Blog Review

Hello! I eagerly want to improve my blogs. So if anyone can give me review on how I can improve, I would really appreciate it.

My latest blog link: https://www.chess.com/blog/Fayez58/beat-the-evans-gambit

Talking to @ChessPawn912

Maybe @ChessPawn921 ?

He's already doing it in another club, I think we can all give our opinion. I will check it later!

First idea, without reading the post, is: did you write something unique, or something well known in a unique way?

Any kind of feedback is appreciated from anyone

In the blog, I tried to show a easy system against the Evan's Gambit. Was it unique? No. Obviously I am not a strong enough grandmaster to invent some crazy novelty. However, when you try to search how to play against the Evan's Gambit, you will see almost no youtube video or blog. And most of the few that has give Ba5 as a suggestion. However, I tried to give a much simpler system that I over the years have played and have a great success. The thing is that I tried to give a system instead of line and some explanation. It is not something I knew, anyone can see that with stockfish. But I felt there is a lack of contents showing a system to easily equalize for lower rated players.

That's who I ment. 

I recall a miniature in a Robert Ramirez video with the Evan's gambit, I will see if I can find it!

About videos, there is a trick, get the position, make a capture of the screen, and submit to chessify app. You should find videos with the position.

I use the trick to find games from books, with the hope they are explained move by move.

Your idea seems nice and interesting, I will dive in the diagrams and text of your blog when I have a bit more time! If the idea of sharing a solid and easy system is clearly explained also in the blog or in the post, well done!

At Fayez58

I did review your blog, and I liked the way you outlined it. It has a logical sequence. I also played through all the sections the first time I did so for any blog. However, I felt I should do so if I were to provide feedback. 

I liked your comments. I assume that everything is your analysis, but if there are some insights you integrated from others or from reviewing with stockfish (or other programs), please reference them. When I do a game analysis, I get ideas from multiple sources.

I did notice that your focus was on the advantages of black in the position; it might be interesting to gain more information on the benefits of white if certain moves are played, i.e., what not play if you are black. Nearly every opening has such moves. 

You mentioned the advantage of the Bishop pair. This advantage often depends on the position at the cost at which it is obtained. So one of the discussion or points you might want to add is why the Bishop pair is essential in the Evan's gambit.

An aside: there was a famous chess player who wanted the Bishop pair at any cost; his opponents made him pay such a high price that he lost. 

Other suggestions:

As I mentioned, I like your practice puzzles; however, I would add that the goal is to play the Evan's gambit. While this seems to be understood given the blog, you have some people like me who, when asked what they would play after e4, would play c5 as that is what I would play in that position. Adding this information would make it more accessible to the "normal" reader and the hyper-literal reader like myself.  

Thank you for sharing your blog with us. 

I am tired, got a couple of beers and cannot really follow, but couldn't anyway.

If the target is a low rated player, the explanations should probably be more verbal than with diagrams. I don't know what would work best.

I will check it again with a clearer mind, I swear!

Thanks for the review. So let me respond paragraph by paragraph.

1. Thanks for the positivity.

2. The lines are not given from me. All the opening theories are already known and have been played before. It is just that they are not that much popular as the main line. About the game analysis, I tried to make up a explanation for each move from my own experience. However, my explanation might be wrong as I am not that of a strong player.

3. If you see the blog, in the entire blog, I tried to show you two moves, Be7 and Na5, and that's it. That means after that any normal developing move is ok and that is not the concern of the opening. If I tried to explain those moves in details too, that would only make it too much complex. In fact, when people study an opening, often they make a common mistake of seeing it from opposite color. For example, imagine you are studying Sicilian defense for black. And many player instead of just focusing on particular variation, studies from all the variations. As a result, they became disappointed and stop studying any line after a while.

4. Bishop pair is good, but not a big of an advantage, Also, I said that from a general perspective. If you wanna know why bishop pair is good, I would really recommend to read "How to reassess your chess". But this topic is not related to the main blog and is a complex topic of its own.

5. If you see from the introduction, I clearly shows how the position is reached. So if you do not play e5, the blog is not for you. I felt that anyone would understand from that thing. Also I wanna add, if you play c5, you should not look too much at theories of other lines as it just makes the game more complex.