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Chess Game

[Event "Quick"]
[Site "SLCC"]
[Date "Apr 19, 2014"]
[Round "2"]
[White "John Coffey"]
[Black "Catalini"]
[Result "0-1"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 c6 5. Bg5 Be7 6. e3 O-O 7. Bd3 dxc4 8. Bxc4
b5 9. Bd3 a6 10. O-O Nbd7 11. Qe2 Bb7 12. Rac1 Re8 13. e4 Rc8 14. e5 Nd5 15.
Ne4 Bxg5 16. Nexg5 h6 17. Nh3 c5 18. Rfd1 c4 19. Bb1 Qb6 20. Nd2 f5 21. exf6
N7xf6 22. Ne4 Nxe4 23. Qxe4 Nf6 24. Qg6 Qc6 25. Nf4 Rcd8 26. f3 e5 27. d5 Qb6+
28. Kh1 exf4 29. Bf5 Qd6
0-1

Chess Game

[Event "Quick"]
[Site "SLCC"]
[Date "Apr 19, 2014"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Aaron Case"]
[Black "John Coffey"]
[Result "0-1"]

1. e4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. d4 Nf6 5. c4 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 Qe7+ 7. Be2 O-O 8.
O-O Re8 9. Re1 Be6 10. cxd5 Nxd5 11. a3 Bd6 12. Bc4 Qd7 13. Qb3 Nc6 14. Bxd5
Bxd5 15. Qd1 Bxf3 16. Qxf3 Nxd4 17. Qd3 Ne2+ 18. Kh1 Nf4 19. Qf1 Rxe1 20. Qxe1
Re8
0-1

Colle System opening

The thing about almost any opening where one plays pawn to king three (e3 as white or e6 as black), there is the problem of what to do with the Queen’s bishop.   What it takes is patience.   You know that the bishop is not going to get deployed right away, but it temporarily serves a purpose to protect the queenside, and eventually we will find a place to put that bishop, especially if later the king pawn moves again, which it often does.   Or the queen’s bishop could end up on queen knight two.

 

On the other hand, in the French opening it is often useful to put the Queen’s bishop on d7, mostly to get out of the way of the rook that wants to go to c8.    Sometimes that bishop will eventually make its way to b5 or a4, or more rarely it will go to e8 and if the f pawn moves then somewhere to f7, g6 or h5.