Here is a recent game I played, I'm just a beginner so you can tell I made a lot of mistakes. But b3 seems to be a fun opening for me (I've been playing English as white for the past 4 months I've started chess). Would you say it still gives white an advantage? And any tips on better opening order I could improve on. Annotated game with ~1150 ELO reasoning lol
What do you think of 1.b3 2.e3 (Nimzo-Larsen attack?)
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5.c4 gives black a terrible weakness on the central light squares, and it's very much unpleasant to play that structure as black.
17.Na4?? b5 18.Nc4 bxc4 19.Ne6 keeps you in the game still, black has quite the acceptable position here since you blundered some material, but simpler would have been 17.f4, plant a knight on e5, and play normal strengthening moves since black has no counterplay.
Other than that, well played.
The opening is pretty interesting if you ask me, white gives black equality right away, but the play is different from other openings, and youll learn more stuff.
InfiniteFlash wrote:
5.c4 gives black a terrible weakness on the central light squares, and it's very much unpleasant to play that structure as black.
17.Na4?? b5 18.Nc4 bxc4 19.Ne6 keeps you in the game still, black has quite the acceptable position here since you blundered some material, but simpler would have been 17.f4, plant a knight on e5, and play normal strengthening moves since black has no counterplay.
Other than that, well played.
The opening is pretty interesting if you ask me, white gives black equality right away, but the play is different from other openings, and youll learn more stuff.
Wow thanks, didnt see those moves, especially the pawn fork. Yeah the f4 + knight outpost is a solid plan, I haven't really gotten to the stage of longterm planning, I just look at every half move as a new tactics trainer problem lol one step at a time though!