Author: Telmo C. Escobar
Date: 09:14:55 09/30/04
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On September 30, 2004 at 08:59:28, Uri Blass wrote: >[Event "?"] >[Site "?"] >[Date "?"] >[Round "-"] >[White "?"] >[Black "?"] >[Result "*"] > >1. e4 g6 2. Nc3 Bg7 3. Nf3 Bxc3 4. dxc3 d6 5. Bc4 Nc6 6. O-O Bd7 7. Re1 e5 >8. Ng5 Nh6 9.Nf3 Ng8 10.Ng5 Nh6 11.Nf3 Ng8 >* > >What is your opinion? >Could white get an advantage? > >It seems that white is clearly better and black(gnuchess) blundered by 3...Bxc3 >but I cannot find a way for white to get a clear advantage after some analysis >with Ruffian1.0.1 and it gives scores of less than 0.5 pawn for white in lines >like >9.Qd5 0-0. > >Uri After 9.Qd5 0-0 White has no apparent attacking prospects and move 9.Qd5 is therefore suspicious. I would think about 9.h3 instead, as now 9...0-0 goes into 10.Qd2 with tactical trouble for Black. Yet (9.h3) Black has the more solid plan 9...Qe7 with idea of castling long and when possible make f6 followed by Nf7. Observe that the main reason to think that White has the upper hand is that he has the bishop pair and dark squares are a bit weak in Black's position. But those squares may be adequately protected by the formation d6-e7-f5. Then White should think on pawn advances to open the position, but those advances ruptures could be risky because his pawn structure is defective. For these reasons I wonder if we must talk about any positional advantage for White in the discussed position. In my view the move 3.Nf3 is no better than the normal 3.d4. The main reason -IMHO- for criticizing the exchange 3...Bxc3 is that Black condemns itself to a purely defensive game. Telmo
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