petrosianpupil wrote:
Im interested in playing the queen exchange line of the philidor if black gives me the chance. All the games in this thread seem to suggest 6 Bc4 which i think is inferior to Nf3 as it is a move forcing line. Has anyone got much experience or views on this?
There is absolutely nothing wrong in playing 6.Bc4, it force black to play 6...Be6 and double e-pawns; white has the better chances to win not black. Black has zero chance for a win and best black can do is a draw, not very inspiring for black. This type of setup for black is call the lazy setup, I don't want to study and want answer to all white replies without any work. I see it my chess club opening system that require little work and hoping it will answer how to play the black side without any opening studying. It doesn't work and the op lack of understanding of Philidor is apparent, he did not realize that he can put pressure on e4-pawn, if he study Nimzovitch's games he would know that. Lack of study show in otb games, there no data games base, there is no blitzing out your moves to play on the clock, that can be a disaster. I saw a otb game with the op against his opponent and both are rated 1800 fide, the sloppiness in their play and no calculation at all, his opponent just sacrifice with no compensation and the op give back all the material and nearly lost; it was one the worst to display of player rated over 1800 fide, all blunders and the last to make blunder wins. Yep, otb game must have chess knowledge and you better calculate accurate, even lines that seem risky. OP has no confidence and he needs to ask can you analyze my game, just like asking for free information, I don't want to study opening but give me all the lines so I don't have to buy a chess book. Go get a opening and middlegame book, don't be lazy asking players to help you for free, if you lack the talent then pay for lessons.
I didn't say that you were, but that you could if you wanted to so that I could know what I do wrong.
See now I learned that I am supposed to give pressure on the e-file when I do exd4. (Re8 and Nc5)
Also I learned the b6 Ba6 idea after Ne4, if I chose to do that
Oh man
Thats the spirit Skotheim2 3...exd4 Wooooo Hooooo
Take a journey into the Exchange Variation buddy.
You know you want too.
Check it out.
This was a game I played a few days ago.
Not of the highest quality but it was very nice.
Fell for the simple tactic.
Oh it was heart breaking.
Here is another game I played.
It is not the normal Exchange Variation line.
I think my opponent played a few strange moves.
However, It still looks like a nice game.
I also used the E file pressure which ended up causing my opponent to just give up the pawn.