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Drew posted an update
I’ve been trying to play the Owen’s defense and 7/10 games after I play e6 they respond with a3 to stop my bishop from pinning the knight. I’m sure this may have been asked on here before, but what is the best plan going forward since I can’t play the reccommended moves?
Marc-André D, Stuart and Andrew3 Comments-
t’s surprisingly rare I get to pin that knight and even if I do they can defend the pawn with the bishop. I’m looking forward to the rating climb but you’re mostly going to land in the exceptions sections of the other videos. I don’t bother to put the bishop in line with the king unless I can pin and that may be 25% of my games. For the most part you’re going to need another square for it. I’m not entirely happy with the Owens as even at low level you land in the exceptions all too often.
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I’m not sure if I’m allowed to direct you to someone else’s channel so I won’t say the name here but if you look up “black pieces speedrun” on Youtube, you can study a GM who went from 800 to 2300 using that exact opening. The same channel also has a run using the Stonewall and he explains the logic behind every move. It helped me a lot and I’m sure it would help you too ! 🙂
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@deroqc89gmail-com He’s snagging that pawn a lot more than I can. I frequently wind up with this or similar.
As for not mentioning other player feeds, that’s terribly counterproductive. Not in any rule I remember and real teachers want their students to use whatever resources help them.
One of the big things that I like about Nelson is he doesn’t trash talk other players especially low ranked ones. Not all the chess content does that but it’s pretty common.
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