Positional play exercise (FOURTEEN questions) (repost - click this one)

why did you play  28. qe6

doesnt black want to play qd7 so it allows ne6 the "active blockader"

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If you remember my answer to the one with six questions, you know that this'll take a while to read with 14 questions now. Be warned. (TL;DR: I make stupid plans. There. Thirty minutes of your life saved.)

1. White was a serious space advantage in the center, so white should base his play around strengthening it.

2. The pros of this move is that I'd say that suicide is a mercy for that knight, it's so bad. The cons comes from a common saying in chess (this is a paraphrase): "Whenever a pawn moves, it always creates weaknesses behind it." Of course, this can't be applied to a K+P VS K endgame, but it's still true. White's weakest square in this position is f3 and it can be exploited for an outpost later on by rerouting the knight to a position where they can get to the outpost there in one move. There was a super instructive game from the beast Praggnanandha in the World Cup where he just obliterated his super GM opponent through a weak square, but this is a school computer and Chessgames.com is blocked, so you'll have to find it yourself.

3. The potential in each piece for black is quite good. Black's knights can fight for the outpost on f6 which is still a possibility, the light-square bishop can bait white into either further restricting his own light square bishop, the dark-square bishop can go reroute itself to b6 where it targets the weak d4 pawn, and even black's queen can do something by punishing white for not moving his dark-square bishop with Qb6. White's potential? It's a completely different ball park. White's knights can't do anything of value except maybe go to c5, which can easily be prevented with b6. Both of white's bishops are blocked in. Basically, black is way better in terms of piece potential.

4. Black's plan is to play e6 then c5 and undermine white's center, which was pretty weak this whole time.

5. In Caro-like structures, e6 generally loses the game for black. But that's because white found a way to play it in the opening where piece activity is quite potent. Seeing as this is a middlegame, and a pretty closed one too, I believe that it just loses a pawn.

6. The point of the fianchetto was to get the bishop on g7, but seeing as the knight ended up on g7 before the bishop, it had to be delayed for quite some time. In fact, it took so long, that in the end, it was better to get the bishop to the square it's on now, e7.

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7. No, it's not. In fact, it's a pretty darn bad move. After 17...a5, black is going to win a pawn and/or bishop activity.

8. Here, I like 19... axb4 20. cxb4 b5. The point of this variation is to stop white form playing b5 himself, and then we win a pawn after the previously impossible move Na6 because of b5.

9. Black didn't play the above variation, so he suffered.  Here, white needs only to push the A pawn to cause serious havoc. Once white's pawn gets to the golden square a6, here's what happens after each piece takes.

Pawn: Black's C pawn is hanging and his newly formed A pawn is already in serious pressure.

Knight: White plays Bb4 and black resigns because of the skewer. And if the bishop exchange were to occur, then white doubles his rooks and black resigns.

Rook: After the rook exchange, black's pawn is hanging again.

10. The h4 pawn is hanging. After we win it, we win the rest of the pawn chain.

11. I thought this was a positional play exercise! Anyway, there are so many moves that black wants to play, so finding the exact right one is challenging. Please make the hint more specific. Anyway, I think that it's c5 because then the C file closes off after dxc5 Qxe5, and we get tempo on the bishop with ideas of d4 and stacking the rooks on the C file to win the C pawn.

12. This is tricky. I believe that the move here is Qf5, targeting the pawn and the knight, then after Nd3, which is forced, the a8 rook comes in to defend our pawn.

13. Two candidate moves are Qf5 and Qb5. Qf5 has the same ideas while Qb5 wins white's pawn.

14. We move the bishop to h8, adding additional protection to the pawn once it gets to b2.

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8. 19. axb4 20. cxb4 b5 21. a5 na4 with pressure on the b4 pawn

9. I would say white is better, black's pieces are misplaced and has no remaining pawn breaks besides c5 which is completely shut down, and b5, which would be dumb (or maybe it isn't??)

10. qe6 would be better as it prevents e6 from white himself, fxe6, qxg6 with a good position

11. I have no clue, sorry

12. rxa4, rxa4, qxa4, qxd5, and bf8 is my line

13. pshhhhhh, qf5?

14. I'd play bb8 and try to plop it on a7

15. qa3 with a pin or something, d4 coming next if it remains on that file with the gaining of a piece

lol i couldnt see anything else

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