Rodi: The Queen’s Gambit Declined Chessbase Krasenkow became a Grandmaster in

Krasenkow became a Grandmaster in 1989 and achieved a peak rating of 2702 (July 2000)

It assumes familiarity with chess fundamentals and is designed for those looking to move beyond basic improvement to a deeper understanding of their own playing style

“I spent several months selecting the 444 exercises in this book from what was initially a much larger collection

with each issue covering a specific time period

or placed the knight to e2 to castle long and launch a pawn storm on the kingside

Rodi: The Queen’s Gambit Declined Chessbase Krasenkow became a Grandmaster inA Dynamic Repertoire for Black The history of the Queens Gambit is connected with the very beginnings of modern chess, the opening being cited in the earliest published books on the science of the game, such as the Gttingen manuscript (1490) and the books of Ruy Lopez (1561) and Salvio (1604). The so called Queens Gambit Declined or Refused is, together with the Slav, the main defense in the universe of queenside openings, and shares with the