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I agree that we should continue to contest the center. I was considering ...e7-e6 or ...e7-e5 , but either move opens us up to shenanigans like 8. Bc1-g5 and a clear threat to our queen. Let's go with ...Ng8-f6.
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It's time to move that Knight. Ng8-f6 Just realized I made a mistake in my previous post... sorry if that confused anyone 
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Oct 13, 2017 15:55
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 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Nc6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Qxd4 Bd7 6.Bxc6 Bxc6 7.Nc3 Nf6 White has 24 hours to decide on a move. What do you think is the opponent's best move, and what is your best counter to that move?
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Oct 18, 2017 21:15
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Kingside castle or deploying the queenside bishop seems like the most likely options for them.
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Oct 19, 2017 05:47
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anakha posted:Kingside castle or deploying the queenside bishop seems like the most likely options for them. It's early, but they seem to prefer not to castle when another option is on the table. If they deploy the bishop, the only sensible move is Bc1g5, which is actually quite the pain in the rear end: threatens our Knight while being covered by theirs, and leaves us with little counterplay that I can see. I convinced myself by writing the post, calling their move as Bc1g5
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Oct 19, 2017 16:24
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LupusAter posted:It's early, but they seem to prefer not to castle when another option is on the table. If they deploy the bishop, the only sensible move is Bc1g5, which is actually quite the pain in the rear end: threatens our Knight while being covered by theirs, and leaves us with little counterplay that I can see. Yeah, I was studying the board some more and that's the move I would make if I were in their shoes. If they make that move, I'm liking e7-e6. h7-h6 is the obvious-looking move to try and chase off the bishop, but e7-e6 seems like the more proactive move.  The pawn at e6 frees up our bishop to move to support the knight and allows us to kingside castle later on. In addition, it allows us to continue to contest the center of the board. If White wants to go ahead and capture the knight, we can recapture with our queen and pressure them to trade queens. A queen trade now works for us because they chose to delay development earlier to bring out the queen, and a queen trade now would negate any advantage they tried to get in choosing to develop the queen instead of their other pieces. e7-e5 doesn't seem to be feasible right now because e5 is threatened by multiple pieces and protected only by one..
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Oct 19, 2017 17:06
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 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Nc6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Qxd4 Bd7 6.Bxc6 Bxc6 7.Nc3 Nf6 8.Bg5 You have 24 hours to decide on a move.
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Oct 19, 2017 22:53
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Welp, called it. I kinda like the plan of enticing them to capture and then tempt with the queen exchange: we'd get absolute control over the diagonals, which might be not much but it's something. They might also be reluctant to initiate, since it'd mean losing both bishops at a stage where bishops start being powerful due to the less crowded board. Voting for e7e6.
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Oct 19, 2017 23:50
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Yup, as analyzed above, I'll go for e7-e6.
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Oct 20, 2017 00:27
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I'm also down with e7-e6.
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Oct 20, 2017 03:48
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Well, good work! I've got nothing else to say, your plan looks convincing enough for me. e7-e6.
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