<DIV><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Top chess grandmaster Boris Avrukh charts a course towards an advantage with 1.d4. Avrukh is used to facing the best players in the world. In this book he presents an improved version of the repertoire that elevated him to the top 50, focusing on main lines with a kingside fianchetto.</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 8.5pt">1.d4 Volume One covers the openings after 1.d4 d5 2.c4, particularly the Catalan, Queen’s Gambit Accepted, Semi-Slav, Slav, and other Queen’s Gambit lines.</DIV>