if moving a knight to e5 is a comfirmed bad move, capturing it suddenly becomes one of the best options to scrutinize
You should have waited till the forum finishes voting.
Cheers,
Matthias.
OK, I won't do it again
Maybe it is not a bad move after all, I used just one engine to briefly take a look after Christopher's comment, other engines may see things differently - although I'm not going to find out - it takes the mystery and intrigue away for me
It was Graham who suggested the move, I just looked and thought about it.
See the position after it takes back, which it must.
[D]1qbr1rk1/p1b1p1pp/1p1n4/2pPp3/P1P1P3/4N2P/3NBPP1/Q1R2RK1 w - -
Double pawns, weak kingside, add to that the fact that a5 is now super (or even Bg4) and I'm sold on it.
Bxe5 - Andranik, Gerold, Christopher , Graham
f4 - Tano, Matthias, Steve
Seems the a5-playing and the f4-playing camps completely switched
It all depends on BL moves. I was for a5 early. The middle and
King side has to come first.
a5 may be a good move if there is a need to pause on the
King side for a move or two.
BL has many good moves now.
After looking at this for awhile white is very weak on the King side.
Trading the black B looks like a weak move now. The double
pawn that BL has makes black position stronger in the middle
and on the King side. The black rook controls f file. Most of
Bl pieces are in good position. White will be fighting to get
a draw from this game unless BL makes a bad move.
Thanks, it's a pleasure. I'm really enjoying it.
Poor old Steve has the hard job actually, continually updating the position and moves on the first page of the thread.
