page 1 of 76; games 1-25 of 1,885  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. P K Seuffert vs E Schallopp   0-1 40 1893 DSB-08.Kongress D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 2. E Hymes vs Albin   1-0 58 1894 New York D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 3. Salwe vs E Cohn   1-0 134 1909 St.Petersburg D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 4. C Jaffe vs Alapin   1-0 54 1911 Karlsbad D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 5. Salwe vs E Cohn   1-0 52 1911 Karlsbad D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 6. E Cohn vs Alapin   ½-½ 47 1911 Karlsbad D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 7. Capablanca vs Schlechter ½-½ 32 1911 San Sebastian D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 8. Schlechter vs J Perlis 1-0 8 1911 Analysis D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 9. B Kostic vs Capablanca   ½-½ 50 1916 New York Rice prel D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 10. Breyer vs Gruenfeld   1-0 17 1918 Kosice D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 11. A G Conde vs B Kostic   0-1 47 1919 Hastings D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 12. Breyer vs Reti   ½-½ 39 1920 Goteborg D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 13. Maroczy vs Tarrasch   1-0 56 1920 Berlin D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 14. Lasker vs Capablanca ½-½ 30 1921 Lasker-Capablanca World Championship Match D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 15. Chodera vs F Treybal   0-1 36 1921 Prague-ch D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 16. R Grau vs R Illa   ½-½ 17 1921 Carrasco D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 17. Prokes vs Tarrasch   1-0 36 1922 Bad Pistyan it, CZE D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 18. Kmoch vs Alekhine 0-1 20 1922 Vienna D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 19. Euwe vs Loman 1-0 22 1922 Amsterdam D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 20. P Kruger vs Loman   1-0 33 1922 Match GER-NED D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 21. Gruenfeld vs S Wolf   ½-½ 57 1923 Vienna D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 22. Teichmann vs Spielmann   1-0 32 1923 Karlsbad D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 23. Colle vs Euwe 1-0 25 1923 Hastings2324 ,HCL 24 D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 24. J Moeller vs Samisch   0-1 44 1923 Copenhagen DEN D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 25. Colle vs G Oskam   1-0 26 1923 Scheveningen NED D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav  page 1 of 76; games 1-25 of 1,885    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)

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Feb-14-03    Bears092: In something like this, why does white lock in his dark bishop? I prefer to bring it to g5 first... Feb-14-03    Spitecheck: In my humble opinion, especially in the Slav where black has not already played e6, the Bishop to g5 does not pin the knight on f6 or for that matter threaten to exchange it doubling pawns, as black quite often plays Nbd7 anyhows (the self pinning e6 usually follows as well).....in a sense Bg5 is more of a tempo winner for black than it usually is for him in the QGD. The other point is that white must play e3 in the opening either way, thus the bishop will be locked to the king side. Bg5 can aid the pawn going all the way to e4 of course. I like a quote from Karpov in the Master Chess tournament book. He refers to white playing an early e3.."He saves his bishop for the future", it's a positive way of looking at it I guess. I guess Bg5 seals the bishops fate 9 times out of 10, it will be exchanged on the kingside for either a knight or it's rival counterpart on e7. Feb-14-03    refutor: there's two ways of looking at it...1) that the D12 line is inferior to the other lines (which i believe) or 2) you keep your options open by leaving your bishop there...you can either fianchetto or work to get e4 in Feb-16-07    e4Newman: can someone help me with my study of the slav. i've reviewed a number of games by topa, kramnik, vishy, etc... and can't get over the fact that black gives up his well supported d-pawn. i see there are lines where ...dxc4 is delayed or avoided. can someone point me to a player, eco, or game collection without dxc4? or am i barking up the wrong tree? many thanks!!

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