in today's ten-minute chess opening video you're gonna conclude your study of the d5 c6 setup that
you might have started in my other clip about the caro-kann and that's called the Slav defense and
the Slav defense is essentially the d5 c6 setup against everything in particular we'll start out
with d4 d5 and then white plays the queen's gambit and you respond with c6 from this point obviously
i want to give you a breakdown of how to play this system and it's general ideas I'm gonna cover some
of the main positions obviously I won't be able to go super in-depth into certain variations but
that's for you to do if you enjoy this video and you seem like you would benefit from playing this
repertoire so from here the most common setup is night of 3 9 f 6 and night C 3 D main position
with the three Knights obviously you have not been able to put a knight here Black has a big decision
to make right now do you play the open Slav which is when you take on c4 for a brief moment and
then just develop your pieces naturally and get a solid structure or do you enter a semi Slav which
is this setup with the triangle of pawns and the knight on f6 do you enter a shippin anko Slav with
a 6 and try to play b5 or do you play g6 which is called the Schlachter Slav which as far as I know
these are kind of the biggest main lines now just going into some of these you know DC 4 you've got
to learn a 4 which is the main line and that is designed to prevent you from playing pawn to b5
and solidifying your pawn but there's other stuff here like efore immediately which is known as
the Geller gambit if you want to delve into these variations you need to have a pretty strong memory
as is if you want to play the Slav as a more kind of system based player you can consider the semi
Slav but the semi Slav is a little bit passive but let me just kind of show you how to navigate these
more clothes positions if cd5 happens I mean it's it's actually funny sometimes you can take this
way and then put your knight on c6 but in general for example after something like Bishop g5 you
already put your knight on D 7 and so you would be capturing with the e pawn we saw this also in the
Stonewall video so normally you would be capturing with the with the e pawn and that will ultimately
open your bishop so you go for something like Knight d7 with this triangle of pawns let's say
e3 I'm not even going to necessarily name the names of the variations because I'm trying to
give you a more less of theoretical approach and more of a system approach but of course if you're
like 1800 mm you want to get like the best stuff out there I think Sam Shanklin recently made a
course so there's variations with 97 that involved playing Queen a5 Bishop before and trying to play
94 using this pin on the King that's called the Cambridge spring setup but in general I think a
good a good kind of practice would be develop the bishop to either of these squares let's say to d6
and then you can play something like b6 Bishop b7 and so that would maybe look something like this
this this the drawback of this system is despite it being super solid a good player with the white
pieces we will play the movie for at the right moment and kind of shatter the center and get a
nice and an aggressive setup now that's why you should learn the theory if you are interested in
this setup but in general you know if you get somebody that doesn't really know what they're
doing this is kind of what you go for with black and you know the bishop could be here if it means
getting in the way of the pin but again you know the point of this series is to learn an
opening in ten minutes or less right so I want to show you that you can play this against anything
besides e for that would be the caro-kann so for example let's say you get in English you would
play C 6 and then d5 Knight c3 d5 and now it's very difficult to avoid a mainline Slav defense
now white can play the d4 systems in a variety of ways here and I mean you would need a weapon
against the London which is not really part of this video because it's kind of just focusing on
the Slav but as a d4 player an anti d4 weapon you can't just play c6 against everything but
you can try you know you can try to solidify your Center play Bishop f5 and then 97 but your biggest
decision would obviously come right around here and Knight c3 is not the only move I should say
that white can play something also like g3 and try to play a catalan system now against this you can
develop your bishop maybe and then play e6 you can also maybe play something like III your opponent
excuse me might play something like III and then again you know Bishop f5 rather than getting stuck
behind the structure would be good and then followed by Knight d7 and Bishop d6 the only
drawback of playing a very early Bishop move like for example here is that you've got to be wary of
Queen b3 Queen b3 is a very nasty little move it attacks b7 it targets the center and if you're
not careful disasters could await you but again at the sub may be 17 1600 level I want I want to just
give like an arbitrary number not a lot of people are going to be taking advantage of your setup
with Queen b3 they're just not because they're not used to early Queen moves in the opening and then
if you get away with getting this setup this is the perfect setup as your Bishop is outside
the pawn chain and you're basically playing the London system but with the black pieces so that's
a little bit about the Slav defense it's a really good complement to you know the caro-kann you can
even try to start some games with c6 you know and then maybe they'll play e4 and now you've got a
caro-kann so the two of them kind of go together there is a bit of overlap but yeah I wouldn't try
to play c6 in every single game that you play but I hope that's kind of a nice introduction to these
structures I I would just get playing you know I would just kind of go get playing and shoot for
positions that look kind of similar to something like this right once again you know here ecigs
dc4 or try to go for this Bishop f5 obviously maybe you you know you might get punished but
II 697 Bishop e7 castles and then looking to expand slowly the center with the bishop on bisa
hopefully this was helpful I know you know the video is designed to be ten minutes long but
really I can't really beat around the bush that is the essence of the Slav defense I gave you the
branches of the variations now it is up to you to go find either a no official opening training tool
on it or just get to practice and see if you like it thanks so much for watching as always I always
look forward to your comments so today let me know what your favorite food is in the comments
below or just any other comments and I will look forward to seeing you on some of my other videos