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NIC1138
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Chessnadgo played 11w Eb5e Hc4s Md3s Ec5w. Retreated horse and camel.
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NIC1138
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Re: Move 11
« Reply #1 on: Aug 15th, 2007, 9:42pm » |
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Here is one move suggestion... 11b ed4w ec4w Hc3n md6e. The idea is to threaten the horse. I like moving the camel to threaten the other horse, but other idea would be to set up a horse frame, with 11b ed4w ec4w Hc3n dd8s perhaps.
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Janzert
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Re: Move 11
« Reply #2 on: Aug 15th, 2007, 9:43pm » |
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11b ed4w ec4w Hc3n xxxx ?
Or does that leave the e to decentralized?
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Re: Move 11
« Reply #3 on: Aug 15th, 2007, 10:27pm » |
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How about 11b ed4s ed3e ee3w De2n?
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UruramTururam
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Re: Move 11
« Reply #4 on: Aug 16th, 2007, 2:05am » |
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I am afraid that moving the elephant two steps right makes it less mobile than it should be.
I'd suggest: 11b ed4w ec4n Hc3n md6e
Still threatening the horse
Limiting movement possibilities of the golden elephant
Switching our camel to the left wing
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Re: Move 11
« Reply #5 on: Aug 16th, 2007, 4:33am » |
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on Aug 16th, 2007, 2:05am, UruramTururam wrote:I am afraid that moving the elephant two steps right makes it less mobile than it should be.
I'd suggest: 11b ed4w ec4n Hc3n md6e
Still threatening the horse
Limiting movement possibilities of the golden elephant
Switching our camel to the left wing
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Very good suggestion - I didn´t even consider this move after looking about two minutes at the position, now is clearly my number 1.
Now my preferences are:
I) 11b ed4w ec4n Hc3n md6e
II) 11b ed4w ec4w Hc3n md6e
III) 11b ed4w ec4w Hc3n dd8s (new last step)
IV) 11b hb6w rb7w cc7w md6n (completely new)
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Fritzlein
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Re: Move 11
« Reply #6 on: Aug 16th, 2007, 8:48am » |
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Wow, it's great to see the suggestions and discussion get started so quickly. It fits my schedule to begin the voting at GMT 01:00 Tuesday, August 21 and end voting at GMT 11:00 Wednesday, August 22. That will gain back 12 hours of reserve for the Mob.
General thoughts about the position: by retreating on his last couple of moves, chessandgo has given up any credible EMH or EH attack, so the game has reverted to a dual-lone-elephant opening. His advantage in a DLE is being closer to rabbit pull. Our advantage is that his dog on b3 and horse on c3 are misplaced.
I like the idea behind 11b ed4w ec4w Hc3n dd8s, because I want to threaten his horse, but 11w Eb5e Ec5e Ed5w md6s seems to leave us in trouble.
The idea from 11b ed4w ec4n Hc3n xxxx of leaving our elephant more centralized is strategically sound, but I'm tactically afraid of 11w Eb5w hb6s hb5s Ea5e. Trading our well-placed horse for chessandgo's misplaced horse seems to convert our small advantage into a small disadvantage, because after a horse trade his currently misplaced dog would suddenly be in perfect position. Alternatively 11w hb6e Eb5n Eb6s rb7s seems to leave us no way to exploit the horse we pulled.
My suggestion along the lines NIC and Janzert were thinking, but with a different 4th step:
11b ed4w ec4w Hc3n md6n
When we were trying to stop the EH attack it made sense to activate our camel. Now that there is no EH attack, our advanced camel is mostly a target for his lone elephant, so we retreat it. Meanwhile our other three steps threaten to exploit his poorly placed dog and horse.
I haven't worked out a lot of lines, but intuitively we are winning. Our patience seems to be paying off.
Summarizing the game so far from my perspective:
1) We threatened to take a small lead in the DLE race, thus provoking chessandgo into a premature EH attack
2) Our threats to chessandgo's exposed pieces forced his elephant out of its preferred spot between our traps.
3) Chessandgo tried to retain H & M activity without conceding any disadvantage, but with his elephant decentralized and camel exposed, he couldn't find a good attacking continuation. Our well-placed defensive camel subtly repelled his advances.
4) After chessandgo's retreat the DLE race has been restored, but with chessandgo's horse and dog catywumpus, giving us a small but clear advantage.
I expect the blood-and-guts style players are disappointed with the "boring" play so far, but it tickles me pink to accumulate advantages so small that, when the other player finally realizes he's at a disadvantage, he can't think of any mistake he made or any move on which he went wrong. That's when you know you didn't out-calculate your opponent, you just made better choices positionally.
