Marin, Mihail: Catalan Chess Training Program

The Catalan is one of the openings in which Black can indeed equalize easily, but often comes off second-best in the positional battle that follows. This is because the players of White have usually internalised the laws and plans of this opening better. GM Marin has carefully examined the variations of this opening, considering its details and the opening as a whole. The multiple champion of Rumania and successful ChessBase author points out numerous possible transpositions and related variations ? part of them even belonging to other openings. In this way, Marin not only offers promising insights into a true Grandmaster opening ? he also makes the CD an asset for connoisseurs of the Catalan. In no less than 62 sections, the various complexes of variations are introduced. There are far more than 1 000 annotated games. The database contains over 27 000 games, including a detailed opening key expanded by the author. To make the CD useful as a basis for your own repertoire as White, GM Marin has also included some lines that do not directly belong to E00-E09, e.g. the continuation 4. Bg2 Bb4+, which leads to Queen?s Indian variations after 5. Bd2 Be7. The CD is rounded off by a training database as well as a tree of all games. MARIN: CATALAN E00-E09 Note: This item may ship separately from the rest of your order. Item will take 2-3 weeks to arrive.