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Voting CLOSED Until 7pm

Today's Suggested Moves have been posted, and the voting polls will open Thursday, August 3^rd @7PM EDT and close at Friday, August 4^th 12AM EDT (INSERT NEXT DAY Night), in order to give time for enough deliberation before the votes are cast. Don't have a username/Id yet? Get one here! and take some credit for your contributions!

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Strategy Discussion

Contents 1 Voting CLOSED Until 7pm 2 Strategy Discussion 3 Suggested Move Summary 3.1 cxd6 3.2 Qxd6

Please take the time to familiarize yourself with some common middlegame tactics as well.

Also, please don't be too hesitant to suggest your own move in this section. Just use * to begin a line and add your idea, even if you aren't familiar with notation, or don't feel comfortable updating the boards/suggestions yourself, there are plenty of us that will be more than willing to set them up for you (and keep everything organized) ßrigade^rant

Suggested Move Summary

Suggested Position Suggested Move: cxd6

Suggested Position Suggested Move: qxd6

Suggested Position Suggested Move: Bxd5

cxd6

• According to yesterday, this is the only move. V 12:43, 3 August 2006 (PDT)
• Any other move wouldn't male much sense. It's too soon to initiate the queen fork and exchange and we need to get rid of that threat.Funky citrus 12:48, 3 August 2006 (PDT)
• the only other move that makes any kind of sense to me is QxB, but it seems intuitively obvious that the queen is far more powerfull on the king side than stuck behind those center pawns. Kingpatzer 12:49, 3 August 2006 (PDT)
• wait a tick, the queen exchange doesn't exist anymore. That bishop took out our knight.
  • That's why we'll try and play Nc5 on our next move. V 12:56, 3 August 2006 (PDT)

Qxd6

• this is playable, but not as good in my mind as cxd6 Kingpatzer 12:51, 3 August 2006 (PDT)
• ANALYSIS: 26. .. Qxd6 27. Rf1 Qc5 28. Rxf2 Qxf2 29. h3 -- white is a pawn down in an inferior position . And is still going to have trouble untangling his pieces. But there's no immediately winning threats on the board for black. Kingpatzer 12:56, 3 August 2006 (PDT)