Slav Open

Come play the Slav Defense!

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6...

• Want to learn how to play this exciting and sometimes complex opening?
• Maybe you already play some variation of the Slav but want to get better at it?
• Or are you a 1.d4 player and you just want to perfect your technique for defeating this popular defense?

Whatever your motivation, you are warmly invited to participate in this open knock-out double round robin event. All games are rated. Moves must be made no slower than once every three days. Up to one hundred players will be divided into groups of five. Then, the top two winners of each group will advance to the next round and placed into new groups of four. This continues until we have the final group compete in the last round for the title of 2008 Slav Open Champion. Players of any rating are accepted; the only requirement is that you have been around on Chess.com long enough to have completed five games. 

What could be more fun? What's more, there is no better way to learn how to play--or play against--an opening system than to just jump right in to lots of games.

This is the second in a planned series of large opening-themed tournaments I'm running. If there's enough interest, a third event will start in a month or so.

So sign up now, and if we get a big turnout, I'll be taking suggestions for other opening themes for future events.

 But only if this idea is a popular one. So sign up for the fun now!

Tournament will begin 2008-03-24 (Monday) 8pm US Eastern Time, if we have a full 100 participants by then. It may start a little later otherwise.