Originally posted by greenpawn34lol, you play the Latvian because you get to put two adjacent pawns on the fifth rank! After following Nimzo pawn theory or whoever invented it 🙂
"I really thought you would like the idea..."
I do Robbie. Good post.
But you have to take it a bit further on the explanation side.
Loads of people reads these threads, not just the posters.
You say:
" which i tried to illustrate from a game against a beginner. "
I cannot see the game. That is what I thought post lacked.
An example. A c ...[text shortened]... .
My Latvians rarely (never) go into endings. (and you kniow how I feel about endings.)
Ah... a game in progress. misread the post.
(You mentioned games played in the opening post.)
So you could not really go into the game because ATM it violates TOS.
You have to note it up when finished. (be funny if you lost) 😉
Regarding the centre I often recall the words by Tarrasch.
He states that chess is a bad (or is it silly) game.
You spend ages building a good solid centre.
And then your troubles really begin.
Think he means keeping the thing together and getting a solid plus
out of it is tough work. It's quite a resposibility taking the centre, if
you lose it you lose control.
The hardest thing to do in chess is to win a won game.
yes its soooo beautifully simple pawndude, i like i like, no theory, no messin, no giving
up the centre with wussie d3 moves, no fiachettoing the kings bishop, just fight for the
centre. Apparently its the third most popular move and scores a respectable 57%, not
that statistics like that are an indication of anything, by any means, buts its good and
fits in with our theory, also is good is taking the e pawn and then establishing a pawn
on d4 🙂
It's a Falkbeer reversed a tempo up.
Black was doing OK here with it though, look at that centre.
Then played a move that if followed by the two most important things you look
for in a pre-send scan.
'Any checks, any pieces on unprotected square.'
He would have seen just how bad the move he played in the above position was.
Black played 14...Nc6?
He may have seen it and got clouded by his own threat of d4.