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C10: Nc6 instead of c5 any good against Nc3? (Read 4611 times)

saubhikr Senior Member Offline Chess is a cruel game but I still love it Posts: 332 Location: Milwaukee, WI, USA Joined: 10/29/06 Gender:	Re: Nc6 instead of c5 any good against Nc3? Reply #5 - 06/29/08 at 13:02:21	Post Tools	Print Post
	I play this consistently. The only losses are when White takes on d5 and I overstepped in an attempt to sharpen the game. Highy playable.


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flaviddude Senior Member Offline I love ChessPublishing.com! Posts: 329 Location: Australia Joined: 01/12/04 Gender:	Re: Nc6 instead of c5 any good against Nc3? Reply #4 - 06/25/08 at 13:21:14	Post Tools	Print Post
	I played it in the Club Championship as a shock weapon and it worked really well. A Fide master coaches my opponent and she plays the bishop b5 stuff against the Sicilian.

	I am hopelessly addicted to the King's Gambit
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linksspringer Senior Member Offline Posts: 376 Joined: 09/25/07	Re: Nc6 instead of c5 any good against Nc3? Reply #3 - 06/24/08 at 21:27:32	Post Tools	Print Post
	Karel van der Weide - A French Nimzowitsch - Secrets of Opening Surprises Volume 3 John Watson - Swearing in church - Dangerous Weapons : The French Christoph Wisnewski - Play 1...Nc6! (chapter 4) Timoshenko - Nimzowitsch Variation 3...Nc6 - FR 4.1 - NIC Yearbook 87 And of course excellent coverage by Neil McDonald in the French Defence Chess Publishing section
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ghenghisclown God Member Offline Pedicare Vestri Latin Posts: 1022 Location: HollyWeird Joined: 07/19/06 Gender:	Re: Nc6 instead of c5 any good against Nc3? Reply #2 - 06/24/08 at 20:45:55	Post Tools	Print Post
	I forgot to say that I hapen to think castling queenside is the way to go in this line, in my opinion anyway.

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ghenghisclown God Member Offline Pedicare Vestri Latin Posts: 1022 Location: HollyWeird Joined: 07/19/06 Gender:	Re: Nc6 instead of c5 any good against Nc3? Reply #1 - 06/24/08 at 20:40:04	Post Tools	Print Post
	It seems to me you ought to worry less about the opening and more about middlegame tactics. Because the theory is less worked out here, in my opinion, things like the Bishop on d3 hitting h7 matter more. If you look at the Guimard (3.Nd2 Nc6) or this, the HR (Nc3 Nc6) games you will see that Black has to be good at calculation and keep a level head as he could very easily enter a tactical domain. Look at the games Philippe-Bricard Noyon, France 2008 OR Rasmussen-Brynell (a player I like) Ballerup 2008. I think you will see that because the theory is still somewhat undeveloped, you'll have to make up your own mind as to what kind of weaknesses you can live with and what to do about them, and how to get active play. It's worth noting that instead of Bricard's 9...Be7, Watson prefers Bxb4.

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