Power Play 24: A repertoire for Black against the Catalan

The Catalan offers White a reliable and solid opening system, but Black has ways and means of disrupting White's calm setup while maintaining a solid and healthy position himself. On this DVD, Grandmaster Daniel King presents a Black repertoire against the Catalan based on strengthening the pawn on d5, Black's solid support. If Black maintains influence in the center, he has a good chance of attacking the king later. King presents the repertoire using ten example games with the system 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3 Bb4+. The bishop check disrupts White's calm development. All three of White's responses (5.Bd2, 5.Nbd2, 5.Nc3) are examined. 4...Bb4+ has recently been played by Magnus Carlsen and has been used regularly and successfully by Vishy Anand and Boris Spassky in particular. The DVD also contains a system against Réti and English Variations, which arise after 1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 e6 3.g3. A big advantage of this system is that it requires little theory: you need to know and understand the ideas of the opening, but you don't need to learn sophisticated variations full of clever computer moves. This DVD presents complete games so you can see what typical strategies both sides use. And the games make you want to play this variation. This is an interactive DVD. At key moments in the games, Grandmaster King pauses and asks you questions. He challenges you to find and play the best move. He then gives you feedback on your moves in further video clips.