Description
The Meran and Anti-Meran Variations: An Insiders View by Alexey Dreev is an outstanding work by a noted expert on this system. The Meran Variation (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5) was first brought to the attention of the chess world when Akiva Rubinstein used it with success against Gruenfeld at Meran 1924. Since then it has had many champions at the highest level from Botvinnik to Anand. Alexey Dreev, a former Candidate for the World Championship, is one of the leading players of the past two decades to have used it as their main weapon against 1.d4. Softback 208 pages.
