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Voting CLOSED Until 7pm

Today's Suggested Moves have been posted, and the voting polls will open Monday, 7 August @7PM EDT and close at Tuesday, 8 August @12AM EDT (Monday 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!

Remember to check back even if you've already cast your vote! .. there's still some disagreement between potential moves .. and analysis will most likely continue up until Sunday night when the polls close. It's also not too late to submit a vote for another move that has not been evaluated yet .. (although it looks like we have most of the best move options available, people can always miss things).

• (very) Rough draft of the Fabuloso Chess Edit Guide is now up and located here

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Strategy Discussion

Contents 1 Voting CLOSED Until 7pm 1.1 Voting Instructions 2 Strategy Discussion 3 Suggested Move Summary 3.1 Rxa2 3.2 Nxe4

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: Rxa2

Suggested Position Suggested Move: Nxe4

Suggested Position Suggested Move: UPDATE THIS

Rxa2

• Say goodnight, good knight. MalteseFalcon 13:12, 7 August 2006 (PDT)
  • What is Ze's response to this? Qb1 forks our rook and our pawn, no? PTWhipplebang^SR! 13:52, 7 August 2006 (PDT)
  • Yeah, I was about to say, something like 29. Qb1 Rf2 30. Qxb6 and then our bishop is threatened and we can't mount an attack along the diagonal? JudiciousH
    • That doesn't sound optimal for us. PTWhipplebang^SR! 13:56, 7 August 2006 (PDT)
  • What about 29. Qb1 Rxa4 30. Qxb6 Rb4 31. Qxb4 axb4 ? Nevermind. I forgot about his pawn there. PTWhipplebang^SR! 13:59, 7 August 2006 (PDT)
    • Wouldn't Ze play cxb4 instead of Qxb4? MalteseFalcon 14:01, 7 August 2006 (PDT)

Nxe4

Continue with our original plan. If he moves BxN, I think we can move in with Qh6, right? PTWhipplebang^SR! 13:28, 7 August 2006 (PDT)

• Hmmm, I don't see Qh6 as a winning response, we wouldn't be any closer to a mate and we'd be giving him material. I'm pretty blind though. What line were you thinking with Qh6? arc
  • I'm honestly not sure. I think I posted without thinking enough about it. I'm not sure that moving our rook to take his knight is the best idea either, although we may get a pawn or two out of it as well. PTWhipplebang^SR! 13:43, 7 August 2006 (PDT)
    • This line is nice because if he doesn't respond to the knight he can be mated pretty quickly. Rxa2 looks nice, patz had some arguments against it thought that lose us some tempo and put on defense for awhile, but we still pick up some nice material. For this one, I'm trying to figure out how things might progress after BxN in a positive direction. QxB is okay and then we can follow with Bxd, but I'm expecting there is a better response, since I am pretty sure we can't mate with the B, R, and Q in that position. We can Rx his pawn which should lead something nice for us though. - arc
• Yeah, I thought it'd be QxB at that point, with our next move hopefully being our bishop taking d5. JudiciousH
  • That makes a lot more sense. I still don't know what I was thinking. PTWhipplebang^SR! 13:49, 7 August 2006 (PDT)