couldnt get goin with the kia!!
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any pointers or analysis of what i could have played
Your opponent played ...d4 closing the center early on, so the logical follow up is to play f4, and then usually f5 to close the kingside, and then a pawn storm with g5, sometimes with a g6 pawn sac or with rook lifts to the h file. However if black doesn't play ...d4 you have to try to clarify the center before pushing the f pawn, as with the center fluid it usually just weakens the kingside too much. Normally your opponent doesn't push to d4 so soon, so you want to force him to either take on e4 or play ...d4 by putting pressure on the center.
Elubas wrote:
Your opponent played ...d4 closing the center early on, so the logical follow up is to play f4, and then usually f5 to close the kingside, and then a pawn storm with g5, sometimes with a g6 pawn sac or with rook lifts to the h file. However if black doesn't play ...d4 you have to try to clarify the center before pushing the f pawn, as with the center fluid it usually just weakens the kingside too much. Normally your opponent doesn't push to d4 so soon, so you want to force him to either take on e4 or play ...d4 by putting pressure on the center.
how can i do that with a knight blocking my f pawn??
Chess_Raider wrote:
Elubas wrote:
Your opponent played ...d4 closing the center early on, so the logical follow up is to play f4, and then usually f5 to close the kingside, and then a pawn storm with g5, sometimes with a g6 pawn sac or with rook lifts to the h file. However if black doesn't play ...d4 you have to try to clarify the center before pushing the f pawn, as with the center fluid it usually just weakens the kingside too much. Normally your opponent doesn't push to d4 so soon, so you want to force him to either take on e4 or play ...d4 by putting pressure on the center.
how can i do that with a knight blocking my f pawn??
did you mean that after knight g5
AnthonyCG wrote:
That's a reversed KID I think!
I wonder if 5.Be2 is better.
It looks that why. In the game white's bishop is trapped in so onn e2 maybe it could help in the game somehow
8.h3?
Chess_Raider wrote:
Elubas wrote:
Your opponent played ...d4 closing the center early on, so the logical follow up is to play f4, and then usually f5 to close the kingside, and then a pawn storm with g5, sometimes with a g6 pawn sac or with rook lifts to the h file. However if black doesn't play ...d4 you have to try to clarify the center before pushing the f pawn, as with the center fluid it usually just weakens the kingside too much. Normally your opponent doesn't push to d4 so soon, so you want to force him to either take on e4 or play ...d4 by putting pressure on the center.
how can i do that with a knight blocking my f pawn??
Move it 
It's clearly more important that once ...d4 is played closing the center that you can expand on the kingside than your knight being on f3 the whole game. It's worth the tempo to play f4 once the center is closed. The problem with doing it via Ng5 is that the knight would just get kicked back by ...h6 either to f3 (blocking the pawn again) or to a poor square like h3.
Nov 22, 2009
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tonydal wrote:
Don't really understand the title (or why you feel you need pointers). Your opponent got a bad game, and at the end you have a winning position.
my initial thoughts when reading the thread title are confirmed. They are in fact having car troubles