What's up with the white bisshop of white?
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What's up with the white bisshop of white?| irW |
Posted: Jun 14 2009, 08:12 AM
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Hi,
For some reason in many chess video they keep on pointing out that the white bisshop is very important for the white player. Is there a special reason for this or has it something to do with obvious pawn positioning? |
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| thefourthhorseman |
Posted: Jun 14 2009, 11:20 AM
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my guess is that the black king is at a white square, even after 0-0 or after 0-0-0...
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| eendavid |
Posted: Jun 14 2009, 04:19 PM
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The reason that is mentioned a lot is that the f7 pawn is one of black's weaknesses. So white likes to keep the white bisshop to put pressure on this pawn. As Rob said, after king-side castling it is really nice if white can conquer the a2-g7 line with his bisshop. Of course the white bisshop is not valuable in every game (think about a closed game for example), but in some games the white bisshop can be worth a lot because of this.
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| drinkeh |
Posted: Jun 14 2009, 06:33 PM
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I never really stood still on this one, but I like the logic applied above. It's not that the light squared is necessarily more important or better than the dark squared (or the other way around for black), however in the more common openings and the following up positions it usually gets to play a bigger role, also giving us the impression we tend to miss it more often. It seems to me this'll be especially the case in open games, starting with e4 e5 for instance.
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| DisasterMaster |
Posted: Jul 30 2009, 11:40 AM
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i heard about that too... but it is not so important, i keep only same bishop as oponents fianchated bish. anyways if u lose light bishop u wont neceserily lose..
i heard many about : KID keep blacks dark bishop, Ruy Lopez or ITALIAN keep whites light bish., Sicilian white keep dark bish at least or both if possible, CARO KANN keep dark bishop ............ |
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