Spock wrote:I'll wait a bit and see if another vote comes along. (Swami, you could vote you know !) As a reminder, the position is:
I'd vote Be2.
I'll vote in some of the moves, I wouldn't be available for quite a number of days in this month.
Great !
Voting in some of the moves is fine. There are some people who have the time to vote every move; others just pop in when they have time. It works very well - or at least has so far, and did work in the match vs Steve's Tasc R30
So the tie is broken, I'll take Be2 as the forum's move
Graham Banks wrote:7.d3 with the intention of c4 and Rd1 (not necessarily in that order).
Yes 7.d3 and then 8.c4
it almost doesn't matter what black plays on move 7 actually
not so sure about 8.Rd1 though
currently toying with 9.Rc1 for a bit
After black's ...Bb6, d3 does not look that bad. I personally prefer not to have a bishop on e2 which cannot go anywhere except d1, but maybe in this concrete case d3 is OK because it prevents Ne4 and aids c2-c4.
IMO our white bishop needed to go to f3 (the best diagonal given the Q on a8 and the fact that we are going to attack black's center with c2-c4). Second best would be c2, where it aims at the k-side, which is always useful
So basically I agree that we need c2-c4, but not quite sure that d3 is the best way to do it.
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