Hi I'm new here and a bit of a novice when it comes to chess, anyway I'll skip to the point. I was playing a game with a friend (I'm white my friend is black) and we had to stop at this point so who would you say was winning in this position, its black to move. I think black has a slight advantage, his pawns re in better positions for an endgame and he has more spce to move. However I think I have quite a nice flank attack going, although it isn't very subtle and considering the position a few moves ago I think I'm doing quite a good job getting my pieces that were inactive into the game in some way. Anyway who would you say has the advantage here and by how much? Thanks.

I think white is doing well enough to constitute a white advantage.

First of all, black's queen is in a bit of a pickle and probably should be unpickled by a move like Rb6 or Qa8 (not sure about the latter move). White has nice ideas here, Nc4, f4 e5 are in the making and things like Qd3, Bf3 and Be4.
As for black's queenside, I don't think that'll be going anywhere. He might play up the e-pawn at some point, but that's about it. I don't think black can do much more (at this point) than react to white's plan, maneuver the queen out of the way, after f4 move the bishop, put a rook on d8 and try to hold. Which I think would a realistic, in practice.

Thanks Perseus, I was going to post some of the plans that I had but the poistion has since moved on so I will post this instead.

I think he is doing better than before, as I tried an attack on the centre to lure him into some nasty tactics but he didn't fall for them and so although the attack kind of working in taking the centre, it forced all his pieces towards the flank I was attacking, which isn't helpful. It also made a few of his pieces, like the bishop, which was been useless before move into useful positions by attacking the centre which is annoying. Anyway what do you think of this new position?
Well stuff happened so here is the new, completely different position, white to move:

Your FEN-position says it's white to move. I'm having a little trouble believing that. Rc7 would be lethal in that case. If on the other hand it's black to move here, it looks like a (to be) solid advantage that could have arisen from when last I saw the game. 1. ... Rc6 2. Rxc6 Qxc6 3. Rxa5 with very decent winning chances.. at any rate, the current state of things:


Black is dead. White can take with Nxd4 or play Bc4, it matters little, this ending should be won by white. Have fun with it.

Yeah well I won, he began to give up towards the end and made silly mistakes. Basicly there was 3/4 events in a row where we had an exchange or something and I would end a point up, eventually this gave me quite a big advantage, here is the final position:

He knew I would win for a while but he just gave up at this point (it was his move). I think that there was just too many things that could go wrong for him after my last move of e6 and couldn't be bothered to check for all the possible traps when he had no chance of winning. Anyway on the second position I think it was blacks move but he just did h6 to protect from what he saw as an iminent attack on his h-pawn (I personally think this was a silly move as I think an attack on the h-pawn would have failed). Anyway on my move and I think I did Rc7, it was good but hardly seemed lethal, am I missing something?
It seems silly me posting all these positions without a game so I'll try and remember the moves and post them later.