Winning With the Slav (Batsford Chess Library)

About this book

Why do so many Grandmasters play the Slav? Is it the openings resilience? Its counterattacking potential? Or the ease with which all Blacks pieces can find effective postings? This book by two leading Siberian masters explains in detail all the themes behind this uncompromising defense. Their personal experience with the Slav against the top Russian players enables them to prescribe effective remedies to all Whites unusual approaches and to explain how Black is to find counterchances against the solid main line in which White gains a pawn center that although large can easily prove to be unwieldy.