Playing 1.d4 - The Queen’s Gambit is part of an ambitious two-volume repertoire for White with 1.d4. The core of the repertoire from the first edition, published in 2009, is retained, but a multitude of details have been updated and improved within the lines. This is both the same repertoire but at the same time so much more, as when a boy grows up and becomes a man - many features are unchanged, but his strength and knowledge are expanded immensely.

The repertoire is completed by Playing 1.d4 - The Indian Defences.

Lars Schandorff is a Danish Grandmaster who is renowned for his deep opening preparation.

Content:
003 Preface

006 Key to symbols used & Bibliography

007 Introduction

011 1 Queen's Gambit Declined

013 Follow the Patriarch

016 The 3...Be7 move order

021 The Mainline

031 3...Be7

043 2 Queen's Gambit Accepted

045 The 3...b5 Variation

047 The 3...c5 Variation

053 The 3...e5 Variation

070 The 3...Nc6 Variation

075 The 3...Nf6 Variation

083 3 The Slav

085 The Rare 3...dxc4

088 The 5...Na6 Variation

090 The 5...Bg4 Variation

094 The 5...e6 Variation

099 The Mainline: 5...Bf5 6.Ne5

101 The 6...Na6 Variation

103 The Mainline - Part One:

103 The Bishop Sacrifice - 15...0-0-0

106 The Bishop Sacrifice - 15...0-0

108 The Bishop Sacrifice - 15...b5 etc.

110 Kramnik's ending

116 The Mainline - Part Two

118 The Classical Move - 11.. .f6

123 Morozevich's 11...g5

128 Sokolov's Variation - 7...Nb6

134 4 The Semi-Slav

135 The Botvinnik Variation

136 The Moscow Variation

137 The Cambridge Springs

137 Queen's Gambit Declined

137 Theory: Botvinnik Variation

166 Theory: Moscow Gambit

197 Theory: Cambridge Springs

211 Theory: QGD

217 5 The a6-Slav

219 The 5...b6 Variation

221 The 5...Bg4 Variation

224 The 5...g6 Variation

227 The 5...Bf5 Variation

231 The 5...Nbd7 Variation

239 6 The Tarrasch

241 Positional Play

246 Theory

250 The 9...c4 Variation

255 The 9...Be6 Variation

258 The 9...cxd4 Variation

265 7 The Chigorin

266 The System

270 The a6-variation

273 The active 4...Bg4

276 Early Deviations

280 8 Minor Lines

281 The Albin Counter-Gambit

285 The Von Hennig-Schara Gambit

288 The 2...Bf5 Variation

292 The Symmetrical 2...c5

295 The Marshall Variation

297 The Triangle Variation

305 The Semi-Tarrasch

309 The QGD with 3...Bb4

314 Index of Main Games

316 Index of Variations