nice

Hi all,

There wasn't anything wrong with 22.gxh3 (taking the bishop right away instead of 22.Nf3). The bishop is toast anyways, since after 22.Nf3, White is threatening 23.Bxe5+, a discovered check that hits Black's queen on c5. Thus, both the knight and bishop will be going.

After 22.gxh3, White is up a piece and will likely (but not immediately) add a second piece after getting the knight on e5. In this case, all roads do lead to Rome ...

Cheers,

Vinay

very instructive, thanks for the video.

Edit: It was extremely helpful to have the article in one single pgn at the end. E.g. I saved it into google docs, under my "stonewall pawn structure" folder and I guess other users may want to archive articles related to pawn structures they meet.

 By doing this whenever I want to read-up on stonewall I won't have to search every site I am subscribed to and look at all articles to spot a stonewall article. This is usually the case as I forget where I read each bit of information. I would be delighted to see authors also implement the "entire game into one viewer" idea!

TLDR: great article, very instructive and on top of that brilliant idea to provide a pgn with the article content!

Thanks for the article! Here's the Stonewall I use as learned from Chess for Dummies. Defending is pretty easy, attacking is another matter. I'm a beginner, so any attacking principles after a Stonewall opening would be most appreciated. I mostly use the Stonewall when playing White, and my first move is d4, which is a nice change from e4.  

Interesting that you had to burn so much clock time, perhaps especially on moves 9, 11, and 12.  I guess that is what happens when you get an opening surprise.

An inspirational game.  I had never seen the stonewall before; it looked like my worst nightmare but you brought it down.

Bhattering ram :p

Very interesting, I learned a lot!

Nice game, but depressing for me, as I play the Stonewall, getting into it via 1. d4...d5 like your unfortunate opponent.

ggthx

nice annotations, very instructive!!

Neat! That was cool thinking and a good attack!

thx !!

"Desperation." lol. I'm curious as to what would happen if you were to slice the bishop.

Thank you so much, you truly are the best chess player in the world.

Excellent article, thank you

Interesting line.

good

Very practical! Thanks a mountain!