By Boris Avrukh, 616pp. (Quality Chess, 2010)
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Grandmaster Repertoire is a new series of high quality chess books based on the main lines, written by strong grandmasters. The aim is to provide the reader with a complete repertoire at a level good enough for elite tournaments, and certainly also for the club championship.
Grandmaster Repertoire provides a repertoire to last a lifetime.
Top GM Boris Avrukh charts a course towards an advantage with 1.d4. Avrukh is used to facing the best players in the world. In this book he presents an improved version of the repertoire that elevated him to the top 50, focussing on main lines with a kingside fianchetto.
1.d4 Volume Two covers the King's Indian, Dutch, Grunfeld, various Benonis, Benko, Budapest Gambit and other minor openings.
Table of contents
Key to symbols used 6
Foreword by Grandmaster Boris Gelfand 7
Bibliography 8
Foreword by the Author 9
The Bogo-Indian Defence
1 4...c5 13
2 4...Bxd2+ 19
3 4...a5 30
4 4...Qe7 36
The Budapest Gambit
5 Farajowicz Variation 59
6 Classical Variation 66
Benoni Systems
7 Catalan Benoni 92
8 Snake Benoni 102
9 Benoni without …Nf6 108
10 Reluctant Benoni 113
11 Czech Benoni 126
12 Old Benoni 144
13 Modern Benoni 164
14 Benko Gambit 201
The Dutch Defence
15 Stonewall Variation 221
16 Classical Variation 243
17 Leningrad Variation 262
18 St Petersburg Variation 289
The Grünfeld Defence
19 Dynamic Variation 297
20 Solid Variation 337
The King’s Indian Defence
21 6...Bg4 367
22 6...Nc6 & 7...Bg4 370
23 6...Nc6 & 7...Bf5 379
24 6...Nc6 & 7...e5 387
25 6...Nc6 & 7...a6 400
26 6...Nc6 & 7...Rb8 414
27 6...c6 426
28 6...Nbd7 460
29 9...Qb6 491
The Modern Defence
30 Wade Defence 501
31 The Modern Defence 521
Minor Systems
32 2...b6 538
33 b-pawn Systems 542
34 English Defence 556
35 Black Knights Tango 572
36 Old Indian 578
37 Queen's Indian Attempt 587
38 Odd ideas 593
Index of Variations 601
Boris Avrukh is a chess grandmaster from Israel. He is an Olympiad gold medallist, former World Junior Champion and analysis partner of World Championship finalists.
