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09-14-2009 , 07:14 AM
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White to move. Not the toughest position, but a really thematic one and one that can come up in a variety of different positions. This was versus a 1700ish 15-min player and occured after the moves:

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Bf5 4. Qb3 b6 5. cxd5 cxd5 6. Nc3 e6
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09-14-2009 , 09:04 AM
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before you read this remember I'm terrible at chess

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I like Bg5, a nice active square for the bishop, that also comes with tempo. It can also create weakness around the king if he plays f6, which he probably wont.


Another idea is just e3, locking up the pawn chain and freeing the light square bishop

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09-14-2009 , 09:59 AM
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e4. After Bxe4 or dxe4, Bb5+. Nd7 will end up losing the piece after Ne5, Nf6, Qa4. So the only option is Ke7, leaving Black unable to castle and with his king hampering his development.
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09-14-2009 , 12:24 PM
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definitely e4. bb5+ is too strong with threats of qa4, bg5, and ne5 coming.
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09-14-2009 , 10:10 PM
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hoyasaxa, you always want to see if you have a forcing option before you look at positional moves. Don't look at the answers posted in the spoiler tags and try again.

Hint: first look at checks, then captures, then aggressive moves which attack pieces, then aggressive pawn thrusts. If none of these look promising then you can start looking for good positional moves.
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09-14-2009 , 10:55 PM
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Here's my way of thinking of it:

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What piece/pawn would we like to put where if we had magical powers to move pieces around without our opponent playing? The answer for me is to check the king with the bishop on the a4-e8 diagonal (basically Bb4+). ChrisV explains why.

So, now we know what we want to play, but how do we get there? Well, we need to play either 7. e3 or 7. e4. Which one? Well, 7. e3 isn't so forcing, so it allows black to make some move, perhaps 7...a6 works. On the other hand, 7. e4 attacks the bishop and so forces black to respond to that threat in the center, therefore ignoring the 8. Bb4+ threat. I think that it's worth the pawn as black gives positional compensation with 7...Ke7 and we may even be able to regain the pawn with Nd2 later.
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09-14-2009 , 10:58 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by g-bebe
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definitely e4. bb5+ is too strong with threats of qa4, bg5, and ne5 coming.
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Originally Posted by ChrisV
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e4. After Bxe4 or dxe4, Bb5+. Nd7 will end up losing the piece after Ne5, Nf6, Qa4. So the only option is Ke7, leaving Black unable to castle and with his king hampering his development.
Yip!

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I think Bg5 with Ne5 is the key here after e4.


Tactics like these can be easy to miss since the position seems very calm and the possibility is gone in one natural move.
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09-15-2009 , 12:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Discipline
hoyasaxa, you always want to see if you have a forcing option before you look at positional moves. Don't look at the answers posted in the spoiler tags and try again.

Hint: first look at checks, then captures, then aggressive moves which attack pieces, then aggressive pawn thrusts. If none of these look promising then you can start looking for good positional moves.
Another point that should be made is that Bg5 doesn't come with tempo, you need to check Black's responses. Black simply moves Be7, threatening to win the bishop, whereupon White has to either move the bishop away or capture Black's bishop. Either way it loses a tempo.
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09-15-2009 , 04:10 AM
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This one's good to know, since similar things happen quite often after 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.nf3 nf6 4.nc3 bf5?! 5.cxd5 cxd5 6.Qb3 b6?
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09-15-2009 , 04:29 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dire
Yip!

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I think Bg5 with Ne5 is the key here after e4.


Tactics like these can be easy to miss since the position seems very calm and the possibility is gone in one natural move.
Comment about the position in spoiler b/c it might spoiler the answer.

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I guess this goes to show how important the Light square bishop is for Black in such openings/systems/positions.

Sure in this game Black avoided the attack on an undefended b7 pawn with b7-b6 but was very very weak on the light squares and suffered because of it.
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09-17-2009 , 06:21 AM
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Standard, but one of my favourites playing White (-:

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7.e4 followed by Bb5+, Ne5, Qa4 etc.
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09-21-2009 , 05:59 AM
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not looking at any variations and thinking about the actual position, but

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e4


has to be the move.
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