WEBVTT 00:00.820 --> 00:01.450 Hi there. 00:02.900 --> 00:09.230 I'm going to introduce you to the slope of the fence, the Slav defense is super popular nowadays at 00:09.250 --> 00:13.600 the super grandmaster level Grandmont level and a lot of other levels. 00:14.020 --> 00:19.900 So, DeFore, you play D5 and after CIFOR, you actually play C6. 00:20.620 --> 00:24.490 In a way, sometimes this acts as a kind of uprights. 00:24.520 --> 00:30.310 The more classical Queen's Gambit declines because here you're volunteering the immediate closure of 00:30.310 --> 00:30.850 the bishop. 00:31.510 --> 00:38.350 Sometimes in the Slav defense, this bishop actually gets to come out, but quite often it is actually 00:38.350 --> 00:39.460 still kept home. 00:39.460 --> 00:48.610 Later, with black playing, C6 quite often sets up simply a solid looking triangle of --'s, which 00:48.610 --> 00:49.750 is the semi-solid. 00:51.130 --> 00:55.600 So if the bishop purely does come out, that's more of a pure Slav wethers bishop does come out. 00:55.990 --> 01:00.760 So that's the kind of distinction, as far as I understand in general. 01:01.510 --> 01:08.830 So here, when we try and play the main Slav wasdin in the main Slav defense hasn't yet been decided. 01:08.830 --> 01:17.320 If this is laugh at the bishops, Closed-End White Hair has major options like the free. 01:19.600 --> 01:20.950 She takes the five. 01:23.420 --> 01:31.400 Night frame, but believe it or not, this might move Seefried, not as main line as Afri. 01:31.820 --> 01:38.150 And I believe one of the key reasons for this, and I'm actually kind of testing this myself, there 01:38.150 --> 01:44.960 is an exciting candidate here which I once played in the Middlesex League, and I didn't really understand 01:44.960 --> 01:50.680 the total finesses of 93 against time for all this looks a little bit like an our bean scam. 01:50.690 --> 01:55.700 It doesn't that e5 so it's an interesting count gambit and I had a delightful win with this. 01:56.240 --> 02:02.320 And it turns out actually the preference is for players before it's clamped down on that pesky five. 02:03.440 --> 02:05.990 So by playing might have a bit of a fun kind of move. 02:07.010 --> 02:08.660 So that's what I'd recommend for you. 02:08.750 --> 02:13.670 If you're playing with the white pieces by Afri, make sure E5 is not possible even as a gambit. 02:15.080 --> 02:21.800 So, yeah, I mean, Black has played all the things here, not just this exciting gambit, which I 02:21.800 --> 02:23.780 would recommend to you greatly. 02:24.170 --> 02:34.670 But you know, Black has played might have sex esx dhc for which the Argentinian defense I wouldn't 02:34.670 --> 02:40.970 recommend a five here because with Mitzy free there is a park and it's kind of setting a trap actually 02:41.570 --> 02:42.560 because there's pressure. 02:42.560 --> 02:44.120 There is one upside of ninety four. 02:44.120 --> 02:48.710 The immediate pressure on the five Y can actually play here. 02:49.910 --> 02:53.000 The move can be free, which is kind of punishing Black's weakness. 02:53.040 --> 02:56.180 The last move and also putting pressure on D5. 02:57.290 --> 03:03.560 So this is, you know, rather awkward and I'll definitely avoid this at five. 03:03.890 --> 03:06.050 It's not very, very good statistically. 03:07.250 --> 03:07.640 Yeah. 03:07.640 --> 03:11.210 It's you know, the blacks already in kind of trouble. 03:11.550 --> 03:12.980 Does the bishop go back? 03:13.550 --> 03:15.860 You know, we're going to lose D5 the bishop goes back. 03:15.860 --> 03:17.660 Well, what actually happens here? 03:18.620 --> 03:24.800 You know, as an example, you know, Queen C7, you know, we can take on the five and, you know, 03:24.800 --> 03:26.450 the G5 pull out. 03:27.110 --> 03:30.440 So, yeah, you don't want to get in trouble with Bishop. 03:30.440 --> 03:31.640 I find that's something to bear in mind. 03:31.640 --> 03:35.840 It does have a little upside, but the downside is it doesn't control five. 03:36.380 --> 03:42.590 So that's why it seems, you know, Tafuri is is much more the main line, the most trodden. 03:43.160 --> 03:52.700 And here black often plays don't have sex, has various move for options here like quinsy to move for 03:53.540 --> 03:54.860 queen bee free. 03:55.700 --> 04:00.410 There's the slow love of every white volunteers to keep the bishop at home. 04:02.510 --> 04:09.350 But actually, it turns out, believe it or not, that noisy freight is one of the more common moves 04:09.350 --> 04:12.050 to spring the other light and see what black does. 04:14.240 --> 04:23.660 Now here, with pressure on the five and no counts available, you might consider you might really have 04:23.660 --> 04:29.480 an urge to bring this l I'm funny enough, you know, and sort of play it like a reverse London system. 04:30.980 --> 04:38.600 The thing is, in this position, black usually just sets up triangle and is content, believe it or 04:38.600 --> 04:39.980 not, to have the bishop stuck at home. 04:39.980 --> 04:44.030 And you might think, oh, well, what's all this about improving on the Queen's Gambit? 04:44.030 --> 04:45.020 Declined King's Cross. 04:45.030 --> 04:46.550 We're keeping the bishop at home. 04:47.000 --> 04:47.750 Yeah. 04:47.780 --> 04:48.350 Yeah. 04:49.010 --> 04:50.910 It is a solid position, though. 04:50.910 --> 04:52.250 It is the most played move. 04:52.250 --> 04:57.680 He says you can sometimes sort out the bishop in other ways later. 04:58.160 --> 05:04.580 It's not a bishop which is necessarily completely down for the rest of the game. 05:04.580 --> 05:05.960 It's up to you what you do after. 05:06.140 --> 05:10.550 It's such a nice plan to try and improve your workspace, which is a default plan. 05:10.550 --> 05:14.600 You can bear in mind in those positions, you have no clue what to do. 05:14.600 --> 05:19.790 Just maybe sometimes look at your workspace as a good policy and it gives you something to do later 05:19.790 --> 05:20.240 in the middle. 05:20.240 --> 05:25.680 Going to sort out this, you know, maybe be six or eight weeks later, etc. other things to do with 05:25.680 --> 05:26.240 this bishop. 05:28.490 --> 05:32.060 So that is actually a really, really popular move. 05:32.060 --> 05:38.270 But if you're really if your heart is into getting the out to play like reverse kind of long the system 05:38.270 --> 05:46.070 there is something called the Chaban and Koslov, which I actually did a few promo videos of my other 05:46.070 --> 05:46.880 work in chess. 05:47.300 --> 05:55.520 And this Chaban and Koslov means that actually you are prepared for queen bee free, sometimes even 05:55.520 --> 05:57.110 with the outrageous Roquet seven. 05:57.830 --> 06:00.050 So sometimes you do get to play. 06:00.320 --> 06:02.120 I kind of reverse London system. 06:03.470 --> 06:11.750 You know, for example, I would say, you know, every five you might think this, but now, you know, 06:11.750 --> 06:13.250 you have got an option of seven. 06:13.610 --> 06:16.760 And, you know, you can get a kind of reverse London system. 06:17.960 --> 06:19.340 And it's not entirely terrible. 06:20.930 --> 06:21.740 And there are the. 06:22.190 --> 06:23.850 Options as well, so. 06:26.360 --> 06:30.620 So if you're if your heart's really intent, you know, on of reverse reverse, this isn't getting the 06:30.620 --> 06:32.090 best out you really worried about. 06:33.080 --> 06:34.610 You don't want to just do the triangle. 06:34.610 --> 06:39.080 You know, Essex's is an interesting Slav, Chavan and Koslov. 06:39.080 --> 06:47.120 It's more of a pure Slav, not Smyslov, but also here you can actually play detailed CIFOR and you 06:47.120 --> 06:54.170 need to know this Slavkin, a garment that can be quite dangerous, named after Afine Geller. 06:54.380 --> 06:56.690 He was one of phishers, more dangerous opponents. 06:57.170 --> 07:02.300 There's also a free there's also the unhappen version with a fall. 07:02.720 --> 07:05.000 And here that brings a wealth of variations. 07:05.030 --> 07:06.230 This is supposed to be the main line. 07:06.790 --> 07:09.350 You do bring the best out on this occasion. 07:09.800 --> 07:14.720 And because there's no Quamby for anything, this is absolutely fine to bring the best out on this occasion. 07:15.270 --> 07:16.130 So that's the main line. 07:16.130 --> 07:17.020 Sheck variation. 07:17.540 --> 07:21.920 And here, you know, why can continue with Goitein for the blood attack. 07:22.580 --> 07:23.770 Excuse the abbreviations. 07:23.780 --> 07:25.930 I wanted to keep the indentation for you guys. 07:25.940 --> 07:34.190 I did spend some time on that slide, actually, with the indentation blood attack or the Dutch variation, 07:34.190 --> 07:35.180 V.R. variation. 07:36.030 --> 07:37.160 Look at the key underneath. 07:38.360 --> 07:42.310 Also here you have the craws attack. 07:42.330 --> 07:42.740 Sounds good. 07:42.740 --> 07:43.730 Does that cause attack? 07:44.120 --> 07:53.060 But if so, these are things which have been played before that instead of five and five, you can play 07:53.060 --> 08:00.080 ESX that is locking in the bishop again, the bishop G for at least brings pressure, you might think 08:00.080 --> 08:00.560 in principle. 08:00.560 --> 08:01.440 That's that's nice. 08:02.630 --> 08:04.310 A6 is the Smith operation. 08:05.060 --> 08:12.560 So yeah, there are all sorts of variations that are so after 493. 08:14.390 --> 08:16.400 On night Afri. 08:18.570 --> 08:26.490 You don't necessarily have to play free, not have sex, there is sex, which is a Smyslov transition. 08:28.980 --> 08:37.950 There's also a you know, you don't want to play every generally this is I mean, this is awkward. 08:38.220 --> 08:44.310 Half of the night have preying upon me if you play. 08:45.730 --> 08:52.120 Five, her S. takes C takes is a little bit awkward here, Queen B, Frank can be a bit awkward attacking 08:52.120 --> 08:52.660 B seven. 08:53.650 --> 08:56.710 So yeah, sometimes you don't want to be too keen to bring out your bare hands. 08:56.710 --> 09:04.270 The whole of business, you know, setting up the triangle is your top priority, essentially because 09:04.270 --> 09:11.590 of this B seven issue being a real annoyance, you know, so as black, you can't just sometimes play 09:11.590 --> 09:12.520 the systems as white. 09:12.520 --> 09:17.080 That extra temper really makes a difference is like in tennis, the first serve is quite powerful. 09:17.100 --> 09:23.980 In tennis, you've got to be very careful about whites initiative and potential to create overwhelming 09:23.980 --> 09:26.920 France with that extra mover advantage. 09:26.920 --> 09:27.790 When they're playing whites. 09:27.790 --> 09:29.870 He can't, you might think well on systemis. 09:29.900 --> 09:31.300 I'm a fan lunchers one system. 09:31.480 --> 09:33.540 I've got calls to check out Lawrences them. 09:33.820 --> 09:36.280 You might want to do it in reverse, but it's not that easy. 09:36.580 --> 09:43.030 The only route that I know of is this Chaban and Kosloff, this very interesting ASX move. 09:44.200 --> 09:49.210 So as we mentioned in this introduction video. 09:49.510 --> 09:53.950 So yeah, there's a whole wealth of ideas with the Slav defense. 09:55.900 --> 10:02.410 And as you start to know the finesses, then you know, when you can bring out the best, when you need 10:02.410 --> 10:09.220 to keep it as a triangle and the middle game plans, you often see a bishop when you're playing black 10:09.220 --> 10:10.300 against the fall. 10:10.540 --> 10:16.420 If you're playing it, either the Queen's Gambit, the client or the Slav, the bishop is one of those 10:16.420 --> 10:18.640 issues which definitely gives you a default plan. 10:18.640 --> 10:22.810 At least there's an upside you're trying to sort out quite often your bad pieces. 10:23.170 --> 10:28.960 And when we talk about bad pieces, sorting out bad piece, quite often the line pieces in particular, 10:28.990 --> 10:34.240 you know, can sometimes struggle within a certain pull structure, in particular the bishops. 10:34.600 --> 10:41.530 When you have a bad bishop, definitely that's like a default plan to try and somehow get the bishop 10:41.530 --> 10:42.370 out and about. 10:42.730 --> 10:46.030 Or sometimes it adds solidity, though, to the position. 10:46.300 --> 10:49.510 So there are tradeoffs and has to be always aware of. 10:49.900 --> 10:54.250 OK, so the Slav defense remains hugely popular today. 10:55.540 --> 10:57.880 So if you want a very, very solid line. 10:59.260 --> 11:01.300 Yeah, it's it's trendy. 11:03.490 --> 11:11.080 For me personally, as a Kings Cross, it's not totally my taste, I prefer more dynamic things, especially 11:11.410 --> 11:14.470 in online test myself, but that's just my personal 11:16.930 --> 11:17.470 leaning. 11:18.040 --> 11:18.510 Definitely. 11:18.520 --> 11:24.130 If you look at, you know, modern example games and you and you're quite content to have just a secure, 11:24.130 --> 11:30.100 solid position with the black pieces, which is very, very sensible generally, you don't always have 11:30.100 --> 11:31.150 to go all out for a win. 11:31.930 --> 11:38.950 Then, you know, this is going to be a tried and tested and has huge credibility in modern grandmaster 11:38.950 --> 11:39.370 chess. 11:39.610 --> 11:45.790 Some of the openings since the 1960s, 70s have faded in popularity and gone significantly down. 11:45.790 --> 11:52.750 Like the modern baloney defense, the king's endurance is not as popular a superior level as the new 11:52.750 --> 11:54.130 Slav trends. 11:54.130 --> 11:59.260 You know, the Slav trends or the groom for the fans, those to have risen in popularity in recent years. 11:59.440 --> 12:09.610 So Engin scrutiny making openings more solid, you know, less less able to break so easily so the Slav 12:09.610 --> 12:10.630 could be in. 12:10.630 --> 12:14.890 That took a very, very solid opening's you might want to use against one. 12:14.890 --> 12:22.300 Difford So it starts you know D5 and you just play says yeah ok that's a much.