Philidor's Defense is reached by the moves 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6. It seems to be a great defence... it cramps black but gives a solid defence which is defendable into the endgame... what is whites best bet to breach this defence?
Originally posted by ChessJester Philidor's Defense is reached by the moves 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6. It seems to be a great defence... it cramps black but gives a solid defence which is defendable into the endgame... what is whites best bet to breach this defence?
Originally posted by ChessJester oh yah! lol, of course! so I guess the italian style attack isn't as good right away... which is probably why I was owned. :p
Some of the ideas are similar except the knight is on d4. So you have Nd4, Bc4, 0-0, Nc3 etc...
You can even try to turn it into a gambit with 3.d4 exd4 4.c3 dxc3 5.Nxc3 if your opponent obligizes.
Philidor's defense fell out of favor 200 years ago. Nimzowvich, Alekhine, and Tartakower used it occasionally in the early 1900's, but nobody much plays it anymore among the big boys.
Originally posted by ChessJester Yes it is... wowZA! white totally took full advantage there.
All the moves are very logical. I like the move which prevents black for trade of the queens. Very nice. See this site. It's great and explains the moves very nicely. It's sort of guess the move.
I love the Philidor, and I play it almost exclusively. One piece of advice though, I only occassionally see 3. d4 (the "correct" move). Instead, far more common, is 3. Bc4. I struggled with this "incorrect" move because very few chess opening books (even ones dedicated to the Philidor!) spend much time on it.
Fighting Philidor
08 May '06 22:53
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