The Queen's Gambit Point Machine
28 Dec '05 03:15To those who fancy 1. e4, I offer the following ruminations by USCF Senior Master Mark Morss:
I consider that 1. d4 is the best move on the board, the chief reason being that 1…d5 condemns Black to a long defensive struggle with very few winning chances. The analogous statement is not true of 1…e5 after 1. e4, a system where everything hangs on a tempo and Black often takes over the role of White after just one sloppy move by his opponent. By contrast after 1. d4 d5 2. c4, White by very simple means and with essentially no risk obtains a slight advantage and good prospects of converting it to a win. In the main lines of the Queen's Gambit Declined or the Slav, one or even two flaccid moves by White often leave Black still wondering where his counterplay is....
Entire article can be found at: http://www.correspondencechess.com/campbell/hard/h000331.htm
I consider that 1. d4 is the best move on the board, the chief reason being that 1…d5 condemns Black to a long defensive struggle with very few winning chances. The analogous statement is not true of 1…e5 after 1. e4, a system where everything hangs on a tempo and Black often takes over the role of White after just one sloppy move by his opponent. By contrast after 1. d4 d5 2. c4, White by very simple means and with essentially no risk obtains a slight advantage and good prospects of converting it to a win. In the main lines of the Queen's Gambit Declined or the Slav, one or even two flaccid moves by White often leave Black still wondering where his counterplay is....
Entire article can be found at: http://www.correspondencechess.com/campbell/hard/h000331.htm
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