Training room #1

Well for those of you who are up to a little bit of training, this is the place where I will put some chess diagrams to put our brain cells to work and to train together as a team. I hope you will like it. I am not a master, of course, so forgive me the occasional mistake, but I will take the materials from high-quality sources that I used in my real world's club trianing sessions. So the first one I took from master Drazen Marovic's works and I will later tell you from which game the position originates. So here it goes:

Ok, so there are numerous tactic trainer content on chess sites like this. There is puzzles section, puzzle rush etc. - so I don't want to put materials that are redundant to that. I wanted to start with something that is not present in the current chess.com and that is position evaluation exercise. So now I invite you all to discuss this position on following grounds:

1) Who stands better? White or Black?

2) Which pieces on the board stand out as excellent, which are bad ones?

3) Let us get into the position from White's perspective - what would be the best strategic plan for White?

I hope you like it, have fun!

Thank You @Volkov87 for this interesting puzzle. Trying to anwer your questions, I dare say...

1) Black has a very important material advantage, his king is protected and the control of the center is not bad. White, although has a more dynamic position at that moment, is somewhat worse. So I dare say that black  stands better.

2) Well, the white King is too exposed but the worst piece -to me- is the black Bishop on e7. It is blocked and passive. Excellent for me there are no pieces here, although the black Queen on c4 is the best.

3) It would be interesting to attack the kingside, trying to open the castling and try a better control of the center. So I would move the white rook to f3 and then continue attacking with pawns, harassing the knight on f6 and of course the other white rook to d1.

Waiting for your comments to learn. 

Greetings

I think it is a very unbalanced position. Black even has two queens who are very easy to maneuver. The rest of the pieces are fairly balanced. With a superiority of quality pieces I prefer not to change the knight by changing the bishop instead. In fact, the queen can also function as a bishop. Bringing the knight on the king's side you can easily attack with the two ladies. Obviously white must close the initiative of black and this seems difficult to me because black is exposed on column F

Thank you for pointing out - on e8 is a rook and not a queen. I don't know how it slipped, it was a faulty position setup from my side. My apologies, this is a bit new to me. It would be naive of me to ask a strategic evaluation of position with two queens versus one. I updated the position so it should be a correct one now.

Well it's been some time - the position is from the game Smyslov - Rudakovsky. According to textbook commentary, altough materialy white and black are in balance, the position is strategically in White's favor - Black has a weak square d5 with a bacward pawn on d6 representing a weakness. The position's dynamics are such that this is not a great weakness if Black's pieces can achieve counterplay - but White has the chance to eliminate the only Black defender of d5 square with

16. Bxf6!

and after 16.... Bxf6 and 17. Nd5  The white knight becomes the ruler of the board, or the so called "eternal knight" since the f6 bishop can not fight it. To make matters worse for Black, the bishop is also limited by its own pawns.

The game went on for only 11 more moves until White won the day, and it can be found and seen here:

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1125461

I hope the position was interesting (despite my error in initial position setup). You can express your wishes for further materials