by Boris Avrukh, 458pp. (2008 Quality Chess)

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Grandmaster Repertoire is a new series of high quality 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 One covers the openings after 1.d4 d5 2.c4, particularly the Catalan, Queen’s Gambit Accepted, Semi-Slav, Slav, and other Queen’s Gambit lines.

Boris Avrukh is a grandmaster from Israel. He is an Olympiad gold medallist, former World Junior Champion and analysis partner of World Championship finalists.

Table of Contents

Key to symbols used & Bibliography

Foreword by Grandmaster Boris Gelfand

Foreword by the Author

The Catalan 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3

1 4...dxc4 and 5...Bd7

2 4...dxc4 and 5...c6

3 4...dxc4 and 5...Bb4+

4 4...dxc4 and 5...Nbd7

5 4...dxc4 and 5...c5

6 4...dxc4, 5...a6 and 6...b5

7 4...dxc4 and 5...b5

8 4...dxc4, 5...a6 and 6...Nc6

9 4...dxc4 and 5...Nc6

10 4...Bb4+ 5.Bd2 Be7

11 4...Be7, 5...0-0 and 6...Nbd7

12 4...Be7, 5...0-0 and 6...dxc4

The Slav 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3

13 3...dxc4

14 3...Nf6 4.e3 g6

15 4...a6

16 Stonewall

17 4...Bg4

18 4...e6 Meran Style

19 4...Bf5 and 5...a6

20 4...Bf5 and 6...Be4

21 6...Bg4 and 6...Bg6

The Queen’s Gambit 1.d4 d5 2.c4

22 2...Bf5

23 2...c5

24 Albin Counter Gambit

25 Tarrasch Defence

26 Chigorin Defence

The Queen’s Gambit Accepted 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e3

27 Minor lines

28 3...Nf6 4.Bxc4 e6 5.Nf3 a6 6.0-0 c5 7.Bb3

29 7...b5

Index of variations