The Chess Mind

By Dennis Monokroussos.
This is a blog for chess fans by a chess fan, one who loves the beauty of the game and wants to share it with those who are like-minded.
Yet the chess mind is not only a chess mind, and other topics, such as philosophy, may appear from time to time. All material copyrighted.
An Analysis Exercise from a Club Game
At the local club tonight, one of the players handed me the scoresheet from a game he played on Tuesday. I didn't look too much at the game as a whole, but one position grabbed my attention in a sustained way, and I spent 20-30 minutes analyzing it. This was the position in the game after White's 12th move:



I don't recall what Black actually did, but it wasn't 12...f4. I haven't checked any of my analysis with the computer - and I'm not going to, either, until I've really spent a lot of time on it - and I in turn won't "contaminate" your thinking by presenting it. So chew on the position for a while (but no analytical comments yet, please), and in a few days we'll discuss it.

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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on Thursday March 6, 2008 at 11:49pm
Ken (mail):
For those with Fritz11, this looks like a good position in which to use the calculation training feature, where you can make moves with your mouse but nothing on the board moves till you tell Fritz to evaluate your moves.
3.7.2008 2:42pm