Evan and all,
What Chris points out is excellent advice. Contrary to what some will
say, there are good and bad opening systems, especially among the more
obscure ones. The trouble for us club level players to discern is what
is an early bad system or line and what's not.
Part of what makes the e3 square weak in this system beginning with
1.d4 Nf6 2.f3 is that, in part, the amount of pieces necessary to be
tied up defending it. Only the queen's bishop can defend it after
whites second move. Notice that either black is going to respond
2...e6, 2...g6, or occasionally 2...d6 which lead into very strong and
orthodox systems that, by themselves maximize the power of black's
bishop pair. When white has a liability from the get go, squares such
as e3 become weak and prone to assault.
Some tactics from black may include the Q sliding down to h4 for the
simple reason of pulling apart white's Kside supports. With the Qside
already opened up from move 1, Qside castling will eventually prove to
be a liability if played.
Much of the time when I've seen 2.f3 at the club level, I've run
something akin to the French or the Bogo or Old Indian against it with
good success.
The advantage of playing such openings is that they, along with the
King's Indian leave pawn breaks and attacks against white's arsenal
till every piece is pretty much developed and in them no one piece has
to move more than once or twice to get the opening job done.
Further thoughts from Chris, Jim, Tyson, Paul, Jeff et al correcting
my analysis would be helpful since you guys are a heck of a lot higher
rated and experienced than the average club level.
BTW: It's really helpful studying games from the IBCA tournaments or
the New in Chess sections in Chess Magazine to see the use and
analysis of various opening theory.
David
On 8/30/18, Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I thought I had posted this earlier, but perhaps it didn't go through.
I think I understand most of the below, the f3 square being taken away from
the Knight, and the d4 pawn being unsupported. But I do not follow how the
e3 square is weak. The f2 pawn is no longer covering it, but the Bishop is
still on c1.
Any help appreciated.
Evan
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Ross
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 6:58 PM
To: usbca_chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [usbca_chess] Re: A couple of Chess facts!
David,
Understanding basic positional principals will often guide you to beat such
stupid systems as 2. F3.
1. D4 Nf6 2. F3?!
Leaves the e3, f2 and other king-side dark-squares weak. The d4-pawn is not
supported. The f3-square is taken away from the king's white knight.
So, both 2... d5 controlling the e4-square, preventing e2-e4 and more
importantly,
2... c5 attacking d4 and striking at the dark-squares is simply equalising
for black.
2... c5 3. Dxc5 e6 and black's already on the road to controlling the g1-a7
diagonal, where f3 is just a stupid move.
2... c5 3. D5
and black can consider 3... b5 and have an accelerated Benko or enter into a
Bennoni where f3 is not helpful at all.
One need not learn such theory to such stupid variations. Understand the
principals and it will turn out just fine for you, if not equalisation, but
maybe obtaining an advantage.
Cheers,
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Rosenkoetter
Sent: 28 August 2018 13:47
To: usbca_chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [usbca_chess] Re: A couple of Chess facts!
Tyson et al,
You're so right! If you go to www.chessgames.com, there's a great opening
explorer.
.
So when those of us who are not-so-masterly in our experience see the
line: 1.d4 Nf6 2.f3, it's no time for us to think our opponent's algebraic
notation is off. It's the pale-face attack and, if you're not ready for it,
that puppy can be a tough system to navigate.
There are lots of good subvariations with which to respond to it, though.
David
On 8/28/18, mordue andrew <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
All,
This is why it is important to learn your openings in case you meet a
Chinese opponent!
Tyson
On 28 August 2018 at 00:29 Alan Dicey <adicey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A few Chess facts
There are 318,979,564,000 different ways of playing the first four
moves by each player in a game of chess.
There are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 different ways of
playing the first ten moves by each player in a game of chess.
- - - -
There are over 200 million inhabitants of China that are keen chess
players.
- -
The word "Checkmate" comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat", which
means
"the king is dead".
- -
With best regards
God Bless
Alan
Plantation, Sunny South Florida
