Opening Repertoire: Strategic Play with 1 d4

In this book the highly experienced grandmaster Milos Pavlovic outlines a powerful repertoire for White based on 1 d4. The variations are very much based on strategic themes where an understanding of plans is far more important than memorisation of lines and move orders. The author focuses on important positional considerations such as:

• Which pieces need to be traded off.
• On which squares will pieces be most effective.
• What is the best way to develop the initiative.

Nowadays many strong pla...