17 Nov 08
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17 Nov 08
Originally posted by robbie carrobieI won't touch the Milner Barry (Bd3) as white, but it is a long long ways from unplayable, especially OTB. Black can safely take the first pawn, but if he takes the second, beware. White will have the more active and developed pieces for the pawn, ergo it's very hard to call it an unsound gambit.
actually a decent player of the french defense should have noted that in the advance variation white cannot post his bishop on the wonderful d3 square, no siree, not after 5...Bd7, tis not advisable, for if he does then he must reckon with losing a pawn, for example
1.e4 e6, 2.d4 d5, 3.e5 c5, 4.c3 Nc6, 5.Nf3 Bd7! , 6.Bb5 ?! loses a pawn like noth ...[text shortened]... lack has some tricks of his own, but the pawns trap makes Wile E Coyote look downright innocent!
Greenpawn:
Excellent trap, I've never understood when dxc is good in the advance (for white) and when not. Then again, I avoid the 5. Qb6 lines most of the time.
