Mm... tell me what am I missing, isn't 15. ... dxe5 good for black? And perhaps even 15. ... Bxf3 w 16. ... dxe5 (sacrificing the exchange) might be good too, or similar?
Can you show me which recognised player has played like that? You may be cheating yourself. Everyone is a grandmaster at blitz, but when it comes to grinding out wins through positional chess, many including myself are lacking !
Originally posted by z00t Can you show me which recognised player has played like that? You may be cheating yourself. Everyone is a grandmaster at blitz, but when it comes to grinding out wins through positional chess, many including myself are lacking !
Show me a slowchess game and we can talk sense.
Z00t! Z00t!
Wulebrg might not be able to, but I can offer another interesting game in this line:
Originally posted by TommyC Mm... tell me what am I missing, isn't 15. ... dxe5 good for black? And perhaps even 15. ... Bxf3 w 16. ... dxe5 (sacrificing the exchange) might be good too, or similar?
Yes, in my annotations, I noted that 15...d5? was an error, and gave 15...dxe5 as an improvement. 15...Bxf3 is better than the text, but still leaves white with an advantage.
After 15...dxe5 16.dxe5 Bxf3 presents white with a choice:
17.Bxf3? Nxe5 18.Qe2 (18.Bxa8 Qxa8 is worse for white) Nxf3+ 19.Qxf3 Qe7 leaves black a pawn ahead with few problems, and thus the better game.
17.Qxd7 sacrifices the exchange to 17...Bxd1 18.Rxd1 Qxd7 19.Rxd7, but whites pieces are more active and the black king is still under attack. Perhaps here, white maintains an advantage.
The easy factors to see are space, piece coordination and central piece control.
Less aparent factors are whites pieces are active, ie queen and bishop attacking, blacks knight and bishop defending. White has a range of good squares for his pieces black lacks many good squares for the pieces, ie blacks knights are liable to tread on each others toes whites arent....the white rooks can move freely around the back rank working together blacks rooks dont have this freedom yet........whites queen has a choice of squares/roles blacks queen has zip. A level pawn line gives you more options when recapturing ie the choice of two pawns to recapture with instead of maybe just one pawn choice.
Whites center is already over protected meaning he can move pieces away freely to do other jobs if the need arrises, basicly flexibilty.
Positional evaluation
06 Jun '06 18:34
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