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Maybe there's too many side discussions. Here was my "logic" (I may be using that term loosely). We take d4, he takes it back with his knight - you replied saying he wouldn't do that because of double pawns which I thought meant you were proposing that we take the knight next. If we did and he takes the bishop and gets the double pawns then if we moved c5 next it would allow him to play Ba3 and prevent us from castling.
I attempted to explain it above - I think I just misunderstood Tim and he wasn't saying to take the pinned knight after my proposed Nxd4.
Mario Board is at the office, so I'll use this one for now. Just backing up McGarnicle in case he can't keep up. From white's perspective
Yeah I think that's a given. Then are we in the middle game? Or is there opening book left?
Mmm, I think that's pretty much the conclusion of the opening. Not hard and fast, natch.
You mean we got through the opening without being at a disadvantage?
Well, *I* think so. In fact, I was looking at white's position with the IQP, trying to be unbiased, and thinking that it isn't really very strong.
Looks like e7, d6, or a5 are the options. Or take the knight on c3,
If Bd6 NxN and now we both have isolated pawns- advantage lost. If we retreat the bishop we need to recapture the NxN with our queen. So I think Bd6 is out.
Thats interesting, but after Bd7 then what? We're forced to trade everything, and white gets rid of his isolated pawn in the center.
on the other hand b4 would lead to Bb6 so maybe that's not to our disadvantage. Lets see what Bob and Joffer have to say: they're the ones more familiar with this position. For all I know this may still be book.
If we allow the creation of our own isolated pawn it negates everything we have attempted to do up to this point. I think one of the main reasons players at our level lose to players st Kaspy's level is that we're unable to maintain ideas- we react to his moves and give up our previous plans. We've already done that once in this game- our initial plan was controlling the e4 square. We gave that up for the even better plan of giving white an isolated pawn in the center of the board which will give us a decisive advantage in the endgame IF WE CAN GET THERE. Everything we do at this point needs to be based on maintaining that pawn in the center and trying to reach the endgame.
One statement that sticks with me from the video: pinning the knight tells your opponent you're willing to give up the bishop pair in exchange for early position/development. I personally never pin the knight early like we did here, because maybe I overvalue bishops. But the point is, the philosophy behind this opening includes potentially trading the bishop for his knight. At least that's how I understand it.
But that was in order to get doubled pawns. That's gone now.
We'll wait. Bd6 is a book move but we should know the ideas behind it.
Please explain your thinking thanks.
