FICGS - Wikichess - Article 8907

the normal continuation..

White plan include the exchange of the white square bishop for black's queen knight, b3 Bb2, d3, Ne5 + Nd2-f3-g5....

Altought, this is white's dream, it do not always happen.

lasker had the habit of playing Bd3 when black take long to develop the queen knight and let black scrap his pawn structure. In fact here, white became black and fight for equality.

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Contributors : Gerard Gonet, Luc-Olivier Leclerc

[ECO "A03"] [Opening "Bird's Opening"]

Nc6 : 8 games, White ELO av : 1625, Black ELO av : 1599
1-0 : 37.5% , 1/2-1/2 : 0% , 0-1 : 62.5%

Nf6 : 3 games, White ELO av : 1369, Black ELO av : 1376
1-0 : 33.3% , 1/2-1/2 : 0% , 0-1 : 66.7%

g6 : 2 games, White ELO av : 1575, Black ELO av : 1831
1-0 : 0% , 1/2-1/2 : 50% , 0-1 : 50%

Bg4 : 1 game, White ELO av : 1287, Black ELO av : 835
1-0 : 0% , 1/2-1/2 : 0% , 0-1 : 100%

a6 : 1 game, White ELO av : 1800, Black ELO av : 1501
1-0 : 0% , 1/2-1/2 : 0% , 0-1 : 100%

f6 : 1 game, White ELO av : 1506, Black ELO av : 1501
1-0 : 0% , 1/2-1/2 : 0% , 0-1 : 100%

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