The author presents a comprehensive guide to the Queen's Gambit Exchange Variation after 1.d4 d5; 2.c4 e6; 3.Nc3 Nf6; 4.cxd5 exd5; offering a full repertoire for Black against all of White's reasonable possibilities.

Grandmaster Repertoire 20

Lars Schandorff’s two volumes on 1.d4 were celebrated by reviewers and grandmasters. GM Simen Agdestein said: “I have recently been reading Lars Schandorff’s Playing 1.d4 books, thinking that it cannot possibly get more instructive than this.” Meanwhile, GM Boris Avrukh’s verdict was simple: “Lars, I want to play your book".

Grandmaster Repertoire 20

Lars Schandorff’s two volumes on 1.d4 were celebrated by reviewers and grandmasters. GM Simen Agdestein said: “I have recently been reading Lars Schandorff’s Playing 1.d4 books, thinking that it cannot possibly get more instructive than this.” Meanwhile, GM Boris Avrukh’s verdict was simple: “Lars, I want to play your book".

A Black repertoire based on the QGD. All the opening variations for Black have been chosen according to the latest fashion in the games of the top-class grandmasters. For example, after the moves 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.cxd5, Kornev analyses a line which has been played often in the last several years by Vladimir Kramnik

One year after my first book Winning with the Modern London System was published, I decided to round out our white repertoire to include Black’s response 1...Nf6. I have tried my best to write this book in the same spirit as my fi rst one, meaning that openings are explained through analysing