General strategic factors(weakened king position 1)

Submitted by hancock on Sat, 05/09/2009 at 9:48am.

A single glance at the position is enough for u to come to a conclusion :white is losing.his castled position has been weakened by h2-h3 and what is most important is that all Blacks piece are taking part in the attack.Thebishop on b7has a clear diagonal;themajor pieces have two open files.for all these minus point,white has just one pawn

the game continuation was1Rad1 e5!2Kd5 Rxh3("demolishesthe last fortification protecting the enemy king"-alekhine)3Qd2 Bxd5 4cxd5 e4 5d6 exf3 6Rxf3 Rxf3 7 dxe7 Qe7 and white resigned.

The kings [position after castling long is some what weaker than castling short,asthe a7 pawn(on whiteside the a2 pawn)is left un protectedand the king is further frm the corner-so opportunities may arise for attacking it from 2 directions.hence to make the kings shelter more secure,youhave to make an aditional move Kc8 to Kb8.the weakening moves a7-a6 and b7-b6 have the same draw backs as the equivalent move after king side castling.if the position is weakened by c7 c6,whitte has opportunities to cut the black king off frm the corner (by Bf4)and to make use of vulnerable b6 square

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by gambit156 - 10 days ago
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gud 1

by hancock - 5 months ago
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1......... Qxe5 Bd6 2 QXQ Rxg7 3(now u have to save the Knight for eg u play Nd5 Rxh3 and the kings position is more weakened after this the game will be opened white wuld have a knight pair and black wuld have a bishop pair which gives black a huge advantage