Graham Banks wrote:11.h3 with the following plan in mind - 11....Bh5; 12.g4, Bg6; 13.Ne5 (or Nh4) with f4 to follow.
good plan Graham. B may not go to Bh5. B may go Be6.
In that case White plays e3-e4. Giving White complete
control the 4 middle squares.
h2-h3 drive away the black B and free up the white N and B.
Sending BL back home .
Best.
Gerold.
Hi Gerold,
better might be 11.h3, Be6; 12. Ng5.
The h3 plan I suggested takes the bull by the horns and enables us to get things rolling on the kingside.
I don't think there's much for us on the queenside despite the semi-open b-file.
Graham Banks wrote:11.h3 with the following plan in mind - 11....Bh5; 12.g4, Bg6; 13.Ne5 (or Nh4) with f4 to follow.
good plan Graham. B may not go to Bh5. B may go Be6.
In that case White plays e3-e4. Giving White complete
control the 4 middle squares.
h2-h3 drive away the black B and free up the white N and B.
Sending BL back home .
Best.
Gerold.
Hi Gerold,
better might be 11.h3, Be6; 12. Ng5.
The h3 plan I suggested takes the bull by the horns and enables us to get things rolling on the kingside.
I don't think there's much for us on the queenside despite the semi-open b-file.
Cheers,
Graham.
Good plan. However if BL does not play 11....Bh5 then we
need to take a good look again. Opening up on the K side
may leave white to open at this point.
Be nice if BL did move to Bh5.
We have a superior position, with very nice control over the centre.
Only piece we have to bother about is the Knight @ e1. I would propose to transfer it to e3 via c2; indeed we need to play e3-e4. For that, we probably need to force the black's bishop out of g4, because we don't want to have our bishop on f3 after we play e3-e4.
Spock wrote:I think one or two more people may come along to vote so let's see what happens
Bc3.
* If a4 then Black would blockade the square with Ba5.
* So first play Bc3 then plan a4 - a5 advance. Gaining space on the queen side.
* Of course White shouldn't trade the dark square bishop because it has more scope and it's already batteried along the diagonal as well.
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