28-03-2012, 12:00 PM
[pgn]1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O b5 6. Bb3 Be7 7.Re1 *[/pgn]
Spoiler ----> Sigh. He's going to play a Marshall if I let him. Well, maybe I should let him for entertainment value and I have picked up a few ideas in it. Okay, so I can either decide not to play it now with d3 or maybe d4. Problems is I know literally nothing about d4 and d3 doesn't inspire confidence even though top players have previously played this. Think Gata Kamsky played like this once; the idea is to swing the knight to g3 before playing d4 so the knight doesn't get in the way of white's pieces in the center. But a tempo is a tempo and probably isn't much/anything for white.
Why didn't I play 1.d4? 1.e4 is rubbish.
Right, I'll play an anti-Marshall. Not sure about a4 or h3 but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. <-----Spoiler
Spoiler ----> Sigh. He's going to play a Marshall if I let him. Well, maybe I should let him for entertainment value and I have picked up a few ideas in it. Okay, so I can either decide not to play it now with d3 or maybe d4. Problems is I know literally nothing about d4 and d3 doesn't inspire confidence even though top players have previously played this. Think Gata Kamsky played like this once; the idea is to swing the knight to g3 before playing d4 so the knight doesn't get in the way of white's pieces in the center. But a tempo is a tempo and probably isn't much/anything for white.
Why didn't I play 1.d4? 1.e4 is rubbish.
Right, I'll play an anti-Marshall. Not sure about a4 or h3 but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. <-----Spoiler