tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21716553.post4623664174698942238..comments2024-01-29T10:45:34.227-08:00Comments on Robert Pearson's Chess Blog: Gelfand-Markowski Revisited, or: Who Do You Trust?Robert Pearsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01357942424904415208noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21716553.post-34192101575385271252009-03-04T19:18:00.000-08:002009-03-04T19:18:00.000-08:00Great post - this is part of what draws us back to...Great post - this is part of what draws us back to chess again and again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21716553.post-73434123449883722822009-03-04T12:49:00.000-08:002009-03-04T12:49:00.000-08:00HiI would have played 1.e5 because it seems to mak...Hi<BR/><BR/>I would have played 1.e5 because it seems to make the most sense.<BR/><BR/>I guess I was looking for ways to make White's pieces active and sac'ing the pawn does just that as White can easily hop the Knight onto e4 if dxe5 and the attack down the d-file is incredibly strong.<BR/><BR/>my logic is that by tying Black down to the defence of the Knight and thus the defence of the Bishop (tanchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10248501580728956514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21716553.post-67956772635072433042009-03-04T09:35:00.000-08:002009-03-04T09:35:00.000-08:00After 12+ minutes and 20 ply of brute force analys...After 12+ minutes and 20 ply of brute force analysis, Rybka gives<BR/><BR/>1.e5 +0.12<BR/>1.c5 -0.05<BR/>1.Rd2 -0.08<BR/><BR/>Considering that engines tend to overweigh material, we should feel confident that White has ample compensation after 1.e5.<BR/><BR/>True, in the second diagram, Rybka prefers Black by -0.37. However, she considers most of White's earlier moves in that line to be Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21716553.post-60069968605530126232009-03-04T06:26:00.000-08:002009-03-04T06:26:00.000-08:00I looked at both 1. c5 and 1. e5 and after some co...I looked at both 1. c5 and 1. e5 and after some consideration my choice was 1. e5 because 1. c5 seems to just throw away a pawn after 1. c5 dxc5 2. bxc5 Nxc5 while 1. e5 might do the same but the pluspion will be a loose pawn that will have black's pieces occupied to defend it.From the patzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04499383398575774704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21716553.post-82220234974170551322009-03-04T04:41:00.000-08:002009-03-04T04:41:00.000-08:00These kinds of positions reveal how unrefined my c...These kinds of positions reveal how unrefined my chess sense is.<BR/><BR/>I probably would have considered e5, but not c5.<BR/><BR/>I keep seeing Black's d6 pawn defended only once and I feel compelled to double up the rooks and take that lonely d6 pawn. I also see White's g3 & b4 pawns are undefended and that worries me. But I also take comfort that Black still has to develop his rockyrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04244111671544689660noreply@blogger.com