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⚠️Not the most optimal move, since it is not developing a piece. However it's definatly not bad for black.
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Also allows white to inmidiatly take the center.
3…
✅This would be a normal move.
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Often you don't really want to give up your bisshop for the knight so early.
bisshops tend to be a 'little bit stronger' often and giving one up so early can be seen as an advantage for white.
💡Black saw this and for this reason decided to trade the knight for the bisshop.
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📖This is where the theory from having a tempo comes in and why i choose to use this particular game.
this allows me to have explain tempo/iniative really well.📖
-> every move that follows now, forces black to respond to our play.
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⚠️a logical move.
Now it's white to move.
You can decide what would be the best move for white here.
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Also due to the pawn on E4 being attacked. White decides to ❗DEVELOP❗ a piece. whilst also ❗defending❗/.
What else is this move threatening?
-->
ND5 or ND6
so black responds with
💡White could decide to take the pawn and play with a pawn advantage. However white decided to play with even more iniative and play even more active.
8…
💡Logical move:
- 🛑 Nd5, nb5
- 🛑 Qxb7
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NOW WE HAVE A GOOD POSITION WITH WHITE.
WHAT NOW?
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📏White wants to keep being active and have more forcing moves, so that our pieces keep being more active than the opponent pieces.
❗However ❗
- 🔑BG5
White wants to keep being active and forcing moves
💡Logical moves 💡:
- Castling, logical and ok move
but also :
This would mean that our king is safe, atleast. but apart from that no benefits.
A long castle would be alot more beneficial, considering the rook would look out on the entire D file.
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White to move.
White has an important decision here.
What are the options?
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✅❗It is very important that white keeps attacking, and playing 'forward'. This is a great moment to offer your horse.✅❗
🔑Why is this a key move?:
- White remains having the initative, and being aggressive.
- Blacks king is still in the middle which we can exploit
- White needs to keep attacking.
❗Tricky to make a move like this in an important game, but keeping in mind that going back would give black time to develop and come back in the game. ❗
💡Logical moves 💡:
- Bisshop is under attack, we put it on a safe square.Now black can develop too, but this also allows black to come in the game. SInce black is getting time to develop and white starts to lack initavive.
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🔑Now again a key move.
What would be the best move here?
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💡Keeping the king save, but more importantly ❗ activating ❗ our rook
12…
Qeustion remains the same:
How does white make progress???
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✅❗Typical in morphy style ✅❗
- Offering the rooks, not even giving black time to do anything.
Multiple options.
No good checks yet, so lets start with captures. Do captures win inmidiatly?
🛑no, so we move on to other options.
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- Bringing over the other rook, again black still has the same problems.
14…
Duke defends with the idea of trading queens, allowing black to recapture with the knight since the pin is gone;
However-
🔑key idea here, white to move and win?
-> good calculation exercise
✅Tip: Look for forcing moves.
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TLDR :
- White had advantage in development
- Kept attacking weak spots on black
- Black couldn't develop, black had to instantly defend and look for less optimal developing moves. TLDR :
- White had advantage in development
- Kept attacking weak spots on black
- Black couldn't develop, black had to instantly defend and look for less optimal developing moves.