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Re: Slow slav book to help colle player?
Reply #4 - 03/07/08 at 16:43:21
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Interesting question: books haven't quite caught up with the Slow Slav's burst of popularity yet, and I think some Colle books (e.g. Lane's?) omit moves like 3...Bf5 and 3...Bg4 altogether. You should definitely have a look at Richard Palliser's Starting Out: The Colle, where this is discussed. On the position after 4 c4 c6, the Kramnik-Topalov world championship games are indeed a must-study for 5 Nc3 e6 6 Nh4 (definitely the way to go for White), and Shirov's DVD of best games in the Slav and Semi Slav has handy analysis of his game v Fressinet in this line. I believe it's covered from Black's viewpoint in David Vigorito's new book Play the Semi Slav, but I haven't seen that yet. Have a look out for Volkov's games too - he plays similar things from the Black side too and can be quite instructive.
  
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Re: Slow slav book to help colle player?
Reply #3 - 03/07/08 at 11:50:30
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Study Kramnik's games!
  
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Re: Slow slav book to help colle player?
Reply #2 - 10/01/07 at 12:27:11
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The insight that most of these D-viations boil down to a Slav reversed does help a lot.
  
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Re: Slow slav book to help colle player?
Reply #1 - 09/27/07 at 03:53:00
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Richard Palliser's "Play 1. d4!" comes to mind.  It recommends a Qb3-based line for White (similar to the recommendation of old Colle books like Koltanowski's), rather than the Nh4 stuff that is now popular at high level.
  
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Slow slav book to help colle player?
09/27/07 at 03:28:49
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Does anyone know a good book that will help me play against the slow slav 

d4 d5
nf3 nf6
e3 bf5

I been trying out the Colle recently, and that is the response I get the most (ok I know, it is one of the most reconmended) is the above, and I want to really fight it.

Thanks.
  
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