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Questions About the Right Plan in One of My Games

January 31st, 2011 petrs

Last week I played the following game in a team competition. I had white pieces and we played the French opening. After playing several moves we reached the following position (white to play).

Here my troubles started. Why? Simply because I was not able to find a good plan how to play further.

I had an idea abour pressing on e6 pawn and playing on the king’s side, but it was probably a wrong plan. I decided to take e5 square – we played 13.Ne5 Bxe5 14.Rxe5 Re8.

At this moment I was quite satisfied with my position and I looked for a good continuation.

I saw 15.Qg4 and I also saw 15…. Re7 as the only answer.

But what now?

I started to feel that my previous plan was not right as I did not see any moves to make my pressure stronger.

So I played 16.Rb1 and after 16…. Nf6 17.Qd1 h6 I blundered 18.b4 cxb3 19.Nxb3 and the game was over.

The question is – was my plan right or there was another and better plan in the position of first diagram? What do you think? What would you play in that position?

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4 Responses to “Questions About the Right Plan in One of My Games”

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2. harikrishnasr says:

   January 31, 2011 at 6:56 pm

   quite honestly after looking at the position for a couple of minutes,with the kings on opposite sides,h5,g5,g4,h4 coming
   ur way,the position seems already quite difficult for white.e6 is a weakness
   but pressing it,i dont think helps.if i was playing the white side i would have tried b4 hoping for either an open b file or if he plays Nc6 launching all out with a4.
   if he captures cb3 play Rb1 and gain the pawn back and more importantly the open B file
   ensures some counterplay.
   CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG.
3. admin says:

   February 2, 2011 at 10:00 am

   Since pressing e6 pawn is not a good way (as I found out during the game :)), I would also focus on the queen side and try to think out something there next time. Playing b4 and open b-file is a good solution, I think.
4. mage3070 says:

   March 15, 2011 at 6:27 pm

   I like 13.b3

   If black doesn’t take the pawn, then his center is in bad shape.
   Whatever takes the pawn is pinned against the Queen by Rb1, and a fine attack
   ensues. It seems like a win-win to me.