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2023/06/05 - "What's this: a POSITIONAL game?!"

2023/06/05 - "What's this: a POSITIONAL game?!"

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Black to move [White has just played 1. Bd2]:

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1. ... b3:

  • 2. Bxa5 bxa2  3. Bc3 Rb1+
  • 2. Rxa5 Rxa5  3. Bxa5 b2 [or 3. Bc3 Ra2]

Most of my games are hack and slash and sac affairs but this was a fairly quiet, positional game with a lot of jockeying for position in the middle.  I had a monster Knight [MK] on e4 and the only way for White to dislodge it [aside from sacing a Rook] was to use the Knight so I decided to trade my Bishop for it, reasoning that the MK would pay dividends.

I knew I had a lot of pressure on the Qside and was able to maintain and increase it without dropping any of my pawns.