| Game analysis - Comments on this game.#3 13. ... Ng4 Where is your knight headed? This looks like a reaction to e5 rather than a planned move. What's the threat of e5? At some point in here, you'll want to develop your bishop and connect you… | ericmsd |
| Game analysis - Why this position is a pawn up for black#5 With grandmaster level play on both sides, the small advantage will disappear with time. Or, play an engine with sufficient time against itself, and the small advantage will equalize with time. The ad… | ericmsd |
| Game analysis - Why this position is a pawn up for black#2 Play a filler move, like Kh8. And...it's back to being equal. Often in positions like this, if one side got an extra move, they could equalize the position. The engine likes e4 after Kh8: control of t… | ericmsd |
| Game analysis - Is ... f5 a mistake owing to e.p.?#17 @Sarg0n said in #9: > Actually, the recommendation in this new hot book: > > http://www.gambitbooks.com/books/Win_with_the_Caro-Kann.html What does the book have to say about this position? I just bou… | ericmsd |
| Game analysis - Lowest Average Centipawn Loss in 45+ move game (2 Centipawn)#2 That's 2 centipawns over the first 6 moves. ;) | ericmsd |
| Game analysis - If this was guess the elo, what would you say my elo is? Any tips on improving?#10 I'd have guessed 1200 club. Or 1500 here. Black had a winning advantage three times and blundered two of them. Luckily, white blundered 3 times. 12. ... b5?? White's pawn on c4 is weak. It's not easil… | ericmsd |
| Game analysis - Why are the 15th and 16th moves considered blunders ?#2 15. ... gxf5 is immediately threatening e4. It opens up the 6th rank for the rook to come over to either g6 or h6. The black queen is a threat to join the rook after Qd8. The knight on f3 will need to… | ericmsd |
| Game analysis - Best move here?#7 With the castle, the rook is free to move to the h file: Rdh8. Rooks belong connected. (Except when they don't.) | ericmsd |
| Game analysis - Why do I have a +8 advantage with only a minor piece up?#7 Because Stockfish is being very conservative. Lc0 gives you a +27 in this position. :) | ericmsd |
| Game analysis - London is boring#3 Don't judge the London by someone who plays 2 moves of it and then abandons its principles. :D 3. Nc3 was way premature. h3 would have been better in this position, in my opinion. (Why? It makes Nh5 f… | ericmsd |
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