Complete Slav II

Andre halvdel av bøkene "Complete Slav" dekker de fleste tradisjonelt viktigste variantene etter 1 d4 d5 2 c4 c6 3 Sf3 Sf6 4 Sc3. Gjennom å behandle bare de sterkeste fortsettelsene holder Sakaev boka i et overkommelig format, og leverer likevel et hovedverk om Slavisk dronninggambit.

Stormester Konstantin Sakaev har for øyeblikket lagt opp sin aktive karriere til fordel for å være sjakkforfatter og trener. Han vant to ganger gull i sjakk-OL med Russland i både 1998 og 2000, var russisk mester i 1999 og tidligere verdensmester både under 16 år i 1990 og under 18 år i 1992. Åpningsbøkene hans har høstet stor anerkjennelse.

Forfatterens forord:

The second part of the Complete Slav contains all systems that were not presented in the first part, namely a popular variation 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 dxc4 and also all systems after 4...e6. Not to mention the possibilities such as 5. g3 or 5. Qb3, I have presented lines after 5. e3 Nbd7 – for starters Meran (6. Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5) and Anti-Meran (6. Qc2 Bd6) lines.

Also the variations rising after 5. Bg5 are examined deeply, namely Moscow (5... h6 Bxf6) and Anti-Moscow (5... h6 Bh4) variations as well as Botvinnik system 5... dxc4. A possibility to cover such a multitude of systems in only one book (it was possible to create even 5 tomes) occurred only because I have tried to shorten the lines almost to the bare minimum.

There are plenty of openings books in where not the most important lines are covered – this leads to a creation of plenty unnecessary variations – the book starts to be `wishy-washy´.

In such situations I have decided to only describe why this or other move does not deserve to be examined deeply. Thanks to such a way of thinking this elaboration did not lose its quality and in my opinion it is even easier to find a relevant recommendation.

All of presented variations are analyzed on the same level as those described in the first part of whole elaboration. The book covers the state of the theory for July 2013.

Konstantin Sakaev