Steven Pope

One of the things I like to use in business is an acronym system as well, and that is CHAD.

So CHAD stands for Checkmate or Check, Hanging Piece, that's like a piece that's not guarded, Attack, Defend, and Develop.

And so he is doing a good job of developing out of his pieces.

It's going to be harder for me to develop my pieces because there's a lot more of a closed aspect.

He controls the center a little bit better.

So as this game goes on, his D4 pawn will be weaker, and I'm going to be attacking it to hopefully get an advantage.

But between now and then, he has more space to work with.

And in business, which I'm making this up as I go along, you have to be able to figure out what you want to control, what your objective is.

So with this pawn kick out, I now have to make a decision.

Do I want to trade and exchange my dark-colored bishop, knowing that I'm going to have a hard time taking d4 without it?

Or do I pull the bishop back and allow him to push the b-pawn up,

which then becomes kind of a brawl.

I'm going to go with the passive strategy because I really want to hit D4 later.

This move right here decides the middle game.

So when we're thinking about business aspects, we have now made a choice that will dictate the rest of the game.

And I am going to probably put a little bit more pressure on the C rank before I continue developing my board here.

On the king side, that is, before I castle.

And I knew he was going to push the B4 pawn.

That is expected.

But I think this is a questionable move here, but I think I can get away with playing my bishop to B6.