Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +-
Mark DvoretskyIt is hardly useful if you trustingly play through variation after variation from a book. It is a great deal more useful and more interesting if you take part actively in the analysis, find something yourself, and try to refute some of the author's conclusions.
Mark DvoretskyI do not know to whom the aphorism 'There are no sound studies, only ones that haven't been busted yet' belongs, but it has measure of truth in it.
Mark DvoretskyAs a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.
Mark Dvoretsky