Winning With The Slav
Why do so many grandmasters play the Slav ? Is it the opening's resilience ? Its counterattacking potential ? Or the ease with which all Black's pieces can find effective postings ?
Features games by such outstanding exponents of the Slav as Jan Timman, Aleksander Bielavsky, Artur Yusupov, Vassily Ivanchuk, Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand
Up-to-date and packed with new ideas
Covers all the main lines of Slav
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 White's 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.
The authors both live in Novosibirsk and have written theoretical articles in many publications, including the New in Chess Yearbooks.