After you pointed out Qb8 I saw that black has some kind of blockade on black squares, temporarily denying us f2-f4. For that reason, I think, f2-f4 first would have been more precise.
OK
my apologies for misunderstanding your post
seems i have been working too hard maintaining and updating the lead post here
Regards
Steve
After you pointed out Qb8 I saw that black has some kind of blockade on black squares, temporarily denying us f2-f4. For that reason, I think, f2-f4 first would have been more precise.
OK
my apologies for misunderstanding your post
seems i have been working too hard maintaining and updating the lead post here
Regards
Steve
I think it is my fault too because I could have chosen a better wording in my initial post.
playjunior wrote:
Thanks for doing all the stuff, btw
its my pleasure of course
anyone have any thoughts on g3 for a move now .. to support f4 next?
i think Ne3 is also a good choice of course but squeezing in g3 now and then f4 might be playable?
it might provoke Ne5(discovered attack on h3) and then we could get in f4 with tempo
Steve B wrote:
i think Ne3 is also a good choice of course but squeezing in g3 now and then f4 might be playable?
it might provoke Ne5(discovered attack on h3) and then we could get in f4 with tempo
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Steve
19.g3, Nf7; 20.f4, g5; could be quite troublesome for us.
I'm thinking that Andranik was correct in that it would have been more precise for us to have played f4 instead of e4 previously.
The f4 plan is looking quite awkward to implement at this point. I'm thinking that 19.Ne3, Nf7 (I think that's what BL will play); 20.a5 could be better as Christopher suggests.
Plans involving Bg4 might be worth looking at.
Agree with Graham, that weird-looking g7-g5 is unpleasant. Also to me it feels somehow uncomfortable to play g2-g3 without putting the King on g2, I mean black can threaten to take on h3/sacrifice on g3 at any moment and we probably don't want that. Meanwhile, we probably cannot afford g3 and Kg2.
Regarding Ne3 and a5, black gets the b6 square for the knight or the bishop. OK, a7 is weak, but are we really going to go after it? If yes, why don't we prepare it thoroughly before pushing? The point is black has absolutely no space, and we can manoeuvre before we actually execute the break.
As for the move, I'd go with Graham for Bg4. After this, probably, we shouldn't play a5 because after putting the knight on b6 we probably have to exchange the white bishops which we don't want to do because at the moment any exchange favours black.
