Grandmaster Repertoire 1 - 1.d4 Volume One

by Boris Avrukh

Grandmaster Repertoire is a new series of high quality books based on the main lines, written by strong grandmasters. The aim is to provide the reader with a complete repertoire at a level good enough for elite tournaments, and certainly also for the club championship.

Grandmaster Repertoire provides a repertoire to last a lifetime.

Top GM Boris Avrukh charts a course towards an advantage with 1.d4. Avrukh is used to facing the best players in the world. In this book he presents an improved version of the repertoire that elevated him to the top 50, focussing on main lines with a kingside fianchetto.

1.d4 Volume One covers the openings after 1.d4 d4 2.c4, particularly the Catalan, Queen's Gambit Accepted, Semi-Slav, Slav, and other Queen's Gambit lines.

• Critical lines explained by an expert

1.d4 Volume Two covers the King's Indian, Dutch, Grunfeld, various Benonis, Benko, Budapest Gambit and other minor openings.

Of course every book contains some inaccuracies and mistakes. That's absolutely normal process and we are all human. Also the theory moves forward very quickly and many ideas might be not so relevant in a few years. Still I believe I made a good work and hopefully my book will be useful for many years. Today I wanted to mention my absolutely worse  novelty.  I am speaking about Slav Defence, variation with 4...Bf5 , when Black opts for relatively rare, but very interesting 8...Ne4 I proposed new idea 11. d5 ?, which unfortunately quite bad in vew of very natural and simple 11...exd5 12.cxd5 Bd6 following by 13...c5, that gives Black excellent attacking chances on the kingside and makes White's position very dangerous, maybe there is some way for equality, but for sure White is not pretends here for advantage. Up to this moment, there have been played 4 games and White scored poorly with 0,5 point out of 4. No wonder it's much easier to play for Black. So please do not follow this recommendation!