Day 15
So the spanish FM haven't replied to me yet, I have to assume I might not get it from him and have to do the work myself, which is fair enough.
Hopefully by day 50 I will have my entire repertoire prepared so I have more than a month's time to practice it.
I'm going to start with black, against 1. e4 I basically picking Caro Khan over sicilian because the sicilian is just too well prepped by most of the locals. I will give this solid system a try and aim to study some Karpov game. Against d4, I'm likely to be going with the semi slav, tho if work load gets too much, I will dumb it down to the slav main lines which I already have experience with. As white, I will have my English and KIA lines.
So Starting with the Caro, we begin with the classical system which will be played very often.
I compared the GM Repertoire to Bologan's chessbase series and I have to say, the GM Rep was more detailed and explored the branch lines stemming from the main line:
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nf3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. h4 h6 7. Nf3 Nd7 8. h5 Bh7 9. Bd3 Bxd3 10. Qxd3 e6 11. f4 Qa5 12. Bd2.
Here Bologan offers the suggestion of
12. ... Qc7 while Schandorff chose
12. ... Bb4 I will give both a look before making my decision about which one to go with. While Schandorff's analysis goes more into detail, Bologan does explain the ideas pretty well and Qc7 seems more natural.
Instructive opposite side castling hack:
https://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=1775571027
Transposing into some opposite side castling line in the QGD is prob my best way to deal with players who play 1. ... e6 against my Engish.