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danz1208
hello..im a begginer at chess and have many questions about it..
1.will you sacrifice your queen to get the 2 rooks of your opponent?
2.or the reverse...2 rooks-queen?..
my "everyday opponent alwalys doing this position..pls help me how to deal with it..thanks and more power..
DrawMaster
See this thread, danz: Rooks vs Queen.
thanks drawmaster..
mosqutip
First of all, don't allow your opponent to have both his pawns at d5 and e5 - a usual position is with a white pawn at e4 and a black at e5, but I can't see conceivably black owning both squares at the same time.
Also, the dragon defence (bishop surrounded by pawns and blocked by knight) is effective, but not usually on both sides, just one. A good counter to this style of play is to put pressure on the inside pawn (c7 or f7) and using center pawns, and control of the center with your knights and bishops to overwhelm one of the sides, either to gain material or threaten the king.
In endgame, the dragon pawn structure can be exploited by attacking the back rank pawns, which become backward and hard to defend. Stuffing a rook in your opponent's 7th row is one way to attack these pawns.
Finally, overwhelm the kingside in a dragon defence!
thank you so much mosqutip!!!!
5/26/2012 - Ragozin - Veresov, Moscow 1945
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