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3rd Win


  • 5 months ago · Quote · #1

    Shuffleking74

  • 5 months ago · Quote · #2

    paulgottlieb

    Interesting game, congratulations on your win. But I'm not too crazy about your 3...Nd7. As I understand the Advance Variation, your aim is to excert maximum pressure on White's d-pawn, and tie him down to its defense. The usual way to do that is by playing 3....c5 followed quickly by Nc6 and Qb6

    20.Nxc4 was a huge mistake and you took advantage of it very efficiently. You played the whole last part of the game very energetically

  • 5 months ago · Quote · #3

    Shuffleking74

    Yeah I rushed thru those moves knowing, gosh, I won again! Quickly writing down on the scoresheet and finishing him off!

  • 5 months ago · Quote · #5

    Shuffleking74

    Tell me how the bishop is getting out anyway with a pawn on e6.

  • 5 months ago · Quote · #7

    Shuffleking74

    True. Yeah having it b7 really doesn't do much. I just got lucky with getting my pawn to capture and give it scope. Ok, thank you for the advice. Will remember it next time.

  • 5 months ago · Quote · #8

    paulgottlieb

    Well, Black's white-squared Bishop is famously his problem piece in the French, and any time you find a good development for it, you're probably winning. 

    It might be worth going over some grandmaster games (wins by Black!) to see how the greats handle that problem. You could also look at some wins by White so that you can experience the nightmare of being on the wrong end of a "knight versus bad bishop" endgame

  • 5 months ago · Quote · #9

    Shuffleking74

    Hey thanks paulgottlieb.

  • 5 months ago · Quote · #10

    paulgottlieb

    By the way, shuffleking, do you play at the Dumont Chess Club? I used to play there back in the 90's when I worked in North Jersey

  • 5 months ago · Quote · #11

    Shuffleking74

    Yes, now it is in Ridgewood.


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