CCC Forum vs BigLion chess960

[Spock]

Ne3 it is

Ne3 - Gerold, Christopher, Steve, Sven, Graham
Bg4 - Andranik, Matthias
a5 - Swami
g4 - Tano

[Spock]

Ne5 is BigLion's response
(Ne3 was a ponder hit but BL still thought for 39 mins about the response)

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The forum's move again

[tano-urayoan]

f4

[Matthias Gemuh]

f4

Matthias.

[Graham Banks]

I'm looking at Bxe5 possibly followed by Bg4.

[Steve B]

I'm looking at Bxe5 possibly followed by Bg4.

in the meantime i am futzing around with...
20.f4 Ng6 21.f5 Ne5 22.Bxe5 fxe5 23.Rf3

Luft Regards
Steve

[gerold]

I'm looking at Bxe5 possibly followed by Bg4.

I was thinking about f4. However since you suggested Bxe5
if it was followed by Bg4 looks to be a very strong position.
Waiting to see what others think of this brilliant move.

In a holding patten.

Gerold.

[Steve B]

I'm looking at Bxe5 possibly followed by Bg4.

I was thinking about f4. However since you suggested Bxe5
if it was followed by Bg4 looks to be a very strong position.
Waiting to see what others think of this brilliant move.

In a holding patten.

Gerold.

the brilliancy prize might have to wait a bit if black plays e6 after our Bg4
we then lose the chance to play the f4 pawn break because of the black pawn now on e5..we then would wind up focusing back to the queenside with a5 which we sort of decided against doing several moves ago with Nd2..e4..Ne3

probably best to get in f4 now with Tempo while we still can...

20.f4 Regards
Steve

[playjunior]

IMO f4 loses material, say after f4 Ng6 e5 Nf7

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If we don't play e5 we cannot hold the f4 pawn after an eventual retreat of the knight.

Meanwhile after Bxe5; fe Black gets a horrible bishop on c7.

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We can exchange the white bishops with Bg4 and have a permanent advantage of a knight which is alive vs. bishop which is dead. Then we will create a second weakness on the q-side and cash in.

Or, we can proceed with a5, (without Bg4), bring the rooks into Q-side and that should be close to winning.
So I vote for Bxe5

[Steve B]

IMO f4 loses material, say after f4 Ng6 e5 Nf7

not sure why we would play e5 after Ng6?
i think f5 would probably be the way to go
Steve