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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. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6. The position may readily be reached by a number of different move orders.
The "Pure" Slav or Main Line Slav where Black attempts to develop the light-squared bishop to f5 or g4. The a6 Slav or Chebanenko Slav with 4...a6. The Semi-Slav with ...e6 (without developing the light-squared bishop). The Semi-Slav Defense, a kind of a combination Queen's Gambit Declined and Slav Defense, is a very complex opening in its own ...
Play often revolves around making the transposition happen under favorable circumstances. For instance, in the Queen's Gambit Declined , Black waits until White develops the king's bishop to make the d5xc4 capture, transposing to the Slav formation (see below).
The Semi-Tarrasch Variation occurs after black plays 4...c5 in the Three Knights Variation. An important line in this variation is the Endgame Line where the game continues: 5.cxd5 cxd4 6.Qxd4 exd5 7.e4 dxe4 8.Qxd8+ Kxd8 where the queens get traded off in a similar fashion to the Endgame in the Berlin Defense , resulting in a drawish position ...
He is best known for the Abrahams Defence of the Semi-Slav, also known as the Abrahams–Noteboom Variation, or the Noteboom Variation: 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 e6 4.Nf3 dxc4 5.e3 b5 6.a4 Bb4 7.Bd2 a5 8.axb5 Bxc3 9.Bxc3 cxb5 10.b3 Bb7 (ECO D31). In 1933 he was third at Hastings in the British Championship, after Mir Sultan Khan and Theodore Tylor.
The actors in Jeremy O. Harris's divisive 'Slave Play,' playing at the Mark Taper Forum through mid-March, tell The Times what was like to be part of this production.
Semi-Tarrasch Defense of the Queen's Gambit Declined – 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 c5 – named after Siegbert Tarrasch [130] Shabalov–Shirov Gambit of the Semi-Slav Defense – 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.g4 – named after Alexander Shabalov and Alexei Shirov [131]
I knew without words that we had a connection," says Patton, who plays a slave-turned-warrior in the fantasy epic based on the hugely popular multiplayer online role-playing game, opening Friday.