Standard Chess #187: snapper vs. IM Bartholomew (Semi-Slav Defense)

Support the channel: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr... In the Meran Variation White usually strives to achieve the e3-e4 advance (8.e4 or 9.e4) before Black can achieve the freeing break ...c6-c5. When White fails to do this I achieve a very comfortable position, though the position becomes sharp in the middlegame.