I'm always impressed by their scholarship. Great dialog here between Ametanoitos and BPaulsen, two of my favorite contributors. Such valuable info gets published on this forum, it's hard to believe it's free. Although the book is clearly outdated in many places it is still usefull imo. Qc7 move the BPaulsen mentioned in the 7.a4 variation was also Rizzitano's choice in his QGA book.
I hope that i'll be able to post these variations here when i have time and if someone is interested of course!ĮDIT: i just saw that the. The idea, if memory doesn't fail me, is to play a quick dxc5+a3+b4+Bb2+Bd3. I'll find it and share it with you shortly.īut in the same 'book' the 6.Qe2 move you mentioned in an earlier post gets '!!' (as the 2.dxc4 is the only move that gets this '!!', so the QGA is HOB's favourite defense as it seems!). b4) the book offers a very strong novelty which repairs Black's position in a very critical line where White had good attacking chances. For example in the 7.Qe2 b5 8.Bd3 line you mentioned (which has been proposed by GM Dzindzi every time he speaks about the QGA, and in my opinion is probably better than the more popular 8.Bb3 as after the a4 move there is real pressure at the b5 pawn and the Knight can come to be after Black's. Studying the QGA with the help of Hiarcs Opening Book (HOB) is a pleasant experience as the book offers plenty on new ideas, novelties in the sense that they have been played only in computer games.
