Botvinnik Semi-Slav, The (Pedersen)
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15 <strong>The</strong> Main Line: 7 e3 liJd7<br />
8 Jtd3 dxc4<br />
1 d4 d5 2 c4 c6 3 tiJf3 tiJf6 4 tiJc3 e6 5<br />
i..g5 h6 6 i..xf6 'ii'xf6 7 e3 tiJd7 8<br />
i..d3 dxc4 9 i..xc4 (D)<br />
B<br />
be a profitable deal for White, but the<br />
modern conception is that Black's<br />
long-term chances are by no means<br />
worse, and many strong grandmasters<br />
are today happy playing the black side,<br />
taking a possibly very slightly inferior<br />
middlegame but with a long-term asset<br />
in the form of the bishop-pair.<br />
Slow manoeuvring<br />
To illustrate how the long-term asset<br />
of the bishop-pair can be put into practice,<br />
I will fIrst explain the basic ideas<br />
in the following position:<br />
<strong>The</strong> Moscow Variation has become<br />
increasingly popular for those not<br />
quite willing to take the risks involved<br />
in the <strong>Botvinnik</strong> System. However, attention<br />
has to some extent moved<br />
away from the rather dull but strategically<br />
interesting main line, which we<br />
shall consider in this chapter, towards<br />
the much more ambitious Anti-Moscow<br />
Variation (considered in the previous<br />
chapter).<br />
White gives up one of his bishops at<br />
a very early stage of the game, but in<br />
return gains a rather large advantage in<br />
space. Not long ago this was thought to<br />
Black's development of his bishop<br />
to d6 remains the preferred choice of<br />
probably the greatest <strong>Semi</strong>-<strong>Slav</strong> expert<br />
of all, Alexei Dreev. With his life-long
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