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Richard posted an update

a year ago

I’ve been playing the chess.com 1600 bot trying to get a handle on the Owens before taking on a real game. The engine almost always defends the week pawn on e4 with bd3. It almost never brings out the night to c3 to pin. The bots 4’th move is usually bg5, preventing my queens pawn push. I know the average player won’t make these moves, but I’m not sure I saw a strategy for what to do if this happens. When I walk through with the engine, the game from that point is super defensive for black. Any suggestions?

Richard, Andrew and Ryan

2 Comments
- Nelson
  
  If you can’t go Bb4 (because there’s no knight on c3 to attack) then that bishop usually goes to e7 instead. Then you can castle kingside and usually strike at the center with either d5 or c5 depending on what white is doing.
  
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- Richard
  
  Thanks Nelson! I’ve won the last 4 games I’ve played using the Owens and the Stonewall. My rating is 550-580 and my opponents mostly didn’t know how to handle them and resigned once I got a positional advantage or they blundered. However, I got checkmate on the last, which was a great game.
  
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