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Jeffrey van Vliet vs John J Cox
Amsterdam Chess Tournament (2006), Amsterdam NED, rd 3, Jul-17
French Defense: Advance Variation (C02)  ·  1/2-1/2

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White to move.
ANALYSIS [x]
1/2-1/2

rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1
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May-15-13  Robin01: White's move of 7.Qd3 makes a lot of sense. It forces the knight back to b8 (now black only has his queen developed), and it also develops white's queen. After 7…Nb8, white has a good lead in development, so I would think that this would be a good position for white. Yet there are not too many games in this line. I wonder why that is? Can anyone offer an explanation? Thanks.
May-15-13  Nerwal: A good lead in development - well, since the position is closed, it's not especially relevant. For the same reason the loss of time involved by ♘b8 is not so important - putting the pieces on the right squares is more important than tempo play. If white plays 0-0 first instead of ♕d3, then the only alternative plan for black is c5 and ♘c7, but then the ♘ is not very well placed on c7 and has no prospect there. This is an entirely different story in the Botvinnik variation of the Nimzo-indian ( see the line played in Agrest vs N Mitkov, 1999, for instance ) : here the position is not as closed, and after c5 black can re-route the ♘ to a good square with ♘c7-e6, so white usually forces ♘b8 or ♕c8 with ♕d3 before castling.

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