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4. Nc3 Gambit in the Queen's Gambit Accepted and

A Repertoire for White

63 Seiten, kartoniert, Chess Enterprises, 1. Auflage 1986

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The most respected American opening theoretician presents an opening repertoire which players of the White pieces can utilize against either the Queen's Gambit Accepted or the Slav. The sequence chosen guarantees a complicated middlegame with attacking chances as opposed to some other lines which can lead to uninteresting and drawish play against well versed opponents. This work substantially revises previous theory on the variation. It is a most valuable tool for the serious tournament player.


Theoretical chess books tend to grow as much after they're finished as before. In the case of the book before you, a rash of new material came in just as I'd finished a first draft. This is particularly interesting because 4 Nc3 versus the Queen's Gambit Accepted has not really been in vogue since the early 60's. Why now, then? Quite simply, White's frustration with the main lines of the Q.G.A. (both Classical and Modern) have led to a reevaluation of his alternatives. In this context, 3 e4 and 3 e3 have been played extensively, but it's becoming clear that neither move produces very interesting chess versus a well-prepared defender.
That's where 3 Nf3 and 4 Nc3 comes in. At the worst, this sequence guarantees a complicated middlegame with attacking chances. At best, he gets a devastating initiative. In this book, I have tried to give White a complete Q.G.A. repertoire, beginning with an analysis of Black's important third- and fourth-move alternatives and highlighted by a discussion of the complex gambit resulting from 3 Nf3 Nf6 4 Nc3 a6 5 e4 b5 6 e5, etc.. The last three chapters deal with the related gambit in the Slav Defense, 4...c6 5 e4 b5 6 e5, etc.. This is not as well-established as the line with 4...a6, but has also had good success.
There will inevitably be a number of controversial assessments in a book such as this, due to the many unclear (and even bizarre) positions. Often I have been content to set forth a sequence of exemplary moves, since exhaustive analysis was simply out of the question. Unfortunately, not much help will be found from the few writers who have dealt with this material elsewhere. What has been written tends to repeat references to well-known, useless games, while ignoring the obviously critical continuations. Here I should mention the exception, Cafferty and Hooper's book (see the bibliography), which does an excellent job of digging up ancient references to the irregular lines. Overall, however, I have seldom seen a variation with such enormous gaps between what grandmasters know and what the average player has available to set up a repertoire. This necessitates a certain amount of added material in a work I had hoped to limit. As a consequence, in fact, I had considered brushing aside the whole question of 4...c6 with a facile "This transposes to the Slav Defense." But the exciting lines with 5 e4 have received almost no attention, despite Kasparov's advocacy, and the reader will be well-rewarded by a look at its amazing ramifications.
This is my sixth project with Chess Enterprises, and I want to express my thanks to Bob Dudley. He puts more effort into producing his books than many authors do into writing theirs.

John Watson, Fairfax, California 1985, Introduction
Weitere Informationen
EAN 0931462533
Gewicht 100 g
Hersteller Chess Enterprises
Breite 13,3 cm
Höhe 20,8 cm
Medium Buch
Erscheinungsjahr 1986
Autor Alan L. Watson
Sprache Englisch
Auflage 1
ISBN-10 0931462533
Seiten 63
Einband kartoniert
06 I Black avoids 3...Nf6
15 II 3 Nf3 Nf6 4 Nc3: Odd Fourth Moves
26 III 4...a6: Introduction, 7...Bb7, and 7...Nb4
32 IV 4...a6 Gambit with 7...c6
38 V 4...a6 Gambit with 7...Nxc3
49 VI 4...c6: Introduction and 7...Bf5
52 VII 7...e6 Gambit with 11...Qd7
56 VIII 7...e6 Gambit with 11...g6
62 Index of Variations