tony37 wrote on 08/29/12 at 20:05:41:

No doubt this was analysed by both parties involved, but without spending too much time on serious thought it seems that white get some kind of lead in development after 10.d3 Qxg2 11.Rf1 (engines top choice btw). If it is really good is a different question.

Ludde wrote on 08/29/12 at 07:19:09:

It seems like a real medicine for this variation. 

It all looks very convincing. I have tried to find anything for White, but it seems his best bet is to play for a draw with two rooks and a couple of pawns versus queen and a piece. Not exactly what I would want as White!

I find it strange if Delchev does not even mention 9...g6. If Black is simply winning, or at least clearly better, after 11...Nf6, it means the whole 6.Bb5+ line is busted. And it should not be that hard to see that 9...g6 is at least a critical try (and not just a rook blunder). Makes me suspicious about the whole book.

Keano wrote on 06/11/12 at 13:59:20:

Absolutely true, even though it seems rather unattractive for white to play with the N on d3 after fxe3. All of it is rather unimportant since in this line white at least has a draw, but in the line advocated by Thiele black seems to be winning, or close to it. The reason I brought it up was that to me it indicates that Delchev didn't put too much effort in his analysis of these lines. In the Anti-slav stuff on the other hand I'm quite impressed by some of his analysis.

Kazzy wrote on 06/10/12 at 19:55:26:


Aside from this (which might be an unimportant observation given the result of the analysis by Thiele) black can also play 8..dxe3 when 9.Qh5+ g6 10.Nxg6 hxg6 11.Qxg6+ Kd7 looks like a forced draw. This is one of the first lines the engine produces so it is not really a "find", but rather puts the question to how Delchev checked his analysis. It seems that the parts of the book dealing with the anti-slav (especially the g4-lines) are much more carefully analysed than the rest.

It seems like there's some trouble in the following line:
1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 d4 3. b4 f6 4. e3 e5 5. c5 a5 6. Bb5+ c6 7. Bc4

Check out Reinhard Thieles letter on the chess-stars homepage:

http://chess-stars.com/Reti_letter.html

This might be a refutation of the whole line.

Looks like a weakness in my old analysis is finally pointed out! I simply missed that White could ignore the threat to his d3-pawn, and for the same reason, I always thought that 17.f4 Bf5 would be troublesome for White's knight.

I have had three rather comfortable wins and one GM draw (a rather lucky one, but I was fine from the opening) in this line, so I haven't put this line very high on my priority list. Now I will have to take a closer look again, as 17./18.f4 looks quite strong. Maybe you just made me buy your book and/or subscribe to the Flank openings section, Tony.