The thing I would do in that position was to kick the knight why my e pawn, centralize the pawns and be careful of dark squared bishop, then shift middle game stuff and all my pieces towards the kings side since the opponent is most likely to castle king side.
Queen's Gambit Declined - Martial Defense
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chessmicky wrote:
It's "Marshall," not "Martial" The variation is named after Grandmaster Frank J. Marshall, who was U.S. Champion from 1909 to 1936 and came up with many opening ideas, some great and some not so great
Thanks for the clarification.
I'd say that the Marshall Defense was one of his not-so-great opening ideas. :P
jackfast your line is less accurate. The optimal move order is Nf3 before e4, because otherwise black can play e5 in between, which is equivocal.
Kicking the knight back with e4 after Nf3 is the right way to play. This opening is really an exercise in control/attacking play.
Just to add about Uhoh's comment, black plays e5 in between but he can't with jack's line, after 4.e4 Nb6 Nf3 too late for e5.
So Black has to move Nd5 at f6, hitting e4, and then if 4.e4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5! and black fights.
On 4...Nf6 5.e5 is possible but then Nd5 and not sure e5 helped white so much...
About Kenbrace's line with 4.Nf3 e6 (Bf5 5.Qb3!), white will develop pieces easily, one example :
All this is not forced of course, but i just gave an example of what happens if black is careless, and really, happens very frequently when opp plays this defence...
The marshal defence proper is:
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I've been playing chess with a brother of mine quite a lot lately and he typically uses the martial defense against my queen's gambit opening. He's not a very strong player. I've learned a little bit about how to take advantage of this defense but I've run into a variation that I'm completely sure how to attack.
Normally my brother would probably just pull out his other knight or the bishop, in which case I could quickly take advantage of the situation and be up a minor piece. Something along these lines...
But I'm not completely sure how to attack if black choses the e6 move. My instinct is to attack the queen with my bishop, supported by the knight. But then black can simply defend by pulling out his f-bishop. After that it's somewhat of an even game. That's usually how it turns out in my experiments anyway. So what would be the best move after e6? Is there still a way to take advantage of black's position?