen’s Indian or the Tarrasch Defence.

The book is classically structured (starting with the rarest variations before moving on to the most popular ones) and contains original analysis of many recent tournament games. Bologan’s clearly formulated verbal explanations are essential for a good understanding of the strategic plans and the tactical themes of the Catalan.
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Table of contents

• Copyright Page
• Contents
• From the author
• Chapter 1 – Queen’s Indian Style
• Chapter 2 – Tarrasch Style
• Chapter 3 – The Triangle Set-Up
• Chapter 4 – The Bishop Check
• Chapter 5 – The Bishop Check with 5…Be7
• Chapter 6 – Opposing the Catalan Bishop
• Chapter 7 – Playing for the Pawn
• Chapter 8 – Indirectly Defending the Pawn
• Chapter 9 – Attacking White’s Centre
• Chapter 10 – Combining Defence and Attack
• Chapter 11 – Bishop Check after 4…dxc4
• Chapter 12 – Developing the Knight
• Chapter 13 – Keeping the Position Closed
• Chapter 14 – Classical Variation
• Chapter 15 – Classical Variation 10…Ra7
• Chapter 16 – Classical Variation 10…Be4
• Chapter 17 – Classical Variation 11…Qc8
• Chapter 18 – Classical Variation 11…Bb7
• Back Cover