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Kwam12

What do you guys think about the opening? Is it sound? Would you guys play it? What do you think the plans for both sides should be? Im trying to find a good black opening against 1.d4 and that one looks interesting and dynamic!

 

Michael-G

Don't try to combine Queen's Gambit accepted with Stonewall because  the weaknesses created will be hard to defend.Both openings are already difficult openings to play , trying to combine them can't be a good idea.

Dutchday

It's an incredibly sturdy opening, if you can play around the weakness of e5 with black. Of course 6...dxc4 is not good. You don't break the Stonewall as black unless maybe you can play c5 immediately. By then you probably already have a bishop on b7. I think you really defeated the point of the opening. Black cannot even play Ne4 anymore. Now, the Bf4 can be a target. Black can try to go Ne4, Qe8-h5 and maybe at some point g5 or h6+g5 for an all out attack.

White will just have to break up the centre or advance on the queenside, make a pawn exchange and come busting through there.

kapishreshta

This is simply inconsistent.

Kwam12

Yeah the diagram i posted isnt perfect, i just wanted to know if anyone had thoughts or had ever played anything similar. I do realize that ng5 is winning, and also white didnt have to move his light squared bishop off the a2-g8 diagnol. The only real weakness i see for black is the backwards e pawn. Am i missing other weaknesses? Is that one undefendable with correct play?

As for why i like dxc5....it gains time by attacking whites bishop with the b pawn after it takes the c pawn. Black still has solid control over d5 (and the light squares) even though it doesnt have a pawn there. Black can even put a knight there because black cant really chase it away effectively. If he takes it he will allow black to get a pawn back on d5, and white cant chase it away with the e pawn because black controls e4 with his f pawn.

I just liked the flexability this allows black. The fianchettoed bishop can come alive at any moment, blacks knights can become deadly, the rook on the f file has room to come to the 3rd row to pressure the white king etc. Is there any good that can come out of this or is it just bad?

ChessisGood

If you are going to play the Stonewall, do it through the dutch and don't play d5 immediately.

Michael-G

Test it before rejecting it , be carefull of e6 as it is a very serious weakness.