Originally posted by Black Star Uchess yes looks good. Think 16 NxP would have got him out of trouble to... the bishop sac was probably wrong, I was lucky....
But if blacks bishop on g5 is still pinning the f2 pawn then the bishop sacrifice on g4 is much more sound, i don't think white can take it. but they often do (eg. in the game above if white played d3, rather then d4)
also with f6, you can play g5, h5 easily..
the bishop sac is similiar to a trap out of the Ruy exchange variation.
I think it was correct, but your f6 pawn was in the way, again.
It was a good game. just one move wrong and that attack would have won.... like i said at the start i use the f6 move like a trap... n do find people walk into it. but recon there might be some tactical means like banx was trying to crush it... it look like a good defencse to me so there must be a reason why it's not popular.
If you are interested in seeing f6 used in practise, I once played it against a fide master in a tournament,:
http://www.chesslive.de/scripts/server.dll?setplayer?black&Stewart,Joseph
It is the second game in the list. I lost eventually, being a much lower rated player back in those days and the game was over 6 hours long so I was too worn out to think of anything decent at the end, but I feel that it did give me some chances and I may well have held a draw if I played him now from the same sort of position.
Good effort. He knew he had been in a game of chess there.
You can walk away from that one with your head high.
These good players wear you down at the board. I don't think I could
do the 6 hour stint OTB these days. It's too long and I'd probably
play the same moves as I would if was an allegro.
f6? in the Ruy Lopez
13 May '09 19:311 edit
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