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09-23-2010 , 09:45 PM

ReyzorXxX

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I took out his Queen early and haven't been able to trap this player. What is my best set of moves.

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09-23-2010 , 10:05 PM

ganstaman

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Is this from an ongoing game? We will only give advice for games after the fact, as otherwise it would be cheating.

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09-24-2010 , 03:00 AM

All-inMcLovin

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No cheating allowed.

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09-24-2010 , 04:18 AM

HipHopRTR

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If you need to ask the question ...

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09-24-2010 , 07:57 PM

Dynasty

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I'm sure the game is over by now.

...Qd6 followed by ....Be7 creates threats and frees Black's pieces.

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09-25-2010 , 11:27 PM

RoundTower

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a queen is a lot better than a rook, you should expect to win this position comfortably.

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09-27-2010 , 03:10 PM

jd_poker

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1. Bb2 forces rook exchange and you can comfortably chase down his bishop and pick off pawns with your queen now that his only credible mating threat (two rooks with the restricted king along the first rank) aren't forcing her to hang back to guard the first rank.

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09-27-2010 , 03:24 PM

hoyasaxa

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I dont like the look of bb2 (though I think you mean bg2?) because it leaves our bishop on a worthless square. I think Dynasty's plan of qd6 is good, though Im still not seeing a line where we get in trouble immediately taking on b4

edit: if theres a reason why and someone could point it out that would be super

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09-27-2010 , 04:21 PM

jd_poker

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I think I mean Bg7, actually. I don't think the bishop is much more than a glorified pawn until we free the queen to go pawn-chomping and give it some dark-square real estate. I only went with it because it was simply the fastest way I could simplifying without giving up the material advantage.

Given we have such a massive edge I'd rather give a theoretical 0.1 of a pawn and steam-roll rather than worry about keeping the game pointlessly technical when I am the only one who has something to lose.

Also, I'd overlooked ...Rc7, which leads to mate. So it's pretty bad to play Bg7.

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09-30-2010 , 06:08 AM

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Punker

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You have a queen for a rook and he has no compensation. It's a win after any move that doesn't just have basic tactical refutation.

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