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2017 Champions Showdown: Biggest Pet Peeve?

National Master Julian Proleiko explains why Black playing a6 on move four is good to play in the Slav. This is the first of three lectures where Julian deals with a complex where Black puts his pawns on d5 and c6.

2017.11.13
Vladimir Kramnik vs Alexey Shirov, Vienna Millenium (1996): D15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 4.Nc3
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1123778
Viktor Korchnoi vs Alexey Shirov, Groningen (1996): D15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 4.Nc3
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1123745
Levon Aronian vs Magnus Carlsen, Tata Steel (2017): D10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav defence
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1859539
Peter Svidler vs Vladimir Malakhov, World Cup (2009): D15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 4.Nc3
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1565688
Dimitri Tyomkin vs. Sergey Volkov, 1999: D10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav defence
https://2700chess.com/games/tyomkin-volkov-r5-biel-1999-07-24