How To Develop The Opening Positionally (for Black)
Hello! Today I’ll tell you how to win the opening positionally for black. In the part for white you saw e4, because it’s the most common. Black also needs to defend the center. After e4,
Black can reply with: e5,
d5 (but we’ll skip that because white will develop better),
c6,
f5(pawn loss),
c5,
and other wing pawn moves, but we’ll focus on the center, without wing pawns.
and other wing pawn moves, but we’ll focus on the center, without wing pawns.
E5 is the best, because it blocks the e4 pawn from advancing and attacks the d5 square (so the d5 pawn can’t move there, because it will be captured. The queen would slow down white’s development.).
White will reply f3, because a pawn chain (you can find this in the soon-coming Chess Names Explained) will be formed. Black d6 also does that.
White moves d4, the pawn will be captured, and the queen will take control of the center, but will still be in a risk. This is the risk:
Black moved Nf6 to attack the e4 pawn (the knight will be attacked in the next move.). White will move dxe5,
because the pawn will attack the knight, and if the black pawn captures the white pawn, white can capture the black queen.
White will reply f3, because a pawn chain (you can find this in the soon-coming Chess Names Explained) will be formed. Black d6 also does that.
White moves d4, the pawn will be captured, and the queen will take control of the center, but will still be in a risk. This is the risk:
Black moved Nf6 to attack the e4 pawn (the knight will be attacked in the next move.). White will move dxe5,
because the pawn will attack the knight, and if the black pawn captures the white pawn, white can capture the black queen.
Black moves Nh5. White captures with exd6.
Black can finally capture cxd6. If the white queen captured the d6 black pawn, it would be captured by the black queen. White moves Nh3 to prepare for Bg5 that will attack the queen. Black moves f6 so Bg5 is useless.
This is white’s Bg5 plan:
Black can:
This shows how one mistake can lose the game.
