The Slow Slav for Black - Strategic Foundations

The move is ...a6, and it has followed him for decades — first in the Chebanenko Slav, where 4...a6 became his signature, and then one move later, in the quiet lines where White declines to force anything at all. In The Slow Slav for Black – Strategic Foundations, Malakhov explains what that pawn is actually doing, and what kind of middlegame it produces.