Unlock your Genius April (General)

by Mahout, Friday, April 25, 2008, 11:07 (6203 days ago) @ giorgio

Apologies if there is any repetition as I wanted avoid reading any other comments before posting this. This sort of analysis is very new to me so please feel free to pull it apart as you see fit...I can only learn!

Here we go:

I think the poistion offers white a slight advantage because the knight should prove better than the bishop here with all the pawns on one side and with blacks d,e & f pawns are restrict the light squared bishop a little. Therefore I don't want to trade knight for bishop at the moment.

e5 looks like a good spot for whites knight influence on the 7th rank although black can play f6 to chase it off this would weaken e6.

Rc1 followed by Rc7 might be of interest but first I want to examine weather I can make anything from the knights current influence on g5 and f4 when combined with a pawn move.

At first I couldn't seem to make anything of any move by the g or h pawn but when I look at playing 1.g4 it seems to have a couple of benefits. It moves the black bishop from the c8 h3 diagonal making h4 a possible future move and it clears a path for my king to walk into the battle up the g file. I'd be happy to exchange pawns on the g and h files so I could bring my rook onto them.

But I still don't like 1.g4...Be4, 2.Ne5 because of 2...f6

So I'll choose 1.Rd1 planning Rd2. I'd be happy exchanging rooks because I think it might just improve my knights advantage over the bishop by taking away the prospect of the rook and bishop co-operating....the dark squares will be mine.

So following 2.Rd2 and with or without a trade of rooks I would activate my king with Kh2 and my intention is to get my king into the battle to either win a pawn down the g or h file or at least clear a file for my rook if they're still on board.

Now I'll go and read the other posts