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The Slav Defense, Chameleon Variation has two general advantages. Firstly to compare it with many other modern chess openings, the amount of variations you need to be familiar with is really quite small. In fact the Chameleon Variation of the Slav Defense is more like a classical chess opening in that it relies heavily on understanding of general concepts and ideas over strictly memorizing the forcing moves that lead to an endgame (as is often the case in today´s chess theory, unfortunately!) Th