You are totaly right!That was what I tried to say all the time.To be objective is difficult,if you have only your opinion.Sometimes I realize that some of the members here even dont look at the posts and try to convince someone with just their opinion.
E.g. if someone dont belive in the Bpg he just say everything against it not to accept the facts.I hope for the future that everyone can discuss here without fearing to become an ... only because he has a different opinion.
Also in my opinion it is not right to use instead of
me or
I ,
us and
we.This has the intention to present your own opinion as if it is the opinion of all the members here.
OK may I close this topic and go on with the Bpg?(Maybe this discussion is important and can be continued at the folder "Discussion")
"Sure, but I still don't see a satisfactory antidote against White's plan Nd2-b1-c3-d5. That knight is very strong there; it makes castling queenside for Black almost equal to suicide. If Black castles kingside White's progress will be slower, but once again the question will arise: were will Black's counterplay come from?"Well,I think you overestimate the plan with Nd5 .To bring this Night to d5 White has
1. to waste time to drive the Bishop away,that he cant take this Night
2. White has to cover the c4 pawn and last but not least
3.he has to bring his Night to c3 and then to d5.
Black can use this time to get counterplay.
OK here is a game played by a very strong player in my chessclub who play the Bpg for a long time and often analyze ideas for black with me.I dont want to show you the whole game,because black won it in an unimportant endgame,but I think the opening was really instructive.
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 Ng4 4. Bf4 Nc6 5. Nf3 Bb4+ 6. Nbd2 Qe7 7. e3 Ncxe5 8.Nxe5 Nxe5 9. Be2 d6 10. O-O Bd7
11. Nb1 Qe6!
(I think I can give this move an exclamation mark,because this move looks to me unusual ,but effective) 12.a3 The first part of the plan is to drive the Bishop away Ba5 13. b4 Bb6
14.Qb3second part of the plan is to cover the c4 pawn Ng6!Black has no intention to castle now he want to attak on the KS,because white has to support the QS-pawns and lost a little bit of his center-control 15. Bg3
h5 16. h4 Ne7!
with the intention not only to make his g-pawn moveable ,but also to bring his Night on the strong square f5 17. Nc3Now the last part of the plan Nf5 18. Nd5 Nxg3 19. fxg3
Bc6suddanly it appears that black will give up his Bishoppair for the Night which had to fight itself all the way to d5 20.Kh2 Bxd5 21. cxd5 Qe5 =
Black now has the better pawnstructure ,but with the different lightened Bishops white can hold the position easily with a good positional knowledge(That means e.g not to exchange too much peaces...).
Well I think that the variation with 4.Bf4 is playable for black,if black knows the ideas and moves like Qe6.What I am worry about is the line with 4.Nf3
If someone has some questions left to the line 4.Bf4 please post it,otherwise I would like to analyze the 4.Nf3 line.