hello cpow24 ur question was when to play h3 or a3 to prevent a bishop coming there to pin your knight. the answer is hard to give because its always situational. the usual rule is you ONLY play them if you have to. for example if you have a stable center which is protected by your knight on f3 you might need to play h3 in order to cover the g4 square because otherwise if the defender of your center, the knight f3 gets eliminated your whole center may fall apart.
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nice brah ....youre always a master:)
no brah... i am patzer brah. you are doing alright in our game brah, i do have the bishops pair though brah.
lol...for me your a gm:)
u said your not a master, then why teach?Wouldnt u possibly misteach your students?
Yes obviously i am no master i am low fide. You dont need to listen my advice brah if u want to win 17 games in a row you should listen though.
IamNoMaster wrote:
lofina in your game after black played 25... e5 its important that you follow up with the immediate f4.
*will relook, thx Brahsen
have you looked at Pal Benno's puzzle in #38
Jengaias so you dont consider all the answers i gave to questions on previous pages as advice and call that nonsense? fine, then maybe you should visit another thread. Just saying.
wait i will look at it now lofina!
How is it even possible that you are 2200 blitz yet only 789 fide? OH RIGHT IT'S NOT POSSIBLE.
IamNoMaster wrote: wait i will look at it now lofina!
*my Fritz 12(old) proposed a draw? looked into that Hungarian site; found several that were beyond Engine usage - which is definitely unique,
are there seriously still people that think I am 789 fide? lol...
lofina let me post your position again
let me share with you my thoughts about this interesting position. obviously the motif of this puzzle is the mate on a7 with bishop and rook. blacks queen constantly has to cover the a7 square because of that. blacks king cant move and he also has no other piece to move so he would have to move the queen which leads to some kind of zugzwang motifs. now we have to think of a move here for white. i think white only can move the bishop here and it has to be a bishop move on the a7-g1 diagonal. why? because if white moves his king he is gonna lose material to a queen check. if he moves his rook he will either allow Qh1 check or remove the rook from the mating threat on a7. to keep this mating threat intact white has to make a move with his bishop. I would say Bishop to d4 because on that square the bishop also aims to g7 so that after a queen check on the g file white can move the rook to g7 in between. so after Bd4 blacks only move is Qb8 check. after this I go Kh1. blacks only move now is Qa8 check. after that I go to g1. if black plays Qg8 check now i can play Rg7 to block the check. so again the line till now goes 1.Bd4 Qb8+ 2.Kh1 Qa8+ 3.Kg1 Qg8+ 4. Rg7 Qa8 . now my thought is i want blacks queen to be on b8. because if blacks queen was on b8 white can play rook check on the 6th row and if Kb7 Rb6 would win the queen and if Ka5 Bb6+ followed by Bc7+ would win the queen too. so after 4...Qa8 5.Bf2 looks good. now black has to play Qb8 (i dont see another move) and after Rg6 white will win the queen. correct me if i made any mistakes, i could well be wrong. regards.
excuse me i made a very stupid mistake at the end of my line. i will rethink it.
http://www.magyarsakkszerzok.hu/study.htm
click on the above, it's a headache for me; it's more likely that players of your playing level might have fun
yes! obviously the motif of this puzzle is the mate on a7 with bishop and rook.
yes! black's queen constantly has to cover the a7 square because of that.
yes! black's king cant move and he also has no other piece to move so he would have to move the queen which leads to some kind of zugzwang motifs.
yes! it has to be a bishop move on the a7-g1 diagonal.
well explained! thx....took me forever to understand the zugzwang here and there
damn i am so close to the solution but there is some little thing i am not seeing... :s annoying. i will try again later i guess. am in France now.
lofina in your game after black played 25... e5 its important that you follow up with the immediate f4.