Fighting the Catalan | Chess Openings Explained – NM Caleb Denby

National Master Caleb Denby talks about White’s Catalan, and how to fight it. Learn about the three main variations of the open Catalan.

2020.06.29
Levon Aronian vs Yifan Hou, World Cup (2017): E06 Catalan, closed, 5.Nf3

Noel Studer vs Etienne Bacrot, Biel (2017): E06 Catalan, closed, 5.Nf3

Brandon Jacobson vs. Tanguy Ringoir, 2018: E06 Catalan, closed, 5.Nf3

Fabiano Caruana vs Viswanathan Anand, Norway Chess (Blitz) (2015): E06 Catalan, closed, 5.Nf3

Ding Liren vs Fabiano Caruana, World Championship Candidates (2018): E06 Catalan, closed, 5.Nf3

10 Comments

  1. Hello. Thank you, this was very helpful…

  2. Thank you for this great video

  3. You are a great teacher! Thanks.

  4. Great lesson! Will apply to my own games 🙂

  5. I only watch this so I can try to go for QID without fearing the Catalan

  6. its a bit fast all these whirling moves all over the board -confusing

  7. at 7:05 the move Ng5 isnt stonger? forcing c6 coz if black play Nd5 we have checkmate on h7

  8. Great work.
    Can see the preparation for this content.

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