Chess Notes On Slav Defence

8 August 2010, Kuala Lumpur – Found an interesting news article on Slav Defence in the internet.

Below is the game from the US Junior Championship which was annotated by GM Patrick Wolff, a two time US Champion.

Shankland Zhao US Junior Championship 2010 Slav Defense

Shankland Zhao	Shankland Zhao
White Black	White Black
1. d4 d5	19. Bc1 Rad8
2. c4 c6	20. Bf3 Bf8 (f)
3. Nf3 Nf6	21. Rhg1 Nc4
4. e3 Bg4	22. e4! dxe4
5. Qb3 Qb6	23. Nxe4 Qb4
6. Nc3 e6	24. Ka1 Nb6? (g)
7. Nh4 Be7	25. Bxh5! gxh5
8. h3 Bh5	26. Nf6+! gxf6
9. g4 Bg6	27. gxf6+ Kh8
10. Nxg6 hxg6	28. Rg5 Rd5
11. Bg2 (a) Nbd7	29. Rdg1 Rxg5
12. g5! Nh5	30. Rxg5 Qb5 (h)
13. h4 Qc7 (b)	31. Rxb5 cxb5
14. cxd5 exd5	32. a3 b4
15. Qc2 Qd6 (c)	33. Qd1 b3
16. Bd2 O-O (d)	34. Qxb3 (i) Re1
17. O-O-O (e) Nb6	35. Qxf7 Rxc1+
18. Kb1 Rfe8	36. Ka2 (j) 1-0