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TO FIANCHETTO or Not FIANCHETTO THAT IS THE QUESTION
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If you want to fiancetto, and you have already moved the b or g pawn, you should finish it off ASAP. Otherwise, positions may change, rendering your fiancetto useless or impossible and now you just weakened your pawn structure.
Aug 6, 2011
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frrixz wrote:
If you want to fiancetto, and you have already moved the b or g pawn, you should finish it off ASAP. Otherwise, positions may change, rendering your fiancetto useless or impossible and now you just weakened your pawn structure.
I really am going to try and prac. this on the board at home and then try it out on line. All of the comments have been so kind and on topic I appreciate it all!
It's good to know the term but if I were you I wouldn't worry about this too much. there are more important things to learn if you want to improve your game.
Fianchetto is really just one way of developping the bishop and whether it makes sense depends on the position (in particular whether the fianchettoed bishop is active on the long diagonal). In reply just concentrate finding the best (most active) places for your own pieces. It's also worth mentioning that if one, say, has already moved the e-pawn (for example by opening with 1. e4) but not the g-pawn then fianchettoing takes two moves (g3+Bg2) whereas moving the bishop out via f1-a6 diagonal only takes one. Therefore in 1. e4 opening it's relatively rare (although not totally unheard of
) for white to fianchetto this bishop.
Here's the start of a game I played last night at my club.
I always put my king bishop on g2/g7 and this kind of tactic appears again and again.
That would have been much stronger (and not an instant knockout), but I think white has a comfortable lead in development with 7.Nc3. Anyway, the purpose was to show what can happen when one isn't paying attention to the threats created (the fianchetto in particular).