Move order issue

I too have enjoyed and am using the Vigus "Play the Slav" book as a primary reference (thank you James!)  Have any of the lines in the book become problematic since it was published in 2008?

Jupp53 wrote on 05/20/09 at 12:43:28:


Yes, in general I try to buy the leading repertoire books for the other side.  I now have Vigus, for example.

Interesting approach from your side. This let's me think a little. I feel it's sometimes very useful. Probably is the selection of the good books for the opponents side important.

Markovich wrote on 05/20/09 at 00:02:40:
Tks. Schandorff is a white 1.d4 d5 2. c4 - repertoire. So I didn't look at it till now, because getting a better feeling and knowing of the black systems is the task atm.

In which way does it add to the (imo really excellent) Vigus-book.

Finding this thread in the net is great.

After a pause of 20 years of tournament chess I decided to restart with correspondence chess and a completely new repertoire. The book of Vigus is my black bible against d4 atm.   I never played the slav before and it gave me a really good start.

So maybe it's possible to give back some experiences. Relying on the English edition from 2008 there are my first remarks.

- Chapter one - page 58:

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. a4 Bf5 6. Ne5 Nbd7 7. Nxc4 Nb6 8. Ne5 a5 9. f3 Nfd7 10. Nxd7 Nxd7 11. e4 Bg6 12. Be3 Qb6
13. Qc2

This seems to be a new move here, played by E. Ortiz from Cuba. The book doesn't cover it and I couldn't find a game neither in CA10, nor in several other bases. Atm I'm analyzing 13. - e5 or 13. - e6.

- Chapter nine - page 187:

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 dxc4 4. e4 b5 5. a4 b4 6. Na2 Nf6 7. e5 Nd5 8. Bxc4 e6 9. Nf3 a5 10. Bg5 Qb6 11. Nc1 Ba6 12. Bxa6 Qxa6 

Here is the text: 12. ... Qxa6 exploits the fact, that White hasn't castled. (13. Qe2 c5 14. dxc5 Nd7)
But M. Santo from Andorra gives me a hard time atm with his plan of blocking c5.

13. Nb3 Nd7 14. Rc1 h6 15. Be3 Nxe3 16. fxe3 Be7 17. Qe2 O-O 18. Qxa6 Rxa6 19. Ke2 Rc8 20. Rc2 * so far the game has run.

As I'm an otb player beyond the level of 2000 pardon me, if this is bs.

I was a bit alarmed when I read this: did I really overlook the most obvious move on move 6? Then I realised to my relief that I had just assumed 6 Nc3 e6 would transpose after 7 Ne5 (7 Be2 looks tame) Bf5 to my next note (Kachiani-Paehtz). I haven't got Avrukh yet or looked at the Corus games, but my first reaction is that 7 Nh4 puts White a tempo down on the line 4 e3 Bf5 5 Nc3 e6 6 Nh4 Bg4 7 Qb3 Qb6 8 h3 Bh5 9 g4 Bg6, when Dreev notes in his best games book that he didn't fancy the routine 10 Nxg6 hxg6 11 Bg2 against Huebner, so went for 10 c5 Qc7 11 g5 without proving an edge here either. So I find it hard to imagine this 7 Nh4 is a real threat, but perhaps Carlsen has other ideas...

I have to stay with David Rudel's assessment of the position in Zuke'em. After Bg4 the only way to get an advantage is going for the bishop pair. Qb3 is more than playable but i don't think is the strongest move on the board.

Markovich wrote on 02/12/09 at 21:00:20:


Thanks! I Never heard of Paul Truong.

I recently purchased this book . I was surprised there was no coverage of  

[Event "8th European Team Championship - Semifi"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Rogetzer, Klaus"]
[Black "Williamson, Harvey D."]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "2451"]
[BlackElo "2360"]
[PlyCount "11"]
[EventDate "2009.02.21"]
[EventType "corr"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 Bg4 5. Qb3 Qb6 6. Nc3 *

a position I now face in a correspondence game and nothing in this latest book on what looks like the best move 6 - any suggestions? 6..e6 then?