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- Welcome to Critical Positions #1
White to move
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White to move
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White to move
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- White is better off.
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- In this position after much thought,
- White
- chose to castle.
QUIZ:
What - is wrong with castling?
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- The problem with castling is after
- O-O Nxc2!, Qxc2 Qd4+
- forking the king and bishop. Even if
- black misses the
- combo, consider that O-O Be6 compells
- white to move
- the bishop because if Qd3? Bxc4, Qxc4
- Nxc2.
QUIZ:
What is a better move?
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- Fritz likes Qd3. Although I
- consdiered this move,
- it didn't make sense to me at the
- time. What it
- does is protect the bishop and
- prepares for O-O-O.
- I like casting queenside in this
- position because
- it guards c2 and
- I can bring both rooks to the center
- quickly to
- back up my passed pawn. In addition
- I am not
- compelled to move the bishop if Black
- plays Be6.
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- I played Bd7 and Black errs with d3.
- I played the
- tricky b4, but this is not the best
- move.
Quiz:
- How should White play here?
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- Since Black didn't chase the bishop
- away with Rf7, now
- the pawn advance can't be stopped.
- White can give up
- a bishop and a pawn for a rook,
- although the endgame
- remains tricky after that.
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