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How to deal with very very closed positions
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Apr 12, 2014
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Yeah I agree Bradley, playing black it can be difficult to avoid a closed position. Have you done computers analysis on your games?
It was a blitz game?
it was 30 minutes, but he never took long to make a move, i took slightly longer. I play 30 minutes because i run out of time all the time if i play like 10 minute ones. I'll try the computer analysis on it and see what it says
In blitz, anybody who plays in such that way probably is aiming to clean your clock. But if you have enough time, you must be careful about the possible pawn advances, that can break the chains and clean the way for the pieces. In a closed position, one rupture at time may change things instantanely. You must take your time to prepare/avoid them.
If the position is perfectly closed, and there are no pawn breaks, it's very often a draw (even if the material isn't equal).
It is typical at my level that players will create a long line of pawns, and instead of trading pawns they will typically just advance the pawn ahead to meet your pawn, creating this huge wall of pawns in the centre of the board in a very restricted position where pawns cant trade with each other, and the only way through seems like to sacrifice pieces, or wait until he blunders a piece (or i do)
there's an example of incredibly boring games that i get a million of. you try to get him to trade pawns and he declines every single time, and then you blunder a piece and resign or he blunders a piece and resigns. That's 70-80% of my games. My pieces can't breath or move, its so boring.
Its a problem especially as black, as white i just play gambit lines and have this problem much less, but i can never do anything like the najdorf because my opponents will NEVER play the sicilian lines, they make weird moves that i dont know how to answer.