0:14 "Not because its deadly, but because its boring". Truer words were never spoken.

I had no idea how similar the ideas are to the London System!

@jezolk

3 жыл бұрын

Same!

As a coach a professional, i must say, u are the best thing to ever happen to chess on youtube

Stjepan... definitely love the new format with plans, pawn structures, traps, etc as opposed to just popular variations. Thanks for the great videos! Understanding key squares and attacking patterns is very important.

As a Queen's Gambit player I'm most comfortable with QGA and QGD, the exchange Slav might be a way for me to cut down the amount I need to learn and also bring some unfamiliar territory to my opponents :) Thanks for all your videos best on youtube :)

@tgwnn

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't say the exchange slav is bringing your opponents into unfamiliar territory. It's very common at lower levels. That said, I got some nice positions as white there

@mosesmckinney1373

3 ай бұрын

I will say as a semi-Slav player the exchange just makes me cry. So yeah it’s great against Slav players go for it!

i've been waiting for this particular variation, thank you very much!!

Thanks a lot for the video Stephane!! Really instructive, love the ...Qb6 ideas. By the way, I agree this format is better as you can focus on just 1 variation and go with more depth. Million thanks!!

I love your videos! Great job and thank you for these lessons

I have adopted the Exchange Slav as part of my repertoire as white precisely because it psychologically depresses the typical Slav player. The biggest drawback of playing this as white is that, against a weaker opponent, black can easily find the best moves because the best moves are the most natural-looking moves. Since the objectively best moves are well-known, it is easy to spot an inferior move in this line. This is one of the advantageous of playing the Slav Exchange. I have found that whenever black plays ...Bd6, I have the most success in retreating my bishop (on f5) to g3. If black plays BxB then I have the open h-file for my rook. If black doesn't capture the bishop on g3, I have noticed that a common blunder for black is to play Nbd7, blocking his queen's protection of the bishop on d6. Now white can win a piece with BxB.

Thanks for including the discussion on Qb3/Qb6. I have had a hard time deciding when to play it and how to respond to it. I'd love to play this opening as white, mainly to sidestep all the Slav theory for now.

Beautiful video. Learnt a lot. 😁

excellent ! thanks a lot. very good job master.

Thank you 😊❤️

Thank you for this video!

Nice video! In these types of openings in which there aren't a lot of forced variations it is better to use this format. Thanks and gl in your chess

@aitorduoiruretagoyena1792

4 жыл бұрын

Look at 4.Nc3 Nc6 5.e4

mosalenko in his d4 reperoire book says that most players who play the exchange with white start with 4. Nc3 or 4. Bf4. cool that you focused on this variation at the end of your video

Very instructive. I avoid this variation like the plague.

Please do not forget the semi slav Noteboom variation to cover.

I accept all in a chess openig, but never a symmetrical position

white can spice it up by delaying Nf3 and bringing the bishop to e2 followed by g4 & h4

What do you think of the Boor attack, 4. f3

there are Qb3 and g4 ideas for white, no doubt increasing the complexity of the position.

See caruana x duda 2020 norway ,what a game

perhaps E5 on 5 - according to Nunns?

Hi Stepan, what do you think of this idea? ... 1. d4 d5. 2. c4 e6. Then if there is an exchange variation, it is not symmetrical. From here, can we transpose into the Semi-Slav with 3 ... e6 ?

@rosin87

11 ай бұрын

I also have this question. If taking with the e pawn is always preferred, why not play QGD and transpose to the semi slav?

@roqsteady5290

9 ай бұрын

@@rosin87that is a move order that many semi-Slav players prefer: 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 is known as the Triangle variation and if play this way you avoid some annoying variations, but need to prepare against the Marshall gambit 4.e4 . Can also play the Noteboom as black.

When should White play e4 instead of e3?

@hoodcountychess

3 жыл бұрын

It’s better to prepare e4 with Ne2 and f3 first. This is similar to the QGD exchange plans of attacking the center

I'm not sure why you thought that you should try to punish 4. Bf4 / 5.e3 in your training game - Alexey Dreev has written a repertoire book and recommends this set up for white and it is not aimed at getting a draw but getting a very small but risk free edge. To me it seems very similar to the london system so it shouldn't be a surprise that there is no refutation.

@roqsteady5290

9 ай бұрын

Agree. The main reason for the early e3 is to avoid black playing e5, since dxe5 d4 is annoying and quite good for black.

Who cares if it's boring if you can avoid 50 moves of Botvinnik Semi-Slav theory? :D

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what is your name.

My chess isn’t getting beeeettter!!!! 🥲

The exchange doesnt even effect the Semi-Slav players, there are plenty of move orders to get to the Semi Slav without allowing the exchange..

@tomekduresov706

4 жыл бұрын

Nimzo is probably to much work, I was actually hinting at the triangle setup, in my experiance it is scary and confusing for both sides, better prepared player usually has the advantage there, but I dont really get why people always whine about the exchange slav, even if you allow it as black you still have a lot of sharp options and some gambit lines that are not that boring and easy to play for white, and black scores pretty well with them, I wrote them on 1 of the previous videos, and also, you dont have to allow it either, and in the end of the day, draw with black is not such a bad result if you want that..

@rodneyfungus8249

2 жыл бұрын

@Davi Moreira You don't have to play Bb4 but the point is you cannot ensure you get a semi slav position as Tomek Duresov suggests.

Knight f3 ist bad it is better to play kc3 bf4 e3 and to delay the Development of the kf3

@nielsw.8587

4 жыл бұрын

It‘s Nf3, not Kf3.

Fell asleep watching this, definitely going to find another way to play as white

I don't know why more people don't avoid the exchange via the triangle system... the "refutation" of the triangle gives black a 10% better winrate than the exchange and is extremely interesting / dynamic, and leela doesn't even score it badly, like +0.18 in the main line... not like it's proven to be losing.... but nothing could be as bad as playing this 20% of the time... the opponent has to know nothing and gets easy pressure / you get practically no opportunities. I just refuse to play it. Maybe one day if I'm 2400 and I want to push into 2500 then I'll switch over to the slav exchange ... On second thought no, not even then. Never will I play this.

@cowkim

12 күн бұрын

Can you show the variation?

@ianrust3785

12 күн бұрын

@@cowkim 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c6 -> triangle system. 4. e4 dxe4 5. Nxe4 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 Qxd4 7. Bxb4 Qxe4 - sharpest line but engine eval / winrates are fine for black and it only shows up 10% of the time. Otherwise you often can play the noteboom which is a positive winrate for black, or transpose into a semi-slav if you want - like if they try to play the quiet slav or something.

@ianrust3785

12 күн бұрын

@@cowkim Although since I made this post I looked deeper into the exchange and there actually are usually some interesting ways of mixing up the exchange with moves like e5 or Qb6