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Originally Posted by scandium
This game, before the blunder, wound up being a little cramped  Not usual in the closed Ruy variants though.
Would have been a good opportunity with the blocked center to unleash the King's side infantry in a King's Indian style attack, perhaps. :hmm: |
I had considered it, but it then opens up the road for a bishop/queen combination on the d8-h4 diagonal. With my king already without mobility, Torp's black bishop accessible on d6 and his white bishop already camping in the neighborhood, mate would have been a real threat. I had committed my forces to play on the queeside. To redeploy would have cost tempi that I could not spare.
I suspect that my admission of distaste for closed positions made my opponent immediatley persue such a course.