The four move checkmate does it only 1 way to block?
this what I want to know is if there is another way of blocking it?
than that?
4 move checkmate is there only 1 block way
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why does white have 3 bishops
Well... my favorite way of preventing 4-move checkmate is
Then, if your opponent doesn't move his queen, you can play Nf6 and start kicking the queen around. You opponent will waste some moves moving his queen, and during that time you can move your queen out of the way of your dark square bishop and start developing normally.
The black's F7 pawn is really yummy.
May 23, 2016
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Put again that animation about how you view the f7 pawn of the opponent...
May 23, 2016
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<Macer75> I thought that the more usual way of fending off that checkmate was, from your beginning, with 3...g6, and on 4. Qf3, ...Nf6.
Interestingly, I'm now looking at a database in which BLACK has more wins from that position than white has (the average BLACK elo is about equal to the average WHITE elo from that position). I suppose that it's still about equal, but really, what is the queen doing on f3...
solskytz wrote:
Put again that animation about how you view the f7 pawn of the opponent...
LOL ! HERE:
May 23, 2016
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I remembered the "yummy" from the GIF, you see...
A very useful pattern to remember
solskytz wrote:
<Macer75> I thought that the more usual way of fending off that checkmate was, from your beginning, with 3...g6, and on 4. Qf3, ...Nf6.
Interestingly, I'm now looking at a database in which BLACK has more wins from that position than white has (the average BLACK elo is about equal to the average WHITE elo from that position). I suppose that it's still about equal, but really, what is the queen doing on f3...
I'm not sure which is more common, but I don't play 3. ... g6 because I'm planning on castling on that side, and if I move the g pawn I have to fianchetto the bishop (which probably isn't bad, but I'm just not used to playing that way).