I've always kind of liked chess but never bothered to git gud. I recently downloaded a chess app to have something free to pick up and play in short stretches of idle time.
I'm just playing against a basic starter level AI so this isn't anything extraordinary, but I felt like chatting about it and I figure at least a handful of users here are into chess.
Here's my board right now. Black to move. Can we just discuss this board state for a minute?
Up until this point I've been making a deliberate point to not consider my moves super deeply and just kinda see where my instincts get me. But this is the first move where I'm like hmmm let's take a bit to consider.
A few things:
- I feel like black has a stronger position here because rooks are already aligned and pawns are more consolidated. Is that a valid take?
- Most "obvious" move that jumps out to my instinctive play is rook to g1. Then white either trades rooks, pinning its knight, or moves rook to d2, also pinning its knight.
- White's D pawn...I'm kind of fine with it being in the D file because it's inhibiting the white rooks in a way. Does that stance make sense?
Is something with the pawns or knight better than pressuring with the rook? Does rook to D8 have some merit?
As black, where do you go from here?
Knight to c6 imo
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