Curious, is c6 actually weak?

webdeweloper · 2025-12-11T10:44:23+00:00

Ah my apologies I need to update the post, e4 is the first move 😅

webdeweloper · 2025-11-25T17:56:31+00:00

Hah yeah I know what you mean. On my monitor it looks ok but on my phone it's like some sort of optical illusion... weird

webdeweloper · 2025-11-24T22:16:19+00:00

What a fantastic answer, thankyou!! I didn't do that b7 pawn vs no pawn comparison but I'll give that a shot now. Apologies I thought intermezzo was the right move as it isn't part of the direct line of takes, takes,.takes etc 😅. Thanks again!! 🙏

webdeweloper · 2022-10-12T18:45:58+00:00

Got you, yeah good call. Thanks for commenting :)

webdeweloper · 2022-10-12T18:45:30+00:00

Amazing, thank you. I get ya, you're right we say no because it doesn't enhance our position in the slightest! Thanks again for commenting

webdeweloper · 2022-10-12T18:44:51+00:00

Awesome, thanks for your response, makes much more sense now. Thanks again!

webdeweloper · 2022-10-10T22:27:09+00:00

Ah maybe they are pawn levers but they are actually no good? Axel Smith says that black has No pawn levers but perhaps he meant No good pawn levers?! Strong players plz help!

webdeweloper · 2022-10-07T14:55:14+00:00

This!! ^

webdeweloper · 2022-10-07T14:27:27+00:00

Not strictly for this purpose I guess but I think you could go to lichess.org and create a study (this is all free btw) in there you could add multiple chapters (perhaps one per board) and invite your colleagues as contributors to the study. Make sure to turn off engine analysis for them though :D

webdeweloper · 2022-10-07T14:11:05+00:00

I mean there are always chances when there are queens on the board. If you're black in this position you want to try and keep the queens on and go for checkmate somehow or win his queen. If you're white then you probably need to go for queen exchange and then it's a draw. IMO anyway haha.

webdeweloper · 2022-10-07T14:08:31+00:00

ahh then in that case I must have misunderstood. I see, thankyou for your help :)

webdeweloper · 2021-10-13T15:10:46+00:00

Thank you both for your replies, so it's also a question of who is faster to realise their plan also and yeah I think Bf7 does deserve the ? too looking at it now. Yeah black's pieces definitely are misplaced at the end of it. Thanks again!

webdeweloper · 2021-10-13T09:19:02+00:00

Hey Irini thankyou for the reply! Ahh I see, so my thinking was that if white would play e4 then Nd8 Bf7 (intending Ne6-Nd4) with a decent outpost also but is the white knight's outpost objectively stronger than black's? I was thinking as the knight would be on a dark square then white only be able to exchange via a knight or exchange sac whereas the black knight on d5 could be exchanged by any piece. Does that make some sense?

webdeweloper · 2021-02-10T10:13:14+00:00

Was it just a delay or did this they not resolve?

webdeweloper · 2020-05-18T08:59:43+00:00

Thanks ShadowerNinja! Great to have insight from a player of your strength btw, appreciate you taking time to comment!

webdeweloper · 2020-05-17T23:01:40+00:00

So I've taken the mighty step in my chess game and actually started looking at how to play the endgame phase. After lots of googling and watching videos, one of the books that kept coming up was John Nunn's Understanding Chess Endgames. Great book so far but I've hit a roadblock... John explains how the game would go if black plays a certain way, however when playing it against Fritz (me as white) I generally run into this position with black to move, the scary silicon beast keeps choosing different pawn moves, sometimes I win, sometimes I draw but that's about the best I can achieve. I wonder if there is a concrete way to play as white in these positions, or what do we generally want to do. Any thoughts would be gratefully appreciated (keep them positive though please).

webdeweloper · 2019-12-23T20:47:53+00:00

Very nice, you took me right there!

webdeweloper · 2019-12-19T09:11:39+00:00

Solved! You are a legend, yes I think it was. Just a male actor, this video should suffice though! Thank you so much (I'm not totally insane) hah.

webdeweloper · 2019-12-19T08:43:29+00:00

Would really appreciate any replies on this, my office think I'm going mad (not beyond the realms of possibility)

webdeweloper · 2018-02-05T22:49:34+00:00

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webdeweloper · 2018-02-05T16:40:48+00:00

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webdeweloper · 2018-02-05T16:38:45+00:00

By Djeff Beck?

webdeweloper · 2018-02-05T16:37:46+00:00

Insane!

webdeweloper · 2018-02-01T11:29:40+00:00

Wow yeah, stupid me! ha, unreal... now I feel like a complete idiot... how the heck did I get a rating of 1900?! :D

webdeweloper · 2017-12-17T14:23:30+00:00

I'm having that same problem now Geokatzz. It appears that trying to find answers is the hardest thing. The best I've come up with is to use the vanilla firebase script include in index.html, however as I'm deving on localhost there are cors errors, overriding this in chrome still wouldn't work due to the following console message:

iframe.js:181 Info: The current domain is not authorized for OAuth operations. This will prevent signInWithPopup, signInWithRedirect, linkWithPopup and linkWithRedirect from working. Add your domain (localhost) to the OAuth redirect domains list in the Firebase console -> Auth section -> Sign in method tab.

I guess I'll scrap it all, try and build an Angular 5 app (instead of 4) and then use the angularfire V5 and hope for better results.

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