The opponents often try to destroy my fianchetto. Whaat can I do against it?
Is this a good position?
Is this a good position?
It's not really about the fianchetto. You're attacking the other guy with those pawns, so basically you're going all in. If you do that you're decreasing your king's safety for sure, but you're expecting that your opponent will end up worse. An uncommon thing you're doing is that you're trying to play on the queenside at the same time, and thus ended up with a liability on a4. If you hadn't played on the queenside at all, your kingside attack would have progressed further; that's usually how you want it to go in these attacks because you don't want to make it easy for the other guy to find counterplay on the queenside.
If you want to keep your fianchetto cozy then don't attack with your pawns like that. The standard elements of your kingside fianchetto are these:
1.- Knight on f6 and pawn on d6. The knight is in its best position and the pawn prevents the opponent from playing e4-e5, harassing the knight.
2.- Pawn on g6 and bishop on g7. Allegedly the bishop is gonna be pretty strong and safe in there.
3.- You castle kingside. You want to hit back in the center as soon as possible, so you protect your king and bring the rook into the game.
4.- You hit back in the center. Your preferred way is by playing e7-e5, but there's also c7-c5 if with that you can clear the diagonal for your bishop and attack the white queenside. There's also the maneuver c6 -> Qa5 -> e7-e5, where the queen supports the center and at the same time gets out of the d file because it's gonna open. Remember that you always have a pawn on d6 and that you absolutely need to hit back in the center soon.
Then when the other guy plays he may try to close the center and bank on his space advantage, and this is where you start playing flank stuff, and sometimes attacks like the one in your picture happen. You push on the kingside and he on the queenside, and it's kinda like a race where both are trying to build the optimal setup to push without allowing the other guy to lock pawns.
If you want to keep your fianchetto cozy then don't attack with your pawns like that. The standard elements of your kingside fianchetto are these:
1.- Knight on f6 and pawn on d6. The knight is in its best position and the pawn prevents the opponent from playing e4-e5, harassing the knight.
2.- Pawn on g6 and bishop on g7. Allegedly the bishop is gonna be pretty strong and safe in there.
3.- You castle kingside. You want to hit back in the center as soon as possible, so you protect your king and bring the rook into the game.
4.- You hit back in the center. Your preferred way is by playing e7-e5, but there's also c7-c5 if with that you can clear the diagonal for your bishop and attack the white queenside. There's also the maneuver c6 -> Qa5 -> e7-e5, where the queen supports the center and at the same time gets out of the d file because it's gonna open. Remember that you always have a pawn on d6 and that you absolutely need to hit back in the center soon.
Then when the other guy plays he may try to close the center and bank on his space advantage, and this is where you start playing flank stuff, and sometimes attacks like the one in your picture happen. You push on the kingside and he on the queenside, and it's kinda like a race where both are trying to build the optimal setup to push without allowing the other guy to lock pawns.
I think you're better off showing us one of your games with fianchetto and asking us to comment on it. The position is fine, but you won't be able to achieve something like that very often.
@JuicyChickenNO1 said in #2:
> 1.- Knight on f6 and pawn on d6. The knight is in its best position and the pawn prevents the opponent from playing e4-e5, harassing the knight.
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> 2.- Pawn on g6 and bishop on g7. Allegedly the bishop is gonna be pretty strong and safe in there.
Thank you very much for the long text, but the turns you describe have been played already in this game. This is a situation, after the fianchetto has been attacked a couple of time.
I should have written it before, but I thought, it was clear.
> 1.- Knight on f6 and pawn on d6. The knight is in its best position and the pawn prevents the opponent from playing e4-e5, harassing the knight.
>
> 2.- Pawn on g6 and bishop on g7. Allegedly the bishop is gonna be pretty strong and safe in there.
Thank you very much for the long text, but the turns you describe have been played already in this game. This is a situation, after the fianchetto has been attacked a couple of time.
I should have written it before, but I thought, it was clear.
@Frogster64 said in #3:
> I think you're better off showing us one of your games with fianchetto and asking us to comment on it. The position is fine, but you won't be able to achieve something like that very often.
Oh, thank you!!! Yes, I can send a game.
- Yeees, to come to this position was not easy, true, because of the e5 pawn, but I can try again or similar then.
> I think you're better off showing us one of your games with fianchetto and asking us to comment on it. The position is fine, but you won't be able to achieve something like that very often.
Oh, thank you!!! Yes, I can send a game.
- Yeees, to come to this position was not easy, true, because of the e5 pawn, but I can try again or similar then.
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I tried it in some games today, and ... it is true, that it is not easy to reach this position.
@itz-aryan-gupta24 said in #6:
> Playing this position with stockfish will be an amazing idea ................... hm , according to me , i guess that white has a material advantage , so white can easily sacrifice a piece to break your pawn structure ........... and white has all pieces attacking towards your king , it will be deadly for black then !!!
When a pawn structure is opened, it means not in all cases, that the situation is hopeless.
> Playing this position with stockfish will be an amazing idea ................... hm , according to me , i guess that white has a material advantage , so white can easily sacrifice a piece to break your pawn structure ........... and white has all pieces attacking towards your king , it will be deadly for black then !!!
When a pawn structure is opened, it means not in all cases, that the situation is hopeless.