Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:18:40 12/12/03
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On December 12, 2003 at 07:54:50, Steve Maughan wrote: >Bob, > >>1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nxd5 6. Nxf7 Kxf7 >>7. Qf3+ Ke6 8. Nc3 Ne7 9. d4 c6 10. dxe5 > >[snip] > >>I can think of two replies here that appear interesting. >> >>10. ... b5, driving the bishop back and giving me a square to develop >>my c8 bishop to untangle the rook. or 10. ... Qe8 attempting to get the >>queen to the kingside and either trade queens or push the white queen away >>to untangle the center. No way I play 10. ... Kxe5? of course. :) >> >>Lets try the b5 line first... > >11. Bb3 > >The only move > >Steve Took me forever to find your reply. :) Our "thread" has become way too branchy. :) OK. Again, recapping: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nxd5 6. Nxf7 Kxf7 7. Qf3+ Ke6 8. Nc3 Ne7 9. d4 c6 10. dxe5 b5 11. Bb3 My first inclination here is Nf5 to try to untangle the queen and bishop. Were I white here I would probably just castle to get my rook into the fray. But I'll leave that to you. :) My Qe8 is also worth looking at here if Nf5 blows up. :) For fun, I let Crafty look at this, but not for long. It's king safety goes hyper and it likes white by about 1/2 pawn, without seeing any material won back. But that is not surprising knowing how it is maniacal about king safety. :)
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