I see that people find ways of getting around the “annoy” clause.
I’m supposed to be doing other things, but I glanced at the postition and I can see that it’s worse than I thought… quite a gordian knot.
…if I start looking at it now I’ll never get anything done. Thank you for such an excellent lesson.
Steady development. Is it an opening or a middlegame? Probably a middlegame - but it doesn’t matter.
White trusts that a slight lead in development and a majority of pawns on the Queenside be enough advantage to win.
Yes, it’s started doing that to me on XP as well. It doesn’t really seem to take all that long if you click to let the link keep loading.
That seems to be the price we pay for getting the interactive editor loading - it doesn’t immediately lay out the current position, it has to ‘play through’ the entire game so far to catch up. So that will take longer and longer as we go. I’ll keep posting wizard links every now and then, but for the time being:
This may be the first time in the game (not counting RxQ) when I accurately predicted your move. I sometimes become too focused on area surrounding the pieces I’m moving and forget about subtle developmental moves or feel like I have to attack or defend RIGHT NOW! and can’t waste time… I’m wishing I had done a better job developing my Q-Side pieces!
If you fianchetto your bishop you’ll end up ciechi.
In a more serious sense, I have to admit that I didn’t think I would get this far in the game. I wouldn’t be in this position if I hadn’t asked what to do.
I think I should be developing my Rooks. I have seen really good chess games and I often have a hard time understanding what Masters are doing in Rook moves.
I think it would be good to counter your Rook on the d-file and put some pressure on your dark square bishop. I think moving the a-file Rook would interfere with the movement of the other Rook, so…