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A series of articles and lessons
written exclusively by titled players
for Candidate Masters, Elo 1700-2200

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The Dutch Gambit in the QGD - Part 1: GM Sergey Ivanov inaugurates our Master Class series with the first of a three-part series looking at an opening perhaps unfairly relegated to the "boondocks" of chess history. "Development of modern opening theory in many respects is determined by a well-known phenomenon: chess fashion. And it is quite clear: when elite grandmasters constantly play those or other opening schemes, then willy-nilly many other players start to follow. At the same time chess is very many-sided; in it there are a huge quantity of opening variants and gambits which for this or that reason are in the boondocks of modern theory, though their objective estimation frequently does not correspond to the stereotypes which have developed for decades. To one such, the most interesting variant - the Dutch Gambit in the Queen's Gambit Declined, the present article is devoted..."

The Dutch Gambit in the QGD
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 c5!?

Other content suitable for Candidate Masters:

Lessons Learned: Most aspiring players hear two pieces of advice over and over again: study master games, and analyze your own games, particularly your losses. In Lessons Learned we have combined these two pieces of advice, bringing you annotated master games, with a twist. The master who lost the game, is writing the annotations!