Workshop – Catalan Opening – Pawn Structures, Tactical Ideas, Endgames, and Theoretical Trends

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The workshop dedicated to the Catalan Opening is already a digital product. This product includes all the videos from the workshop as well as the PGN file related to the training sessions. Overall, the material consists of approximately ۷ hours of video and a PGN database which includes ۶۰ files!

You will find the following lectures:

Typical Pawn Structures – GM Petar Arnaudov

Typical Attacking and Tactical Ideas – GM Mihail Marin

Modern Theoretical Trends – GM Boris Avrukh

Master the Catalan Endgames – GM Grigor Grigorov

In this article, we will briefly present some interesting moments taken from the lectures.

Typical Pawn Structures – GM Petar Arnaudov

In this lecture, GM Petar Arnaudov presents the fundamental pawn structures every Catalan player should know.

In the introduction, GM states, “The Catalan is very popular nowadays and the theory is changing every day. I think that there are two main concepts: One is to try to reach a risk-free position, where our light-squared bishop will put pressure on Black’s queenside. The other is to sacrifice a pawn via b2-b3 and to obtain long-term compensation. GM Mihail Marin explained very well some of the arising pawn structures in his database for Catalan Opening. I am trying to present different examples and different structures. The most important structure is The Open Centre. Open Centre is the structure where both “c” and “d” pawns are exchanged. The positions are symmetrical so the piece activity becomes really important. The rule here is that If Black failed to neutralize or exchange the light-squared bishops then White is always better.”

The PGN version of the lecture consists of ۱۰ model games and ۴ test positions.

Below, you can take a look at one of the model games…….