A World Champion's Repertoire against the Queen's Gambit Declined Klassiker and ending with positions where

and ending with positions where even top grandmasters had difficulty finding the right move on the board (a good opportunity to test your skills and discover the beauty of hidden combinations)

Häufig beruhen diese Fehler auf einem mangelhaften Verständnis strategischer Zusammenhänge

and devise plans for exploiting them to the full

This set comes with an additional queen of each color

or to figure out where you're going wrong with your games

A World Champion's Repertoire against the Queen's Gambit Declined Klassiker and ending with positions whereIn the 1950s, World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik made the Exchange Variation in the Queen's Gambit Declined a dangerous weapon. Moving the knight to e2 and castle short was revolutionary at the time. Previously, White played his knight to f3 to launch a minority attack on the queenside later, or placed the knight to e2 to castle long and launch a pawn storm on the kingside. Later, Garry Kasparov followed in the footsteps of his mentor Botvinnik and