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Re: Move 11
« Reply #7 on: Aug 16th, 2007, 2:18pm » |
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on Aug 16th, 2007, 8:48am, Fritzlein wrote:
My suggestion along the lines NIC and Janzert were thinking, but with a different 4th step:
11b ed4w ec4w Hc3n md6n
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Possible responses:
12w Eb5e hb6s Hc4s xxxx (Db3s?)
12w Eb5w hb6s hb5e Ea5e [Chessandgo's horse is moved to the east side on the following move, and it's generally not strong to have both horses on the same side.]
12w Eb5e Hc4s Ec5s Db3s [Leads to a rabbit pull for us at cost of a decentralized elephant.]
And after these moves there are more lines to examine. I think this move keeps an advantage for us, but we must be careful so that the game doesn't equalize.
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Fritzlein
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Re: Move 11
« Reply #8 on: Aug 16th, 2007, 4:29pm » |
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on Aug 15th, 2007, 10:27pm, mdk wrote:| How about 11b ed4s ed3e ee3w De2n? |
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This is a somewhat sharp suggestion; compared to other lines it needs more calculation and less strategic judgment. Can chessandgo afford to ignore the threat and pull a rabbit? What if he flips our horse? What if he pulls our horse with two steps and retreats his dog with the other two? I'd like to see you lobby for this move by giving some variations. If you can refute chessandgo's racing responses, then this move could gain tempo by forcing him to defend.
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Re: Move 11
« Reply #9 on: Aug 16th, 2007, 4:54pm » |
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ed4w ec4w hb6w rb7w
Once again I want to get a rabbit pull happening and prevent him from doing the same.
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mdk
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Re: Move 11
« Reply #10 on: Aug 16th, 2007, 6:13pm » |
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on Aug 16th, 2007, 4:29pm, Fritzlein wrote:
This is a somewhat sharp suggestion; compared to other lines it needs more calculation and less strategic judgment. Can chessandgo afford to ignore the threat and pull a rabbit? What if he flips our horse? What if he pulls our horse with two steps and retreats his dog with the other two? I'd like to see you lobby for this move by giving some variations. If you can refute chessandgo's racing responses, then this move could gain tempo by forcing him to defend. |
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If I properly remember the analysis i did prior to suggesting this move chessandgo cannot pull the rabbit although i would have to spend some time in order to go through the possible lines of play. I'll try and work on this when I get back from visiting Princeton late Friday evening as I probably won't have a chance before then.
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Re: Move 11
« Reply #11 on: Aug 16th, 2007, 7:41pm » |
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on Aug 15th, 2007, 10:27pm, mdk wrote:| How about 11b ed4s ed3e ee3w De2n? |
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A) Pull the rabbit
12w hb6e Eb5n Eb6s rb7s
13b De3n ed3e De4n ee3n
I dont think gold can safely pull the rabbit.
B) Flip the dog
12w Eb5e hb6s hb5s Ec5w
13b De3n ed3e De4n ee3n
This looks good for silver too.
C) Retreat the dog and also do something else
12w Md2e De3e Db3s Hc3w
To me this looks OK for gold, but maybe there is still some possibilty for silver?
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Fritzlein
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Re: Move 11
« Reply #12 on: Aug 16th, 2007, 10:15pm » |
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JDB mentioned to me in chat that he was looking at 11b hg6e hh6s hh5s hh4s, so I thought I would throw it into the mix for discussion here.
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Re: Move 11
« Reply #13 on: Aug 17th, 2007, 8:19am » |
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on Aug 16th, 2007, 4:54pm, 99of9 wrote:ed4w ec4w hb6w rb7w
Once again I want to get a rabbit pull happening and prevent him from doing the same. |
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Are you worried that he might pull our camel instead of engaging the race to pull a rabbit first? My instinct is that if he goes after a piece rather than a rabbit, ultimately our elephant will be forced to defend that rather than pulling something of its own, but maybe it works out tactically in our favor in this case.
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Re: Move 11
« Reply #14 on: Aug 17th, 2007, 8:47am » |
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No, I'm not really worried. In the worst case we have to use our elephant, in the best case we don't. It's not a major problem if we do, but I don't see it coming soon:
11b ed4w ec4w hb6w rb7w
12w Eb5e Ec5e Ed5w md6s
12b dd8s dd7s md5e me5n
13w Ec5e Ed5e Ee5w me6s
13b ce7s me5e mf5n dd6n
14w Ed5e Ee5e Ef5w mf6s
14b hg6s mf5n mf6e hg5e
One thing we have up our sleeve is that we are threatening the dog, so he can't settle for attacking our cat at any stage, because he doesn't want a cD trade.
I'm happy to try to answer variations if you are worried about this.
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