| General Chess Discussion - FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss Riga Recap - Rounds 7 to 11, and the Tal Memorial Blitz#19 how did carlsen qualifie for the candidates at 14? | jackymichel |
| General Chess Discussion - Preventing e4 in the queen's indian is sometimes impossible!#14 @T3SC said in #13: > > Well the idea of c5-b6 is to shutdown the queenside while i can still develop my pieces to the squares that i intended and i think that if white did not had fianchetto his light… | jackymichel |
| General Chess Discussion - Preventing e4 in the queen's indian is sometimes impossible!#12 Nevermind 8..e5 seems to be completely fine according to stockfisch.. c5, though, is indeed quite dubious, because you are not developped enough to make your control of the d4 square a relevant factor… | jackymichel |
| General Chess Discussion - Preventing e4 in the queen's indian is sometimes impossible!#11 I'm not sure that playing e5 so quickly without much preparation was the best you could do. Also the idea of playing c5 and b6 , neglecting your queenside development, strikes me as extremely optimist… | jackymichel |
| General Chess Discussion - Preventing e4 in the queen's indian is sometimes impossible!#7 After 2.Nc3, to me the most logical looks to be 2...e5 or 2...c5. I don't think you can get a proper queen's indian from this move order because as you said you can't control the e4 square fast enough… | jackymichel |