Answers.Body: <p>While the computer says it is still roughly equal, I would MUCH rather play black here.</p>
  
  <p>After whatever move white makes, black will play Qf6 and e5 in the next two moves, and then I like the central pawns after Re8 (assuming white tries to hold them up at all, he will have to attack e5) and then f4. Later, black will also have the potential for playing against the white king with Rg8, h4, and eventually pushing the center forward creating real threats against the white king. White has no active plan to counter this.</p>
  
  <p>This brings up an often-overlooked point that Tal clearly understood, and that is that there are practical problems in chess that go beyond analysis at home (now with computers). In this position, black has not even sacrificed anything, and it may well be equal between two computers, but this position is very difficult in practice for white.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>This position is not easy to assess. </p>
  
  <p>Indeed, white has a rook, but black has a bishop and two pawns for it, which is roughly equal material-wise.</p>
  
  <p>Also there are no open files, so white's rook do not have a straightforward way to enter black's position. The best white could currently do is to try to create counterplay against the pawn on e6 and create a blockade on the dark squares, preventing black from advancing the pawns. Since black does not have a dark squared bishop that should be reasonably easy to achieve. </p>
  
  <p>As a long term plan, white can transfer his king to the queenside (e.g. to b2) and open some lines with g4, which does seem somewhat dangerous for black.</p>
  
  <p>Still I think black is doing perfectly fine so far as the position is still closed, there are potential threats against g2 and the pawns are ready to run.</p>
  
  <p>Overall I'd say the position is roughly equal (but interesting!).</p>
  
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Body: <p>I was in a three%day turn bame, I played almost played a line that would have led me to this position. Black’s central pawns seem to be an advantage, although White being up the exchange scared me. Who has the advantage in this position, and why?</p>
  
  <p>It is White’s turn.
  <img src="https://i.sstatic.net/koT9C.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
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Comments.Text: No extra rook here. This is known as "exchange up".
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Comments.Text: In fact it is a rook for a bishop and two pawns, which is roughly equal as far as material is concerned.
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Comments.Text: I know that it has balanced material.  I did not express myself correctly. I will modify later.
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Tags: <strategy><positional-play><advantage>
Title: Who has the advantage in this position?
ThreadText: # Who has the advantage in this position?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2018-02-16)
  
  I was in a three%day turn bame, I played almost played a line that would have led me to this position. Black’s central pawns seem to be an advantage, although White being up the exchange scared me. Who has the advantage in this position, and why?
  
  It is White’s turn.
  ![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/koT9C.png)
  
  **Tags:** strategy, positional-play, advantage
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: No extra rook here. This is known as "exchange up".  
  > **username_2**: In fact it is a rook for a bishop and two pawns, which is roughly equal as far as material is concerned.  
  > **username_0**: I know that it has balanced material.  I did not express myself correctly. I will modify later.  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2018-02-16. Score: 9 | Accepted answer
  
  This position is not easy to assess.
  
  Indeed, white has a rook, but black has a bishop and two pawns for it, which is roughly equal material-wise.
  
  Also there are no open files, so white's rook do not have a straightforward way to enter black's position. The best white could currently do is to try to create counterplay against the pawn on e6 and create a blockade on the dark squares, preventing black from advancing the pawns. Since black does not have a dark squared bishop that should be reasonably easy to achieve.
  
  As a long term plan, white can transfer his king to the queenside (e.g. to b2) and open some lines with g4, which does seem somewhat dangerous for black.
  
  Still I think black is doing perfectly fine so far as the position is still closed, there are potential threats against g2 and the pawns are ready to run.
  
  Overall I'd say the position is roughly equal (but interesting!).
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2019-09-13. Score: 2
  
  While the computer says it is still roughly equal, I would MUCH rather play black here.
  
  After whatever move white makes, black will play Qf6 and e5 in the next two moves, and then I like the central pawns after Re8 (assuming white tries to hold them up at all, he will have to attack e5) and then f4. Later, black will also have the potential for playing against the white king with Rg8, h4, and eventually pushing the center forward creating real threats against the white king. White has no active plan to counter this.
  
  This brings up an often-overlooked point that Tal clearly understood, and that is that there are practical problems in chess that go beyond analysis at home (now with computers). In this position, black has not even sacrificed anything, and it may well be equal between two computers, but this position is very difficult in practice for white.
  
  
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