I'm not sure that playing e5 so quickly without much preparation was the best you could do. Also the idea of playing c5 and b6 , neglecting your queenside development, strikes me as extremely optimistic at best. That being said, after 14.Qe2 , couldn't you have played Nd7, giving back an exchange and ending up with 2 pieces for the rook ( which is normally favorable ) , instead of playing Ne4 and giving the piece back? .. But again, those are just my spontaneous thoughts.
Nevermind 8..e5 seems to be completely fine according to stockfisch.. c5, though, is indeed quite dubious, because you are not developped enough to make your control of the d4 square a relevant factor in this position (i think ). Be3 b6 12.N*e5 was very well done by him, but he should have followed it up with an immediate Bf4, and then e5, winning back his material with a great position. But you probably have already analysed it with the computer and seen all this.;;
@jackymichel said in #11:
> I'm not sure that playing e5 so quickly without much preparation was the best you could do. Also the idea of playing c5 and b6 , neglecting your queenside development, strikes me as extremely optimistic at best. That being said, after 14.Qe2 , couldn't you have played Nd7, giving back an exchange and ending up with 2 pieces for the rook ( which is normally favorable ) , instead of playing Ne4 and giving the piece back? .. But again, those are just my spontaneous thoughts.
Well the idea of c5-b6 is to shutdown the queenside while i can still develop my pieces to the squares that i intended and i think that if white did not had fianchetto his light square bishop i would be fine.
Now about e5, well that is one of the reasons that qe8 is played anyway and I think that i am supposed to play it before my opponent manages to play e4.
About not playing Nd7 I can only say that i culculated the result wrong and i was greedy
> I'm not sure that playing e5 so quickly without much preparation was the best you could do. Also the idea of playing c5 and b6 , neglecting your queenside development, strikes me as extremely optimistic at best. That being said, after 14.Qe2 , couldn't you have played Nd7, giving back an exchange and ending up with 2 pieces for the rook ( which is normally favorable ) , instead of playing Ne4 and giving the piece back? .. But again, those are just my spontaneous thoughts.
Well the idea of c5-b6 is to shutdown the queenside while i can still develop my pieces to the squares that i intended and i think that if white did not had fianchetto his light square bishop i would be fine.
Now about e5, well that is one of the reasons that qe8 is played anyway and I think that i am supposed to play it before my opponent manages to play e4.
About not playing Nd7 I can only say that i culculated the result wrong and i was greedy
@T3SC said in #13:
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> Well the idea of c5-b6 is to shutdown the queenside while i can still develop my pieces to the squares that i intended and i think that if white did not had fianchetto his light square bishop i would be fine.
You're right , the long diagonal a8_h1 was a big problem because of the g2 bishop. But I would argue that it's far from being your only problem.. After Be3 for example, if you hadn't played b6 by fear of opening the diagonal and played Na6 instead, I think that the fact that you played c5 has benifited to white and not to black, since he cannot easily get to the d4 square easily( he just played Na6 ) whereas white has a better development, some potential pressure on the queenside with the bishop on g2 (maybe) and more importantly he can make use of the d5 square immediately by planting a knight there.. Anyway, I'll stop bothering you.
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> Well the idea of c5-b6 is to shutdown the queenside while i can still develop my pieces to the squares that i intended and i think that if white did not had fianchetto his light square bishop i would be fine.
You're right , the long diagonal a8_h1 was a big problem because of the g2 bishop. But I would argue that it's far from being your only problem.. After Be3 for example, if you hadn't played b6 by fear of opening the diagonal and played Na6 instead, I think that the fact that you played c5 has benifited to white and not to black, since he cannot easily get to the d4 square easily( he just played Na6 ) whereas white has a better development, some potential pressure on the queenside with the bishop on g2 (maybe) and more importantly he can make use of the d5 square immediately by planting a knight there.. Anyway, I'll stop bothering you.
@T3SC what's your point u played extremely bad in that game
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