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Are these depth-41 Stockfish evals the result of a horizon effect?
I was using lichess's analysis board for Stockfish's analysis of this line in the French:
[Title "French Defence, Steinitz Variation"]
[StartFlipped "0"]
[fen ""]
1. e4 ...
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In French Defense Advance Variation, why does white play an early f4?
Game.
First five moves:
[FEN ""]
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. f4
Why did white play f4?
My guesses:
To defend e5 in case if d4 falls.
Pawn pointing theory seems to indicate ...
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Why not 7.Bb4+ before playing Ne7 in the French Defence: Advance, Paulsen Attack?
After playing 5.Qb6 which I believe is the final move of the Advance variation of the French, my opponent played 6.a4. I followed with cxd4 and them by cxd4 as well. After that I couldn't remember the ...
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Central control disliked by engine in 1.e4 e6 2.d4 a6 3.c4
Recently I played a chess game that started with the moves: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 a6 and then I played 3. c4 which according to Stockfish is inaccurate.
[fen ""]
1. e4 e6 2. d4 a6 3. c4
What is the ...
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Why doesn't white play Bd2 after this ...Qa5+?
I was looking at an analysis which shows this position ( from Bacrot - McShane 2018). At this point Black just played ...Qa5+, and the only moves that are analyzed for white are Kf2, c3 and Qd2.
This ...
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How could I have extracted an opening advantage in this Owen's defence game?
I played as white against Owen's defence from black, which is seen as being quite dubious. After 21 moves, we agreed to a draw.
My question is, how could white have extracted an opening edge here?
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French Defense ECO C00 game for analysis
Here is the game for analysis which had been played between two matured person.
[fen ""]
1.e4 e6 2.d3 g6 3.f3 Bg7 4.g4 a5 5.h3 a4 6.b3 a3 7.Nxa3 Bxa1 8.Bd2 Rxa3 9.Qxa1 f6 10.Qc1 Rxa2 11.Qb1 Ra3 12. ...
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ECO B40 game for analysis
Here is the game pgn,
[fen ""]
[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2017.02.15"]
[Round "?"]
[White "johnybravo001"]
[Black "anandsadasivam"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B40"]
[WhiteElo "827"]
[...
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What can be the variation name of this complete game which falls on ECO C02
When I had looked at
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessopening?eco=C02
there are 4,893 variations found for ECO C02.
Is this variation can have some name from among 4893 variation, sorry for ...
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playing C00 French:KIA `2. d3 d5`
When played C00 French:KIA 2. d3 d5, I choose to move my pawn 8. ... b4 to reply 8. Bd2.
After that, 'the battle at early game is held' with 9. a3 bxa3 10. Nxa3 Bxa3 11. Rxa3 and at the end of game, ...
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Reply for C11 French/Steinitz after `5. Nf3 c5`
When playing C11 French/Steinitz, 6. dxc5 Bxc5 is chosen. Even in Shredder, it's most played in C11 French/Steinitz. What should White best reply after 6. dxc5 Bxc5??
[FEN ""]
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. ...
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