Beating the Slav Defense – Timur Gareev
Posted on September 02,2014 By GM Levan Aroshidze in Strategy & Game Review, General Chess Articles, Beginner’s Corner. A bishop is bad if its movement is severely restricted, usually by one’s own pawns blocking the color of squares on which it can move. Conversely, a bishop is good if a player’s own pawns are on the other color of squares from the bishop. A player with only one bishop should generally place his pawns on squares of the color that the bishop cannot move to. This creates good chemistry between the bishop and the pawns, and also allows the player to[…]
Beating the Slav Defense – Timur Gareev
Posted on September 01,2014 By OnlineChessLessons.NET Contributor in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings, All Articles w/ Videos, General Chess Articles. Timur Gareev blows away The Semi-Slav with 7.g4 Gambit! 7.g4 Slav By Timur Gareev This DVD looks at the 7.g4 Slav and will suit Intermediate to Advanced Level Players looking for a dynamic way to strive for a full point against ‘The Slav.’ GM Timur Gareev presents using advanced computer chess tools to aid the ‘Slav student’. Timur looks at important en route considerations before looking in detail at Dreev-Dominguez match where the ideas of 7.g4[…]
Greatest Games of Chess ever Played
Posted on August 30,2014 By OnlineChessLessons.NET Contributor in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings, All Articles w/ Videos, General Chess Articles. The greatest game of all time! Roman shows us his favorite game – Kasparov versus Kavalek and in his own words it is magnificent! The King’s Indian is Kasparov’s choice and we see the GM use the Qd8-e8 maneuver before launching with …f5. Kasparov’s amazing Nb4 move initiates deep complications by offering his f4 Knight as a sacrifice. As this game is so short Roman examines some of the sidelines before showing us the remainder of this fascinati[…]
The solid …a6 Slav – GM James Plaskett
Posted on August 29,2014 By OnlineChessLessons.NET Contributor in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings, All Articles w/ Videos, General Chess Articles. James explains The Slav is one of the most respected openings available for Black and he shows us multiple setups for Black before getting to his chosen Slav variation the …a6 Slav when he gives a nice clear overview of: 5. e3 b5 with Queen Side play 5. g3 dxc4 Catalan style 5. c5 Bf5 6. Qb3 Ra7! Weird but good 5. cxd5 cxd5 When…a6 is useful 5. Ne5 N(b)d7 Solid and good James then goes in to detail of 5.e3 b5 in Oll versus Anand and we see Bl[…]
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