Timeline for How to decide when is a3/h3 needed?
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| Jan 28, 2018 at 11:24 | comment | added | Ellie | @Emphyrio That's also a cool example :) | |
| Jan 28, 2018 at 4:42 | comment | added | Emphyrio | pressed enter too fast. The idea here is that on the natural 5...Be7, white usually challenges the Ne4 by playing Qe2 which kinda forces Nxc3 (so that they can take back d2xc3, which is slightly better than 6.d3 Nxc3 bxc). 5...Bc5 6.d4 Bb4 is another major line that avoids this, but 5...a6!?, while postposning white development, will allow black to answer 6.Qe2 with 6...Bf5 to maintain their outpost or strong pawn on e4 and make white development slightly more difficult as well. And of course after 5...Be7 instead, without a6, there would be Qb5+ followed by Qxb7. | |
| Jan 28, 2018 at 4:27 | comment | added | Emphyrio | I can't resist offering another example to those posted so far, as it's also a theoretical novelty : after 1.e4 e2 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Nf3 a6!? | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 15:21 | vote | accept | Ritesh Singh | ||
| Jan 24, 2018 at 20:19 | history | answered | Ellie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |