This is my third attempt to analyze a knight vs. bishop position and formulate a good plan using Silman's guidelines from his book, "The Amateur's Mind". I am mostly focusing on the minor piece imbalances but am trying to take all of Silman's Imbalances into consideration.
Edit for blog carnival:
Chessbase's material finder is great for finding positions like this to work through. One just needs to understand the search parameters (easy really!) to adjust the search. When searching for positions like this I suggest searching for a particular player as well. This will keep your search results from being to unwieldy. For more info on Material searches in Chessbase check out these tutorials from Steve Lopez. Lopez explains this better than I will!! Material searches are also great for finding endgame studies!!
Back to the position at hand:
Once again I get the basic gist of the correct plan but blow it tactically! I need to look at ALL possibilities.
Smyslov's handling of the position is great! (and is included in the board below)
Strategy position 3.pgn
I hope you enjoy the position. Have a great weekend!
It seems to me that Black should have taken the e-pawn and traded a rook, rather than Rxa2. You only have to look so far as ..Nb7 to reject the Rxa2 plan since the Nxb3 should have been the goal.
ReplyDeleteBlack could play ..Rd7 instead of RxRe6, but then Rxb6, and if instead ..Rxb4, then Re8+, Re1-e7+ wins the Nb7. Reshevsky probably chose the wrong plan right before time-control with mere seconds on his clock. When one does that, it's easy to be too optimistic about the position.
It is fun and intriguing to try to figure out these positions. :-)
Hey Linuxguy!
ReplyDeleteI agree that positions like this are super fun! I think they are going to help me grow as a chess player and they also make it more fun to go over complete games as I am SLOWLY starting to see some of these things in Fischer-Spassky Match book.