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[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
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1. c4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. cxd5 cxd5 4. g3 Nf6 5. Bg2 e6 $6 {I don't understand why
a Slav player would voluntarily incarcerate his own light squared Bishop. 5...
Nc6 followed by Bf5 makes far more sense to me.} 6. Nc3 Be7 {Again, I prefer
Nc6, leaving open the question of where the dark-squared B will go.} 7. O-O O-O
8. a3 a5 {This feels like a knee-jerk reaction. I don't know that b4 and Bb2
was such a scary proposition for White. It seems that Black is� so afraid of
white's possible development that he neglects his own plans. Firebird
considers 8...d4 to be best.} 9. d3 {even better was d4, and white has a nice
type of Catalan position.} Na6 {Yeah, the Na6 ideas are common to many
openings. But here, with the e6/d5 pawn structure, it lacks any bite. I don't
see the plan connected with it.}� �*