let me solve knight misery, you should develop your knight where it helps to control the center, the exact central squares ares D4,D5, E4,E5. You may develop your knight to d2, or e2, because its controls the central squars, be developing the knight to f3 or c3 will control more advanced center . That's why gm says that try to occupy your opponent's territory before attacking. I hope you understood
Where and when should knights be developed?
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TheEagle91 написал:
That's why gm says that try to occupy your opponent's territory before attacking. I hope you understood
So you should play Nc3 and Nf3 to occupy center and Nd2 and Ne2 to defence center? Did I got it right?
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Developing a knight to e2 will support the c3 square, and vice versa, However, the knight does not have as strong a control over the center. A knight on e2 can still support d4, though, and vice versa. Moving the c-pawn to c3 will also support d4 and open the queen's diagonal. The opposite applies here, too, but it also opens a dangerous diagonal to the king, so it's not a very good idea. Personally, though, I usually do develop the knights to c3 and f3. Of course, moving the knight to e2 will block in the light-square bishop (unless you have developed it already), and, as before, the opposite applies.
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itay72 wrote:
I end up in a dilemma of wanting to play Nc3/Nc6 to develop my knights to these squares and not wanting to play Nd2 and Ne2 because it blocks in some pieces's lines, but also wanting to push the c/f pawns, but not too early because I don't want to make too many early pawn moves while my opponent is developing. It's all very confusing. Can someone please help me out here and clear up some of this confusion? Thanks in advance.
You are not confused, it's just that chess is complicated! The problem is that general principles only tell you what to think of, they don't tell you the final answer. To know when to play Nb1-c3 vs Nb1-d2, when to play c2-c3 or c2-c4, or c2-c3 and then c3-c4, or not.... Sometimes you have to just "know", so the answer is to look at some theory. Unless of course you want to figure it out all by yourself, by trial and error. Which is possible, but civilization was built by learning via the written word from all the trials and errors already made before our time.
Hello! I am currently struggling on a few things with my openings. One of them is not knowing where to develop my knights. I remember I once heard that knights should be developed to c3 or f3, and to avoid developing them to a3 or h3. This is all fine, but what I'm confused on is developing the knights to d2 or e2 after the center pawns are pushed. I usually go out of my way to avoid this, and I also avoid moving my pawns to c3 or f3 to not "trap" my knights, even though I am not really trapping them, I am just blocking one of their potential moves.
I don't really understand the advantage of developing the knights this way. The knight's vision does not extend to black's side of the board this way, and it also blocks in a bishop as well as the queen in the case of Ne7. I guess the one thing that makes sense is that it doesn't block your c and f pawns, but in what situations would these pawns being blocked have such a huge impact your position? It's a conflict of interests; I want to push my c or f pawns, depending on which way I wanna castle, but also the c3 and f3 squares are much more attractive for my knights because Nd2 and Ne2 just block in so much stuff... I end up in a dilemma of wanting to play Nc3/Nc6 to develop my knights to these squares and not wanting to play Nd2 and Ne2 because it blocks in some pieces's lines, but also wanting to push the c/f pawns, but not too early because I don't want to make too many early pawn moves while my opponent is developing. It's all very confusing. Can someone please help me out here and clear up some of this confusion? Thanks in advance.