Author: Martin
Date: 06:56:26 02/07/00
On February 05, 2000 at 11:03:38, Rich Shippy wrote: >I am sorry, but I am new to this forum. I did find out from this site that >chesslab.com is awesome. I have used it in the last day to help me with a >difficult position I get into with the Dragon. >Sorry once again. No problem, Rich. I'm also new here and am not understanding everything on this board either. But a few people (including me) were just asking themselves, why you weren't reacting to our posts. Your reply which I quote below gives an answer to this question, thanks. On February 05, 2000 at 22:03:28, Tina Long wrote: >On February 05, 2000 at 10:58:50, Rich Shippy wrote: > >>I have read some excellent replys to my questions. I was not sure how to reply >>to be quite honest. I thought post followup was to modify a message you already >>posted. Your message is well taken and I will reply to each of the helpful >>answers I received. Sorry for looking inconsiderate. I did pick up a book on >>the Benko Gambit. It is very interesting to me. I have definetly received >>helpful feedback. I still do not know what the stonewall sequence of moves is. >>I looking in Nunn's Chess openings. I will check on chesslab.com. Great >>computer web site by the way. I loved it. > >Hi Rich, >I withdraw my enquiry. >It was your politeness that put me off. > >You are lucky to be researching openings at a time when ChessLab is available. > >A site you may find interesting is > >http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic.html > >While you have already found ChessLab where there are lots (millions?) of games, >to develope your own opening database, at TWIC you can pickup each week, the >games of THAT week, to keep your opening repitour (sp?) up to date. > >All the best to you, >Tina Long Yes, the chesscenter site is a very famous and good one, visiting it is never a mistake. Nonetheless I'd say it's also important to read good books about your openings, 'cos I don't know a better way to get information about the usual plans and ideas (since our bits and bytes friends aren't able to help us here either... unfortunately). Rich, you already may have found out that the Stonewall is a variation of the Dutch opening (1 d4 f5). More precisely it refers to the pawn structure c6-d5-e6-f5, which somewhat looks like a wall of stones. The basic idea is to keep the centre solid in order to be able to become active on the wings, particularly to start a kingside attack. So although black's strategy is simple, there are drawbacks (as in every opening...). Let me just mention two of 'em: in most cases the bishop on c8 will remain a bad one and the dark squares are weak. Therefore white's task is to make use of those dark squares (i.e. e5) and to break black's dominance on the white ones (particularly e4). So he will fianchetto his f1 bishop and try to play e4 whenever possible. Of course black's kingside attack has to be stopped as well. Btw, there are people (I think twas Kramnik) having the opinion that the square h3 is better than f3 for the Ng1 (it can go to f4 and d3 or support the e4 advance on f2). So you may prefer to delay f5 and play the other pawns first. Roughly speaking you have got an anti-positional setup and get attacking chances as a reward. The good news is that you don't need to give up a pawn as in the Benkö Gambit... ;-) Good luck whatever you choose, Martin
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