How to counter black’s early e5 on the Stonewall?
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So I’ve been quite enjoying playing the Stonewall with white. But I am having trouble how to continue after black’s e5, in a game of - d4 d5, e3 e5. Should i simply take and abandon a Stonewall setup, do still gain an advantage in such case? Or is there some other sequence of moves that allows me to continue in the Stonewall?
swarminglocusts escreveu:
Why not play f4 instead of e3? then play e3 later?
In order to free the white bishop, as to place him on d3 and not allow black's white bishop to control the diagonal
No reason to play f4 to prevent e5; e5 simply loses a pawn and you should be happy to be up material 3 moves into the game. Just keep developing pieces normally afterwards
You could ignore the pawn with 3. Nf3 and turn it into a reversed French Defence, up one tempo which seems interesting (and kind of confusing). Capturing the pawn is best as mentioned by @blank0923.
