Openings and improvement

happyfanatic · 2009-08-24T19:25:53-07:00

So, I just finished up an otb tournament in my state and had horrible results. My first round I drew an 1800 player, with ours being the last game to finish because he stubbornly played out the drawn position, then lost to 2 1600+ guys and a 900 (who in reality plays like a 1400+ player

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anon166

Sep 8, 2009

#21

Conquiscador wrote:

I checked the other thread and the line given is

1.b4 c6 2.Bb2 Qb6 3.a3 a5 4.c4

What about 4...e6 threatening to win a pawn?

5c5-and-white-is-ok.but-4...ab4-wins-a-pawn.of-course-2c4-improves-white.

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