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- From one of my tournament games:
- I played b5 here which is not the
- best.
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- The move f4 for black prevents white
- from playing to the same square,
- and gives black a little more space.
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- Fritz likes Qf6 with the f3 fork
- threat. So now after Qf3, the move
- b5 can be played like in the actual
- game. The difference here is,
- as Silman says, why let your opponent
- expand on one side of the board
- when you can expand on both?
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- exf4 prevents the creation of a white
- passed pawn on the d file.
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Black to Move
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- It should be obvious that White is
- about to lose.
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Black to Move
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- Although other moves still win, Qa4
- is the fastest. The queen is
- going to go to c2 and then to b1 and
- the game is over.
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Black to move
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- e5 is the strongest move allowing
- black to rid himself of his backward
- pawn
- and maybe create a passed pawn by
- playing e4. White can't take the
- pawn
- because of Nxe5 winning a piece.
- Later the e5 pawn advance lead to
- other
- tactical complications.
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Black to move
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- Na5 is the strongest way to win
- material because of the Bc6 threat.
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Black to move
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- e4 wins the queen because if Qg2
- Nxe3+ forks the king and queen.
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Black to move
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- Ne7 wins material with the threat of
- Bc6, and the knight to e7 deters
- Bd5.
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Black to move
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- A senior master played Nf6, but Fritz
- likes instead Nd4, Nxd4
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- Kg1 will be the same
Black to move
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- With some pressure in the position.
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Black to move
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- White captures with the knight to
- protect f4.
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- Ditto to g3.
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- with eventual Bxe2+ followed by e5
- and center pressure.