Pseudo-Trompowsky for White

The Pseudo-Trompowsky — 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bg5 — doesn’t announce itself with fireworks. At first glance, it resembles a typical positional setup, the kind of position Black faces regularly after 1.d4. But this similarity is deceiving. As GM Baadur Jobava notes in his introduction: “At first sight, this looks calm, but that’s exactly why it works.”