Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 19:38:03 04/02/01
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On April 02, 2001 at 22:31:13, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On April 02, 2001 at 21:59:41, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On April 02, 2001 at 17:52:03, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On April 02, 2001 at 16:17:16, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>
>>>>On April 02, 2001 at 16:07:12, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On April 02, 2001 at 15:50:24, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Hi there,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>in the game Chess Tiger vs. The Web ...
>>>>>>http://www.rebel.nl/gt2-web.htm
>>>>>>
>>>>>>the position is not easy for The Web. White have at the moment all important
>>>>>>fields and black not a very good plan. So I think an idea is to play h5 later
>>>>>>Ng8 - Ne7 to have here more possibiliys on the king side.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>We will see ... interesting ... !
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Best
>>>>>>Frank
>>>>>
>>>>>If white can't win with a king-side attack it is going to lose miserably in
>>>>>the endgame.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I do not understand the basis for this remark.
>>>>
>>>>I don't see any long term weakness in white's position. So what?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Christophe
>>>
>>>
>>>All you have to do is look at the board. White has weaknesses _everywhere_
>>>
>>>Every time you push a pawn, you create a weakness... white has pushed
>>>several. I would suggest asking a good IM/GM as to how this looks. To me,
>>>white had better roll on the kingside before the endgame arrives. Otherwise
>>>black can infiltrate wherever he wants, while white will be tied to defending
>>>all the weak squares he has created with those pawn pushes...
>>
>>
>>Weaknesses?
>>
>>Well I'm not a strong player, but I don't see weaknesses in white's pawn
>>structure.
>>
>>But I can see very poor mobility on black side.
>>
>>I would not dare to say that white has a better position, but I wouldn't either
>>say that it has a lost endgame...
>>
>>
>> Christophe
>
>
>with just a quick look, if you take the pieces off, black can enter white's
>position on either side of the board. White can't do the same to black. White
>has weak squares on the h-file since the g-pawn has moved.
So white has just to play h4...
> White has weak
>squares on the queen-side since a3 has been played.
So white has just to play b4...
>not that these are critical weaknesses now. But as the game progresses toward
>the endgame, I would want to be black. Right now I would probably want to be
>white, but not by a big margin. Black looks solid to me... I just don't like
>all the wild pawn pushes by white. White had better capitalize on those pushes
>pretty soon, or else black gets a paved road into the white position.
I understand what you say but I think you overestimate the weaknesses of the
white pawn structure. There is nothing unfixable here, and the space advantage
is worth it I think.
Christophe
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