Winning With the Catalan

by Angus Dunnington

The Catalan is a favorite of many top grandmasters, with Kasparov, Karpov, and Korchnoi using it to good effect in key matches. Once White's Catalan Bishop has started breathing fire down the long diagonal, Black's days are numbered. This is the first book to explain the Catalan in a way accessible to club and tournament players. IM Dunnington focuses on the key plans at White's disposal, and how to exploit the typical errors Black makes when facing the Catalan, while providing full theoretical coverage of the sharp lines in which Black tries to hang on to the gambit pawn.

144 pages, Paperback

First published July 3, 1998