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An earlier post suggests 1.b4 c6 2.Bb2 Qb6 3.a3 a5 but then white has 4.c4 axb4 5.c5 chasing the queen away. In my opinion better for black is 2...a5 3.a3 axb4 4.axb4 Rxa1 5.Bxa1 and only now 5...Qb6. In turn, I advise white to avoid 2.Bb2 after 1.b4 c6. Maybe try 2.e3 in order to meet 2...a5 with 3.b5. Obviously white has no advantage, but getting a level position after 1.b4 is a good result! Enjoy your chess!
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e4 or e5, maybe I will copy my opponent and play b5
@Triangel said in #31:
> @Professor74 Here is another game I played in the lichess bundesliga. This time with 1...e5 instead of 1...d5 (...)
> I think this is quite a good line for Black. Compared to the Qd6 line, where you have pawn chains and closed positions, it rather relies on piece activity. The pieces are nicely centralized in this variation (...)
Black really deployed the pieces well, maintaining a good balance of forces in the center and on both flanks.
@Sarg0n said in #30:
> Actually, I would not have traded by means of 3. ... Bxf3, at least this is not my 1st idea.
Interesting. Let's see this game. Does it seem to you more adequate?
> @Professor74 Here is another game I played in the lichess bundesliga. This time with 1...e5 instead of 1...d5 (...)
> I think this is quite a good line for Black. Compared to the Qd6 line, where you have pawn chains and closed positions, it rather relies on piece activity. The pieces are nicely centralized in this variation (...)
Black really deployed the pieces well, maintaining a good balance of forces in the center and on both flanks.
@Sarg0n said in #30:
> Actually, I would not have traded by means of 3. ... Bxf3, at least this is not my 1st idea.
Interesting. Let's see this game. Does it seem to you more adequate?
You should cancel the game and just start a new one.
If someone plays b4 I am glad as I can choose to play whatever I like on that day. I will play what comes to my mind. There is one simple idea behind b4 and that's it. Probably e5 or Nf6.
For a while I also played 1...e5 in order to trade b4 against e5 as shown in #31. Objectively this is maybe the best, but especially in shorter time controls I find the position quite challenging. Especially when White plays 7.e3 instead of 7.g3. Black is ahead in developement, but has to play accurately: otherwise White might even gain the upper hand due to the extra central pawn. Recently I mostly played with Nf6, e6 like today:
b4 is hanging and after 3.b5 (which is more common than 3.a3 played in the game) Black can play d5, c5 and b6 and sort of play around the white pawn on b5 (often Nbd7, Bd6). Black has certainly no advantage, but gets a decent position with good central control.
b4 is hanging and after 3.b5 (which is more common than 3.a3 played in the game) Black can play d5, c5 and b6 and sort of play around the white pawn on b5 (often Nbd7, Bd6). Black has certainly no advantage, but gets a decent position with good central control.
i prefer e5 to b4... for those that want to mirror b4 with b5.. i don't know there's really no good justification of overextending a pawn that early.. e5 is an easy developing/attacking move.. and if you don't want to trade that for the b pawn play e6 just be mindful of the Bb2 ideas and don't lose that rook .. and sometimes even d5 after b4 try and get that siicilianish imbalance but those are just my preferences and I am in no way qualified to give you an exact answer but these are just my thoughts on responding to b4
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