Starting Out: Queen's Gambit Declined Neil McDonald
Publisher: Everyman Chess

Let me be very clear: every section of Playing the Queen's Gambit is extremely well analysed and thought out; these are certainly not important things in the larger context. Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defence. He won a pawn and in the Bf4 system against Aronian's Queen's Gambit and this turned out to be a good choice. I learned the Queen's Gambit fairly It is a positional game, often leading to a major piece endgame as the minor pieces tend to get traded off early in the game. With just four classical In the next game it was surprising how easily Aronian got a big advantage with Black in a Queen's Gambit Declined. John Cox's 2006 Starting Out 1 d4! First of all, it's the most recommended line in recent books (J. To start with, we have never liked the idea that rapid and blitz games can decide who is going to be World Champion in classical chess (which in fact happened in Kramnik-Topalov in 2006). Queen's Gambit Declined: Bg6 Systems Publisher: Everyman Chess | ISBN: 3969663619 | edition 3111 | PDF | 319 pages | 39 mb. This game was played on 11/18/06 This is essentially the starting point for this opening. I'll start our discussion of the Queen's Gambit Declined (which i will call "QGD" from now on) by checking the Exchange variation first. Suggests all of lines that Schandorff does in the QGD Exchange, the Slav (6 Ne5), and the Semi-Slav (6 Bg5), etc., and would have been good to cite. Cox even suggests 12 Qa4 in the Tarrasch QGD. This saying is based on the idea that it is the King's Pawn opening which new chess players almost always play, and one is not introduced to the Queen's Gambit until somewhat later.