The Slav: Move by Move c) 6.28 ag p> id iS A wee a Bay bs \ Ae an maia ns wr \Y — QR \ bo a A RN iy Zz x Orr Une este Er arcu td Answer: He sure did. This is the only way to avoid material loss or slaughter! After 7 &f4 e6 8 e3 Bd6 9 Lb5+ Ac6 10 Hes Kxes 11 Lxe5 Ld7 12 Lxc6! &xc6 13 Wa3 We7 14 Ldé6 the balance of power between White’s dominant bishop and its sickly Black counterpart be- came obvious in G.Kasparov-D Hausrath, Dilsseldorf (simul) 1988. Ce CT Ree CRON Lee RO Re RL nL Tg Answer: Nothing. 4...e6 leads to Semi-Slav lines which we don’t cover in this book. Here, we purists only cover the real Slav. 5aq Otherwise Black gets to hang on to his extra pawn by playing ...b5. We examine the mean-spirited Geller Gambit 5 e4!? b5 in Chapter 4. 5.5 6 e3 We cover 6 es next chapter, and 6 Dh4 in Chapter 3. 6...06 7 &xc4 Sb4 Black logically occupies the hole on b4 and keeps White worried about ...&xc3 in case White decides to push his e-pawn forward. 80-0 We've reached the “starting position” of the main line. Let’s buckle up our seat belts and deal with possibly our biggest challenge/headache in the entire book. 8...Dbd7 Black can also castle here, and we look at that line later in this chapter. With 8...bd7, Black keeps the option of castling queenside. 20