The Slav Defense is a chess opening that begins with the moves: 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 The Slav is one of the primary defenses to the Queen's Gambit. Although...
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The Semi-Slav Defense is a variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined chess opening defined by the position reached after the moves: 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3...
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eventual ...c6 – Semi-Slav Defense 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 – Slav Defense 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5 – Albin Countergambit 1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nc6 – Chigorin Defense 1.d4 d5 2.c4 Bf5...
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f3 Slav Defense: Diemer Gambit: 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.e4 Slav Defense: 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Slav Defense: 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 dxc4 Slav Defense: Slav Gambit...
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Chess opening (redirect from Defense (chess))
Lopez) and the Anti-Meran Gambit (against the Meran Variation of the Semi-Slav Defense). Chess openings are primarily categorized by move sequences. In the...
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same first move (1.d4) was played in every game. Only two openings, the Slav Defense and the Catalan, were played. Kramnik won the first round of this match...
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Slav in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A Slav is a person of Slavic ethnicity. Slav or Slavs may also refer to: Slav Defense, a chess opening Slav (village)...
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Mikhail Botvinnik and Yasser Seirawan used the Exchange Variation of the Slav Defense this way. White may also play an exchange variation in an effort to draw...
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opening takes characteristics of both the Slav and the Orthodox Defense and is classified as a Semi-Slav Defense. 2...e5 – Albin Countergambit (D08–D09)...
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List of chess gambits (section Alekhine's Defense)
Gambit Declined: Knight Defense, Alekhine Gambit". Lichess.org. "Tarrasch Defense: Tarrasch Gambit - Chess Openings". "Slav Defense: Modern, Alapin Variation...
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second move, after 2...e6 (the Queen's Gambit Declined) and 2...c6 (the Slav Defense). The Queen's Gambit is not considered a true gambit, in contrast to...
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transpose into many solid systems, including a reversed Caro-Kann Defence or Slav Defense (but with an extra tempo for White); the Exchange Variation of the Queen's...
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transposes to the Slav Defense. After 3.e3 Nf6: 4.d4 transposes to the Slow Slav. After 4.Nc3 e6, 5.d4 transposes to the Semi-Slav. A separate option...
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Look up Slavic, Slav, or Slavonic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Slavic, Slav or Slavonic may refer to: Slavic peoples, an ethno-linguistic group...
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The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia;...
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the black pieces, he preferred the French Defense or Sicilian Defense in response to 1.e4, and the Slav Defense or Nimzo-Indian Defence in response to 1...
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E94 King's Indian Classical Anish Giri (1) ½–½ Vidit Gujrathi (½) D10 Slav Defense Ian Nepomniachtchi (1) ½–½ Ju Wenjun (0) E06 Catalan Jorden van Foreest...
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later years, he often used the Caro–Kann Defense and Indian Defenses. An important gambit in the Semi-Slav Defense is also named after Marshall. That Marshall...
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that Black started to lose his grip on the position after 25...Ne3? Slav Defense, Wiesbaden variation, D17 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 Bf5...
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The Slav Epic (Czech: Slovanská epopej) is a cycle of 20 large canvases painted by Czech Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha between 1910 and 1928. The...
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Semi-Slav Defense: General (D43), 1–0. This was Carlsen's first win against a 2800+ player. Carlsen vs. Boris Gelfand, Tal Memorial (2011), Slav Defense:...
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Anand gave up a pawn but had sufficient counterplay to draw easily. Slav Defense, D14 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.cxd5 cxd5 5.Bf4 Nc6 6.e3 Bf5 7.Nf3 e6...
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Madrid B32 Sicilian Defence [5] 6 Kramnik Anand 1993 ½–½ 11 Groningen D14 Slav Defense [6] 7 Kramnik Anand 1994 ½–½ 17 Linares D41 Queen's Gambit Declined [7]...
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playing such openings such as the Old Indian Defense, Nimzo-Indian Defense and Slav Defense. His eldest son Yngvar Barda (1935–1999) also was chess master...
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defenses, the King's Indian and the Queen's Indian. Indian Defense An opening that begins 1.d4 Nf6. Originally used to describe queen's pawn defenses...
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Iron Dome (category Missile defense)
romanized: Kippat Barzel) is an Israeli mobile all-weather air defense system, developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries. The system...
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Bonsch-Osmolovsky Defense of the King's Gambit – 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 Ne7 – named after Mikhail Bonsch-Osmolovsky Botvinnik System of the Semi-Slav Defense – 1.d4...
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D10 club of countries, a proposed forum of democratic countries D10 Slav Defense, a chess opening a ten-sided gaming die in the shape of a pentagonal...
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English Opening (redirect from Myers Defense)
lines. Often dubbed the Great Snake Variation. 1...c6 can lead to a Slav Defense after 2.d4 d5, but White will often prefer a Caro–Kann Defence with 2...
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Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation. English Attack Anti-English (B90), 1-0 Anatoly Karpov vs Vladimir Akopian, Russian Club Cup 2006, Slav Defense: Quiet...
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