Russian 3 KNights Game

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Master_Po

Anything wrong with white's 6th move here?

What's blacks best reponse?  

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 d5 4.exd5 Nxd5 5.Nxd5 Qxd5 6.c4 

stephen_33

Although Game Explorer gives only d3, d4 & c3 in this position, it doesn't mean there's anything wrong with c4.

I don't know about Black's best response but ..Qe4+ looks reasonable.

Master_Po

Thanks for the response Stephen.  That was my first thought too, but then he just blocks with his bishop, and I've got my Q hanging out there to be hastled.  If I go Bb4 to pin his hastling d pawn, he can back my bishop up with 2 pawn moves, then I'll have to move it further down, then he CAN move his d pawn to attack my Q, then he's more developed and I'm running my Q around.  

    Since there never was this last c4 move in any exporers, I thought there MUST be something bad wrong with it.

Any other thoughts?

stephen_33

I only came across this webpage earlier today but when I ran the position through it just now, two of the engines gave Qe6 as best continuations & the third (Toga) gave Qe4, so it can't be too bad.

kikvors

It doesn't develop, blocks white's own bishop and leaves the d-pawn backwards. 5.Nxd5 must also be wrong, it just develops black's queen for free.

Why not 5.Nxe5? Doesn't that just refute 3...d5?