Help needed - Space creation - Chess Forums

Paspov

Jan 18, 2015

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#1

I need help with finding a chapter/ article/ video on moving pawns well to create space. *Space creation* is the keyword. I would like to learn about creating space from locked/ closed positions.

I am posting a sample game here, but I am seeing this same kind of pattern repeating in my games where I am getting cramped.

I am an upcoming youth player in the 1400 USCF range. I am posting a USCF OTB game, I played this below game as black and lost. Obviously, I cramped myself to a losing position. As white pushed his pawns forward, I had to push the pieces back.

I know common sense (move like c6) doesn't prevail in games sometimes. But, I am generally looking for a resource for "space creation" as I outlined above.

Thanks so much.

MajorGiggles

Jan 18, 2015

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#2

Without analysing too deeply,

7. ... f5

is probably what I would play instead of 7. ... Nf6.

If he tries 8. Qh5+, then 8. ... g6

THEN eventually Nf6 and O-O-O

Or, alternatively, rather than playing 9. O-O, you could play d5, which stops his c4 being so cramping.

I don't understand why you played 12. Bf8, it seems both a waste of tempo and self-cramping.

Sqod

Jan 18, 2015

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#3

I think MajorGiggles' suggestion of 7...f5 is quite good. I hadn't noticed that one. You would have had a good spot for your KN then.

Also, how about an immediate 3...d5 instead of 3...d6, or at least play ...d5 a little later on (e.g., 10...d5)? I don't know Bird's Opening (or was that a Stonewall?) or if it's closer to a QP opening or a KP opening, but Black is said to equalize in a KP opening as soon as he can safely play ...d5, which you never did. In fact, your voluntary withdrawal of three different pieces looks almost like a joke. It's true your QN was trapped, but that shows partly that you went wrong somewhere in the opening.

Also, since your KB is badly hemmed in by your pawn at d6, you could try fianchettoing it to g7.

Paspov

Jan 18, 2015

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#4

Thanks, MajorGiggles and Sqod. But, I wasn't looking at this game for analysis, sorry to tell you. I was quoting this as an example to get help on resources....

Books? Any article? etc

p.s: MajorGiggles, My brother lives in Hemel Hempstead as well, for the last 10 years......

Sqod

Jan 18, 2015

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#5

Paspov wrote:

I was quoting this as an example to get help on resources....

Yes, I know. I should have mentioned that I've never heard of any such book. In fact, I can't even think of a chapter or section in any book I've seen that talks about that subject, other than that attacking a pawn chain at its base is preferable to attacking it at its foremost pawn, or in conjunction with the French Defense, or that ...d5 goal. That fact alone makes me wonder if the subject is normally ignored because the opening should already take care of such problems, or at least opening principles like gaining space. Does anybody know?