STARTING OUT: QUEEN'S GAMBIT ACCEPTED
Author: Alexander Raetsky and Maxim Chetverik
$21.95
172 pages
Everyman (2006)

Reviewed by John Donaldson

STARTING OUT: QUEEN'S GAMBIT ACCEPTED covers an opening that was dealt with extensively by IM James Rizzitano in a book for Gambit Publications. While that book had a very definite repertoire, this latest book on the QGA covers pretty much everything in fifty-one illustrative games. There is plenty of explanatory prose and the theoretical status boxes at the end of each chapter make for  a quick and helpful way to orient oneself.
 
I found the section on Rublevsky's favorite move order (1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 e6) to be particularly insightful. The authors explain that Black is trying to avoid the Furman line (1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Bxc4 c5 6.Qe2 by 3...e6 4.e3 c5 5.Bxc4 a6!? 6.0-0 Nf6. They characterize 3...e6 as a tricky move-order. No less than Kasparov has given it his recommendation.
 
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