Grandmaster Repertoire 1B – The Queen’s Gambit by Boris Avrukh - hardcover

This Grandmaster Repertoire 1B – The Queen’s Gambit by Boris Avrukh is an English-language hardcover chess opening book for players building an ambitious 1.d4 repertoire. It focuses on the Queen’s Gambit and gives you Boris Avrukh’s expanded, updated and reworked treatment of the main replies Black can choose.

This volume is aimed at advanced amateurs, trainers and tournament players who want to work with current opening theory rather than a static line-by-line survey.

What the book covers

Volume 1B continues the 1.d4 repertoire after the Catalan and turns to one of the most important areas of opening theory. The book is designed to help you build a coherent repertoire against a range of Black defences, not just memorise individual variations.

The coverage includes the Slav Defence, the Accepted Queen’s Gambit, the Chigorin Defence, the Tarrasch Defence and other systems. It is a specialist repertoire book by Boris Avrukh, written from the perspective of a top-level practical player.

Series background

The Grandmaster Repertoire series is well established among serious players, and this title follows the same focused approach with a modern treatment of the Queen’s Gambit.

If you are building a complete 1.d4 repertoire, this volume forms an important part of the larger project, which continues in Volumes 2A and 2B.

Edition information

• Author: Boris Avrukh
• Series: Grandmaster Repertoire
• Volume: 1B
• Subject: The Queen’s Gambit
• Language: English
• Binding: hardcover
• Page count: 400
• Publication date: 31 August 2016
• ISBN: 978-1-907982-90-3