Author: Daniel Pineo
Date: 04:48:47 04/15/05
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On April 15, 2005 at 05:07:08, chandler yergin wrote: >On April 15, 2005 at 00:29:32, Daniel Pineo wrote: > >>On April 14, 2005 at 19:58:29, Jason Kent wrote: >> >>>Here is an interesting position in a game I played (with white) against Shredder >>>9 UCI. Do any engines actually prefer white here? >>> >>>[D]1r3rk1/p1qbbppp/p3p3/3p1nPP/3P1P2/4PN2/PP3K2/R1BQ1NR1 w - - >> >>I would hope not. Are you suggesting white is winning? White is badly behind >>in development with both rooks out of play, a bad and undeveloped bishop, a >>knight out of play at f1, and the queen still on d1 where she started. In fact, >>the only developed piece is the knight on f3. Not too impressive considering >>this move is availible as the very first move of the game. White's kingside >>protection is gone and the king is sitting on a weak second rank, about to be >>checked by an attack down the b or c files (or both). Any hope white has for >>counterplay on the kingside with the pushed pawns is a dream, the rook on g1 >>just isn't going to be enough to get the job done. >> >>Black on the otherhand is very well developed. Black has connected rooks, two >>good bishops, a well posted knight(with another post 2 hops away at e4), a safe >>king, and control of every open file on the board. > >1.Ng3 Threatening to remove Black's most active piece. If you capture f5 then you're just going to give black the open e file to apply pressure on your backward e3 pawn. E3 is critical since if e3 falls then d4 and f4 become weak. Is the knight worth it? Another weakness to defend is really not what white needs right now. >White has a space advantage on the Kingside. Space is useful for quickly maneuvering pieces around and for cramping the opponent's ability to respond to threats. White isn't prepared to do anything in that space, all it has there is two knights, which don't really need space to operate anyway. Also, the overextended pawns are leaving weakly defended squares in their wake, like g4, h4, and h3. These squares all need to be defended by pieces now. >Certainly the better Pawn structure on the Queenside. Black is far better on the queenside. Black has a choice of files to attack down. Responding to pressure on the b file with b2b3 will just weaken c3, giving an attacking point towards e3. White's queenside rook and bishop are useless, white might as well just hand them to black. >White can slowly improve his position, and challenge the Open File. White has so many weak squares due to pawn moves that must be defended by pieces. This will make every piece move a major challenge. >Black, with 2 Isolated pawns on the a file, a serious endgame weakness >cannot be better! A good player will be able to build sufficient pressure against a combination of white's weaknesses and force it to give up material. White won't be able to respond in time. If the endgame is materially even, then black has squandered away its advantage. >Are you suggesting Black is winning? >[D]1r3rk1/p1qbbppp/p3p3/3p1nPP/3P1P2/4PNN1/PP3K2/R1BQ2R1 b - - 0 1 > >Lets play Chess. Sure, I'm not very good though :)
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