Good chess book for playing against D4?

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ThrillerFan

First you need to figure out what opening you want to play against 1.d4.

 

Queen's Gambit Declined, Queen's Gambit Accepted, Slav Defense, Semi-Slav Defense, King's Indian Defense, Nimzo-Indian Defense, Grunfeld Defense, Modern Benoni, Dutch Defense, etc.

d0su

Understanding the Queen's Gambit Accepted by Delchev and Semkov is nice and succinct, I would highly recommend it. The authors present several variations for black, and the most concise version of the repertoire (which I have currently employed for the last year or so) is only a few chapters long. It's great, especially if you want to prepare for OTB play, as opposed to a more exhaustive reference manual for correspondence chess.

There is even some bonus material at the end to prepare you for stuff like the London System and the Hodgson/Levitsky Attack. It's definitely good to have something against the London, but thankfully you don't need a whole lot, and there are some great videos on YouTube that you can use to supplement.

GM David Smerdon posted a review here, maybe check it out:
http://davidsmerdon.com/?p=1769

kindaspongey

Alternatively:

The Queen's Gambit Declined Move by Move

https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/7743.pdf

Playing 1.d4 d5 - A Classical Repertoire by Nikolaos Ntirlis

https://www.chess.com/blog/pfren/playing-1-d5-d5-a-classical-repertoire

https://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/Playing1d4d5-excerpt.pdf

Play 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6!

https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/7799.pdf

kindaspongey
d0su wrote:

Understanding the Queen's Gambit Accepted by Delchev and Semkov ...

GM David Smerdon posted a review here, maybe check it out:

http://davidsmerdon.com/?p=1769

https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/7536.pdf

RussBell

https://www.amazon.com/How-Beat-D4-Ambitious-Repertoire/dp/1904600336/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1520965807&sr=1-1&keywords=how+to+beat+1+d4

 

kindaspongey

https://web.archive.org/web/20140626201436/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen80.pdf

http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/How_to_Beat_1_d4.pdf