tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8556305125957341024.post3607016175341251339..comments2024-02-22T13:53:00.516-05:00Comments on Elizabeth Spiegel's blog: am team east, rd 5: no rossilimo but a pseudo-zwischenzugElizabeth Vicaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04880561980096775673noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8556305125957341024.post-86867388495475140322009-02-19T20:13:00.000-05:002009-02-19T20:13:00.000-05:00Thanks for the suggestions, they're great and v us...Thanks for the suggestions, they're great and v useful, please keep them coming!Elizabeth Vicaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04880561980096775673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8556305125957341024.post-71963938124255472002009-02-19T14:56:00.000-05:002009-02-19T14:56:00.000-05:00Great posts!Seems to me White paid too high a pric...Great posts!<BR/><BR/>Seems to me White paid too high a price to keep the bishop pair with 13.b3. Black got a lot of mileage out of the weak c3 square. What about this instead: allow ...Nc4 Bxc4 Rxc4, then swap dark squared bishops, play d4-d5, and post a knight on d4. If b7 moves, play Nc6. If e7 moves, capture and hammer the d6 square.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8556305125957341024.post-91907567405160114592009-02-18T23:23:00.000-05:002009-02-18T23:23:00.000-05:00Didn't you consider 12.e5 (i.e., one move before y...Didn't you consider 12.e5 (i.e., one move before you played it in the game)? Especially if you wished to play e5 anyway, why not do it when it forces his N back to e8? Not to mention avoiding all the time you spent dealing with the consequences of 13.e5 b4. And there's the added bonus that should Black answer 12.e5, dxe5?, it looks to me like he then loses a piece to Rad1 due to his d7-bishop being pinned.<BR/><BR/>My personal rule is, always be looking at possibilities of central aggression....especially when you're playing White.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8556305125957341024.post-28142062970487146052009-02-18T20:04:00.000-05:002009-02-18T20:04:00.000-05:00thanks!we were called "madoff with your pieces"thanks!<BR/><BR/>we were called "madoff with your pieces"Elizabeth Vicaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04880561980096775673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8556305125957341024.post-80367941752107601862009-02-18T19:58:00.000-05:002009-02-18T19:58:00.000-05:00I'm sorry if I missed it but what did your team na...I'm sorry if I missed it but what did your team name turn out to be?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8556305125957341024.post-6841760252651539912009-02-18T19:37:00.000-05:002009-02-18T19:37:00.000-05:00Really nice post. :-)I enjoy this style of comment...Really nice post. :-)<BR/><BR/>I enjoy this style of commentary. Probably helps that you're in a good mood about the games, rather than cursing poor play.<BR/><BR/>Can see this game + comments being useful as a sort of "how to handle random, nothing special middlegames by a decent player" lesson. I found it always hard to teach people how to just play and not always want something to happen (sure enough.. as soon as you did that, something certainly happened, but it wasn't nice).<BR/><BR/>I don't know if you get much feedback on the annotated games of your own that you post here, but please keep doing so. I like reading through them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com