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Tuesday, May 12, 2020

It is about thinking in Schemes or Stages

Schematic thinking in the manner espoused by Mikhail Shereshevsky entered my thought process in the following chess game played at the Internet Chess Club. The Minsk Belarus native believed that broad stroked plans in relatively plain language were vital to improving one's judgement and course of action.


US player GarrySacco, playing Black, quickly repeated the position and claimed a draw in the Blitzin/Dasher interface written by a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh. However, in a longer time control, could you list a step by step plan that would have won the game for White?

First observation is that the centralized Bishop is Dog Shit defending weak pawns at c5 and e5.
Second observation is that Black g3 pawn is subject to  ingestion by White King at f3 and White Knight at f1. This maneuver cannot be stopped due to the locked up fixed pawn structure which invariably favors Horses. 

Once the g3 foot soldier falls, White's g2 pawn is passed and will promote or force the second player to sac his anemic prelate for it. 

The plan involving swapping the locations of the c4 King with the d3 Knight are surprisingly not as effective!

Instructional chess book writers Raluca Sgîrcea, Renier Castellanos, Miles Ardaman produced a lucid exposition of the Bishop versus Knight confrontation. 

1 comment:

  1. Nice to see Garry Sacco as an active and strong online chess player!!

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