Casper v
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Casper v posted an update a year ago
Hi Nelson,
Really enjoying the course so far. One question: with the Owen defence you say that people most of the time go for a strong center with pawns on e4 and d4. However, in all the games that I tried this defence, my opponent (rating 1100-1200) played pawn to d3 after I played bishop to b7. How do you deal with this? I think you…
DanaDieska2 Comments-
To make it more clear: they first push their king pawn to e4 and after I play pawn to b6, they never go for pawn to d4. They first go for a knight or bishop movement and after my bishop to b7 they play pawn to d3.
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They nice thing about the Owen’s is that even if they don’t follow the exact moves we discussed, you can usually do well with following a similar way of developing your pieces. For example, b6, Bb7, e6, Nf6, Bb4 (if knight is on c3 and if not then Be7, 0-0 and then probably strike at the center with d5. Just keep the main concepts and ideas…
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