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Shuffleking74
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
Yeah I rushed thru those moves knowing, gosh, I won again! Quickly writing down on the scoresheet and finishing him off!
IM pfren
It's not just that the knight is badly placed on d7 (blocking the light squared bishop which is now even more passive) but you also exchange your "good" bishop for the "bad" white one. You survived this game because your opponent was rather generous, and sacrificed a piece for very little.
Tell me how the bishop is getting out anyway with a pawn on e6.
Like in another fifty-two thousand times in the past.
One way is via d7 and b5 (with the aid of ...Qb6 or ...a6, or via ...b6 and ...Ba6 (with the knight still on b8).
The knight on d7 obstructs both plans, plus it does not pressure white's soft spot at all (that spot is the basis of the pawn chain, namely d4 after an eventual pawn exchange on d4).
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.
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
Hey thanks 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
Yes, now it is in Ridgewood.
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