General Chess Discussion - BISHOP#4 Well, it depends. That's the best answer you can get. If you have no light squared bishop but have a lot of white squares behind or around your pawns, then you might have problems because you can't pr… | GreenPhoennix |
Game analysis - french defense trying to trade off bad bishop#6 As I said, PLENTY of salt :) Thanks @tpr Also, I wasn't saying cxd4 was early HERE. Quite the opposite, if that wasn't clear. Personally, I would look at it like this: if you play Nc6, your opponent h… | GreenPhoennix |
Game analysis - french defense trying to trade off bad bishop#4 I play the French and normally I find there are many more useful things you could be doing instead of trading off the bishop as it's normally released later in the game anyways. The position, however,… | GreenPhoennix |
Game analysis - Is King's gambit really an inaccuracy#3 Kings gambit has been proven to be a draw after exf4. The only drawing move is Be2. However, that's no reason not to play it! Also, your opponent really misplayed the KG although I'm no expert myself.… | GreenPhoennix |
Game analysis - I am so confused#2 I think he just got really frustrated after blundering the first or second time he essentially gave up :) I normally prefer entering the benoni via Nf6 and e6. Maybe its worth checking out if Stockfis… | GreenPhoennix |
General Chess Discussion - Playing my first OTB tournament. Any advice?#7 Do your thing. My first OTB tournament, I blundered in the black side of an exchange French (not that I knew it was drawish) before going in to win my next two ganes (total of three). So, pay attentio… | GreenPhoennix |
Lichess Feedback - [feature-request] Seirawan Chess#2 I would actually be really interested in this too. Yasser did some nice videos on Youtube about Seirawan chess | GreenPhoennix |
General Chess Discussion - So, you're a player somewhere around 1400 and you're looking for advice...#2 Strongly recommend this!! Paul's an amazing, dedicated teacher :) | GreenPhoennix |
General Chess Discussion - What top GMs play the French defense?#3 From Wikipedia: "More recently, its leading practitioners include Evgeny Bareev, Alexey Dreev, Mikhail Gurevich, Alexander Khalifman, Smbat Lputian, Alexander Morozevich, Teimour Radjabov, Nigel Short… | GreenPhoennix |
General Chess Discussion - Valencia Opening#5 Any opening in bullet works, so that's not really impressive... In any decent time control game I would expect to be crushed but it all comes down to how black handles the middlegame.... | GreenPhoennix |
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