very interesting material imbalances

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AntonioEsfandiari

I have been experimenting with a few different material imbalance positions for practice/entertainment  What do you guys think? here is one of them

had to give white 2 extra development moves or it was just too difficult to get the rooks coordinated in time against good players.

AntonioEsfandiari

here is another one that seems pretty fair

CookedQueen

(@1st) Without covering the diagonals white would suffer quite hardly of the imbalance until the king is broken. Imho the two extra dev. moves don't change anything on that.

(@2nd) could be interesting to find out

AntonioEsfandiari

 CookedQ, it might be more balanced than you think.  White is actually up 4pts of material and his king is pretty much always reasonably safe.

AntonioEsfandiari

here's another one, been tweaking it, might be semi-balanced now.