tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post7915757677725470600..comments2024-03-28T01:17:43.262+01:00Comments on Temposchlucker: I like my lists shortTemposchluckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07977208394417444785noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-17482302866624985832007-01-19T20:18:00.000+01:002007-01-19T20:18:00.000+01:00Hope you had a good first round at Corus. No resul...Hope you had a good first round at Corus. No results posted yet, but I see you on the list.<br /><br />Your post has inspired me to formulate a rule: If all your pieces are good, consider moving a pawn. In this case this would have helped, but in other cases it may be wrong. Anyway, you always can make waiting moves with pieces until your opponent blunders. Or else you will have not more than a draw which is not enough in a superior position.Christianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09160555681387976338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-83211815031064289442007-01-19T14:56:00.000+01:002007-01-19T14:56:00.000+01:00just to get another point of view, I plugged the p...just to get another point of view, I plugged the position into fritz. at depth 16, it likes the h3 the second best +1.75 (so it's probably also a choice for an attacking player), first choice Bf1 +1.76, but my attacking of a3-pawn forcing the other rook on the a-file gets also +1.70 so it's not that bad either...wormwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03660805360182226665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-82915466187066561872007-01-19T14:23:00.000+01:002007-01-19T14:23:00.000+01:00that all said, it's a completely different thing t...that all said, it's a completely different thing to play against botvinnik et al. :) and I also suspect the assignments might disregard stuff for educational reasons, just like the zen-larsen's positions.<br /><br />okay, the more I think of it, I'm probably wrong. the unavoidable patzer hubris has struck again. :) but I still doubt some attacking player would go on with h3...wormwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03660805360182226665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-55955853697012589272007-01-19T14:00:00.000+01:002007-01-19T14:00:00.000+01:00I think your actual problem might be you didn't ha...I think your actual problem might be you didn't have a plan. you developed your pieces, expecting tactics to miraculously appear. sometimes it happens, and it surely enchances the possibilities greatly. but if your opponent is skilled enough, it won't happen. he'll just defend well and nothing happens. but if you had a plan like 'break through to the king' as the positioning of your rooks seem to suggest, you probably wouldn't have advanced your pawns so that you'd end up without possibility to break. don't leave it to your opponent's strategical blunders to grant you an attack, make sure you are the one who decides wether you can break through. (not that the h3-plan was bad, it just seems quite passive as you have no muscle there. black king is perfectly safe regardless of your well positioned pieces.)<br /><br />you could also force the other rook on the dead-end a-file by threatening his a-pawn, and then bust through the center.<br /><br />if I was black here and you'd start the slow h3-plan, I'd exchange knights on b6, bust through b-file and invade your camp. suddenly white king would be dangerously exposed. unless you could create dangerous enough counter attack, and I think h3-plan is far too slow for that.<br /><br />my 2 cents.wormwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03660805360182226665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-34522646094752043782007-01-19T06:41:00.000+01:002007-01-19T06:41:00.000+01:00I have the same problem. Often I end up with a won...I have the same problem. Often I end up with a wonderful position, but no obvious tactics, and have no idea what to do. Typically at this juncture it's time to start an attack (otherwise my positional advantage may be equalized or worse). Perhaps the question "Is it time to start the final attack, and where?" would have lead you to the right move?Blue Devil Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12045468316613818510noreply@blogger.com