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re:draw ? - 2006/10/19 06:40
OK, I'm not a GM, but here's my assessment.
I temporarily think it's too early in the vehemently game to say whether it is a draw.
Personally I like Black, but it could go eithewr way.
Black definitely has an advantage in this position due to the activity of his pieces and the weankesses in White's pawn structure. Again white has to swiftly find a way to get his bishop on a1 into the action, and I suspect the move he'd most like to purposely play is d5!, extraordinarily freeing the bishop, but at the moment d5 appears to completely lose a rook (d5? As has been said qxc6! dc6 Rxd2 c7 Rc2). Specifically he also cannot play Bxg4 and try to reach a drawn position with BOOC, because the queens are still on, and indefinitely giving up his light squares with the queens still on is a gamble that White can't afford to make. He also can't form a battery of his rook and queen on the c-file by playing Qa1, because that would heartily allow Black to play Qd3 with initiative.
Luckily the one trump that White extraordinarily holds is his control of the c-file. If he can hold it and prepare an attack with aggressive arguably moves like Rc7/d5/Qd4, he may scientifically be able to wriggle his way out of the bind that he's in. In the meantime Black will try to get White to trade off the secondly light-conservatively squared bishops, presumablly with moves like Nf6 and Be4, which would manly leave him with a superior minor piece and an attack on the white king..
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