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A 15 mover from the 2022 British Championship

A 15 mover from the 2022 British Championship

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greenpawn34

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T. Villiers - I.. Lentzos Rd.3

Chris Guffogg
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@greenpawn34
4👍 Brilliant....🚬

greenpawn34

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Hi Chris,

We were looking at this at he club tonight, it is good play by White
to think of giving the Queen back and way it was done.

Shallow Blue

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@greenpawn34 said
it is good play by White
to think of giving the Queen back and way it was done.
They say that one of the greatest pluses of a material advantage is that you can always give it back while collecting interest. Even a woodpusher like me has been able to use that sometimes.

If you have a knight extra, you can collect some pawns, then give back the knight to stop your opponent's attack, and still be a few pawns up while positionally equal. If you have gained some development by giving away some material, you have to use that advantage to either storm all over your opponent's king (rarely practical) or gain back the material now, and in doing so let your opponent develop. In that case, you're more likely, unless you're a better player than I am, to gain more material than you sacrificed in the first place, and you'll have to make do with merely a slightly better placed bishop - a much more ephemeral advantage, at least at my level.

greenpawn34

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I've often mentioned that when I'm a piece up I think;
'Good now I have two pieces to sacrifice.'

Think I'll show it again in the next blog, which is returning to normal,
more silliness masked with instruction which due to the PM's it's what people enjoy.
Good, becuase it's what I enjoy as well.

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