Black is a pawn up. He has a powerful bishop controlling the long diagnol controlling the light squares and 3 central pawns on dark squares which makes it hard for the white knight to find a good home, the knight is pinned right now and black could make white commit his king to the center by playing qb7. black also has the half open b file for his heavy pieces. Potential weaknesses would be the d pawn which is backwards on white's half open file. I say black should play qb7, when white has to play ke2, after bxf3 and qxf3 white loses the b pawn. if white tries to defend the c pawn with qd3 i would probably play qb4 and trade queens into an ending with a 2 pawn advantage.
Black needs to gang up on that pinned knight as quickly as possible: 1....f5---This move played first (rather than Qb7 then 2....f5) because if white push to g5, then the pawn is taken for free via 2...Bxf3 3. Qxf3 3...Qxg5 and now black is up two pawns, white can't castle either way as of the moment and black has a dominating center still. Any other move drops the knight quickly:
2.Ke2 fxg4
3.hxg4 Qb7-knight cannot be defended.
4. Qc4+ Bd5
5. Qanywhere, Bxf3+
or
2.gxf5 Rxf5--Knight is gone, more power is coming.
3. Qc4+ d5 or Kh8---this move will b followed by aRf8
Originally posted by c guy1On my first look, I liked Qb7. It's what I'd play in blitz, certainly.
Black needs to gang up on that pinned knight as quickly as possible: 1....f5---This move played first (rather than Qb7 then 2....f5) because if white push to g5, then the pawn is taken for free via 2...Bxf3 3. Qxf3 3...Qxg5 and now black is up two pawns, white can't castle either way as of the moment and black has a dominating center still. Any other move dr ...[text shortened]... ight is gone, more power is coming.
3. Qc4+ d5 or Kh8---this move will b followed by aRf8
I dont understand any of the above posts....
the Simple Qf6 forces white to give up any idea of castling (ke2) or else lose the knight/rook.
then the just as simple d5, controling the centre....
why on earth even bother to look at half open b files and the like when the power of Qf6 Ke2 d5 is overwhelming?
edit -- in case you missed the winning idea and point behind d5:-
qhites queen has to stay on that rank, or else lose the knight.
if Rhd1 d4 Qh3 d3+
Originally posted by RahimKThis was a blitz game I played last night when I was trying out the 1.e4 Nc6 opening as Black.
[fen]r4rk1/4qppp/p2p4/2p1p3/4b1P1/2Q2N1P/PPP2P2/R3K2R b KQ - 0 18[/fen]
Black is a pawn up and I felt that my center was very strong. I planned on eliminating his knight and making my center mobile. The clock was ticking and I played:
18...d5 making my center mobile. -1.5 for Black
18...Qf6 was the best move judged at -2 for Black (18... Qf6 19. Ke2 d5)
[b]The game continued 19. Rg1 Bxf3 20. Qxf3 e4 21. Qe2 Qe5
22. O-O-O Rab8 23. c3 d4 24. cxd4 cxd4 25. Qxa6
Material is even but Black has a dominating position.
Black to move.
Originally posted by RahimKkings rook to d8...keep the center tough...
This was a blitz game I played last night when I was trying out the 1.e4 Nc6 opening as Black.
Black is a pawn up and I felt that my center was very strong. I planned on eliminating his knight and making my center mobile. The clock was ticking and I played:
[b]18...d5 making my center mobile. -1.5 for Black
18...Qf6 was the best move judged at -2 ...[text shortened]... R2R1 b - - 0 25[/fen]
Material is even but Black has a dominating position.
Black to move.[/b]
