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Kasparov on his 6th move has castled, giving us the following position:-
Barnet chess club has used technology now to reveal our key options and their related statistics:-
1) 122 games from the above position have been obtained from the cool ChessLab.com site.
2) Using ChessBase, these games will now be merged together to produce a game tree!
The statistical results
| Move candidate | Number of games (/122) | Average rating of players involved | 1-0 | 1/2 | 0-1 |
| 7..g6 | 69 | 2556 | 47% | 40% | 11% |
| 7..e6 | 35 | 2440 | 24% | 48% | 27% |
| 7..Ne5 | 10 | 2464 | 20% | 70% | 10% |
| 7..Nd4 | 5 | 2440 | 20% | 80% | 0 |
| 7..e5 | 2 | - | 50% | 50% | 0 |
| 7..a6 | 1 | - | 100% | 0 | 0 |
Our main candidate moves seem to be :-
(Barnet chess club's hackers suggesting the wild pawn sacrifice/pawn giveaway
g5??!! will be ignored)
7...e6
7...g6
7...Ne5
Let us explore each of these in turn:-
7..e6
This solid looking move is not as popular as g6 statistically.
Barnet chess club members think that White has a slight but lasting edge because for example Kasparov can simply fianchetto the queen's bishop.
With this theme, there are 4 recorded games which the International master Tkachiev has played. The most brutal of these was against the English player William Watson. Tkachiev played the following illustrated plan:-
The game ended brilliantly with Tkachiev sacrificing his queen on h7, and setting up an unavoidable mate!
7...g6
This move aims to go into a dragon type formation. We have the comfort of knowing however that White cannot castle queenside now, and rip us to pieces with an h-file attack!
We can have the benefits of the dark square pressurization, without worrying too much about our king safety.
Earlier analysis becomes relevant again, for example if Kasparov plays d3, he could have the plans of h3, Be3, Qd2, followed by Bh6. Or alternatively he could play d3 with the idea of Rb1, b4 peeling open the b file.
7...Ne5
An interesting move which was discussed previously. If white captured the knight, Black would have pressure on White's backward d pawn on a semi-open file.
There are 122 game examples if you click on the combo-box of the following page to get the games with 0-0. These encapsulate 7...Nd4, 7...e5, 7...a6
A more focused browser on our main three possibilities is the following:-
Java Browser of 7..e6, 7..g6, 7..Ne5 possibilities
Conclusions
Barnet chess club recommends 7..g6 going for a "dragon" like setup. The "dragon" is so named, because the pawn formation resembles a dragon, with the fire coming out potentially by the draconian bishop on g7! As an added bonus, to this attractive setup, we don't have to worry about White castling queenside now, and ripping us to pieces on the h-file!
