Part OMGUS vote
Part the fact you suggested lynching in the first place.
Hm...actually Qe2->Nd5 doesn't sound too bad. I'll have to reconsider that.Pesco47 wrote:Qe2 pins whatever black moves into the way when we follow up with Nd5. Black taking the pawn in response was fairly predictable, that should give us an indication of who is scum by the level of their moves
I think we have some good responses to Qe7 if black decides to do that. That play doesn't really worry me much.Pesco47 wrote:A bishop pin is too slow. The open column gives initiative to whoever calls check first. If black does, we'll be a move behind because we spend a move running instead of developing. I intend to follow with Nd5 next turn for more attacking power. Depending on what their response to that is, we bring the fN into the attack too or bring out the cB to open up 0-0-0.
If they trade Queens, then we don't need to worry about out Bishop being stuck. If they place a Bishop there, I don't think Qe3 is too much to play at some point, for the sake on keeping their Bishop unpinned abd liberating ours.Goatrevolt wrote:Hm...actually Qe2->Nd5 doesn't sound too bad. I'll have to reconsider that.Pesco47 wrote:Qe2 pins whatever black moves into the way when we follow up with Nd5. Black taking the pawn in response was fairly predictable, that should give us an indication of who is scum by the level of their moves
Black really doesn't have any solutions for getting rid of that knight at d5. Then again, by trapping in our bishop, we don't have a whole lot of options for putting on additional pressure either...
I still think Bc4 is probably best, because we can always still do Qe2 (or Re1 depending on how things go) and follow with Nd5 later on, but we get our bishop out first.
Plus symbolizes Check.sirdanilot wrote:vote: Bc4
Moving the queen to e2 (why is that written as Qe2+ ? What does the plus mean?) blocks our bishop so we're better off moving the bishop first, then we can consider the queen move.
Oh, just realized I'm parroting goatrevolt here. Anyway, Bc4 is the best move right now so we should do it I guess. White's doing rather well so far, in my opinion.
Really? I think that Black's best answer to 6. Qe2+ is 6. ...Qe7, which leads to 7. Qxe7+ Bxe7. Black would be idiotic to let us pin their Bishop imo.Indigo Heron wrote:@SensFan (Sorry, I was typing out my post, didn't saw yours): Unfortunately, I don't think that even Black will be as idiotic as to play 6. ...Qe7. Refer back to one of my previous posts (#113, I think).
EH...thanks to you, I saw another route for White to take. If Black plays Qe7, White plays Nb5 (not take their Queen), which could be dangerous for Black. However, Black could simply play Kd8...so once again, I'm still got my mind made up on this one.SensFan wrote:Really? I think that Black's best answer to 6. Qe2+ is 6. ...Qe7, which leads to 7. Qxe7+ Bxe7. Black would be idiotic to let us pin their Bishop imo.