This book is a state-of-the-art survey of all branches of the world’s most popular gambit from the viewpoint of the player who wants to attack with the white pieces.

Many of the world’s top young players, such as Kramni, Anand and Shirov have invested enormous amounts of time and analysis into making lines of the Slav, Semi-Slav, and QGA into reliable, ambitious weapons for Black. This book concentrates concentrates on the lines which are at the cutting edge of White’s counter-efforts, and provides a selection of aggressive repertoires against Black’s older defences, including the Orthodox, Tarrasch and Semi-Tarrasch. No player who has read this book need be in any doubt how to meet Black’s sharp approaches – be they modern, dynamic counter attacks or old, romantic gambits.