Timeline for Playing with Ranks Advantage
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| Mar 11, 2021 at 16:37 | comment | added | Hauke Reddmann | Another fun thing: Put the white officers on the 4th and the pawns on the 3rd. Although this looks dangerous for Black, the white bishops ogling f7 and c7, White is already lost - f5+ followed by d5 exposes his king too much. So much for space advantage... | |
| Mar 11, 2021 at 16:25 | comment | added | Hauke Reddmann | Methinks that the White space advantage (save from the fact that the king can run into the botany) is less relevant here. More relevant is that a clash is imminent due to the armies being very close, and the starting tempo for White now is near to decisive. Just for fun, I put into the lichess engine - I would instinctively go for d6, Stockfish loves h6. | |
| Mar 10, 2021 at 3:08 | comment | added | Noam D. Elkies | In the "main line" after 1 h6 g6 2 fxg6 hxg6 White can already win a piece with 3 h7. After the further 3 d6 e6, your suggestion 4 h7 again wins that Knight -- you write "shift the black knight" but where can it go? After 4 . . . f5+ 5 exf6 ep, same question, and now instead of the follow-up Nf6+ White has the new possibilty of going for Ne5 and f7#. | |
| Mar 9, 2021 at 21:24 | comment | added | Noam D. Elkies | 1 Kd3 may be better it looks. Black is almost in Zugzwang! | |
| Mar 9, 2021 at 19:19 | history | answered | Brian Towers♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |