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Avatar of Shailen24

1 vote for d3.

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coon74 wrote:

As said above, I won't mind this move either. Let it be.

Tbh, I was expecting 1... d5, but 1... b6 is also cute, that's something most opponents of Morphy and Tarrasch were incapable of doing in the 19th century 

the opponents blundered a lot.

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Bd3

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3.Bd3

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Bd3

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Bd3

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3.e5 to some degree over-extends White's center and also opens the b7 Bishop's diagonal. Since this is a hypermodern opening, Black will soon be trying to knock down our center, so we'd rather be developed and not extended too far when that happens :)

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+1 to mainline

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that's what I was gonna say :)

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The problem with e5 is that the chain gets undermined by c5 and then Nc6, that's why b6 was played in the first place Cool I'm in the Bd3 camp.

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what was better than 3... e6?

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I guess Nf3

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Nf3

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Well, Nf3 is getting played anyway; I'd look into Ne2 at some point (and bringing the f-pawn out after Q-side castling) if it were my personal game, but meh, I don't mind either way.

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nf3 seems more active though

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Agreed, plus we probably want our queen on e2.

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yeah

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Nf3

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if we had played e5 we would've lost a rook and a pawn

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He was discussing 3. e5, not 4. e5 Wink