TL Chess Match - Page 21

followed by Nc6

Because the queen-side attack is possible (a5) without wasting time on rerouting via Nd2. Nc6 forces him to either abandon the queen-side temporarily which leaves us in a solid position, or we trade off the white square bishops then his other bishop is not as useful in the offensive due to the pawn structure and our solid defense, giving him very limited tactical possibilities. c5 might be useful later, but if we reroute our bishop to b7 first, it would make it even more possible, and this is the most logical line from here anyways. So yay us :D

10 a5! Qe7
11 axb6 a7xb6
12 RxR RxR

9 a4 Nc6
10 c5 ! Na5
11 Ba3 Ne4
12 cxd6 cxd6

or any of those variations

pretty much evening both center and queenside. and the game looks with no advantage for either white or black.

9 a4 Nc6
10 d5 !

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both get responded to with 10. ... Na5 hitting the c4 square. I'm not sure what the plan is with on the c5 line is with 11. Ba3 but I'd play 11. ... dxc5 winning a pawn. White can trade 12 dxc5 Qxd1 13. Rxd1 Nb3 and that preserves black's queen side pawn structure.

as for d5 I don't see what stops black from playing e5 one turn later. After that Ba6 hitting the c4 pawn a second time and then black can reroute knight to c4. With the deadlock in the center, white will have to deal with that knight or trade his good bishop (dark) to get rid of it..

I do not see the purpose of 10. Rb1; the most immediate threat is the line
a) 10. Rb1 Na5 11. c5, to which we can play either
a1) 11...Qe7 12. cxd6 cxd6, followed up by moves like either (Rac8 and Nd5 to assault the backwards c3 pawn, but perhaps prefaced by Ba6 to pressure and pin the e2 pawn, as well as momentarily tie down his queen?) or alteratively, play for a knight outpost on c4, after trading out light square bishop for his f3 knight, to prevent the exchange Nd2-xc4, then play d5 to solidify our centre and lock out his light bishop. that c4 knight could be quite the monster going into an endgame, especially against a tame bishop. Ba3 is not a posible counter now that the Rook is no longer on a1, due to Nc4 coming with tempo.

b) 11...dxc5 12. dxc5 and now:
b1) 12...Be4 13. Ra1 Nd5 14. Bb2 (or d2, very similar lines) Nc4 15. Qc1 bxc6 and we win a pawn and control of the b-file for our rooks. Note any rook move now wins a tempo as it his the bishop again.

ill do more later, its a public holiday here

If 11. c5 then Be4 seems better than Qe7