They are at the beginning of the game... But as the game progresses they may become "weak" depending on how the position is. Generally speaking a "weak" or "bad" bishop is a bishop which mobility has been crippled - often by ones owns pawns... in the position above my pawns are on the same squares as this particular bishop which decreases it's mobility... Sure i can move it to h4 and later to g3 if necessary... but it still a bishop with very few options... i thought it better to trade it off... (i think it's calculated to in this opening)

Make any sense?   

Can't read the books myself, it's my ADD kicking in... Btw, what do you mean by your 'weak' bishop? I thought they were both pretty much the same?

I knew there had to be some kind of drawback in annotating a game :-)

But please be comforted that i just today received a new chessbook called "how to reassess your chess" - that should do the trick, don't you think ;-)

/Kaj

That's pretty cool Kaj. Now I know how you think, I can devastate you effortlessly. lol