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Opening Repertoire: Queen's Gambit Declined: Tarrasch

by IM Cyrus Lakdawala

from Everyman Chess

http://britishchessnews.com/2023/02/26/ ... -tarrasch/

I've never played it, but I like the idea of ...Bc5. I believe Black is just worse after ... Be7, and nowadays no one, not the merest club player, would play a move as anodyne as Petrosian's Nb3.

Although one of advantages of ...Be7 is it can be played against everything except 1. e4. A couple of people got to IM level using the Quality Chess book as the core of their repertoire.

I would have been interested in how good the ...Bc5 move orders chapter is, although I am probably not the authors target audience.