perhaps try the halloween attack; Four knights game then nxe5?! .
It gives white lots of tactical chances, and total dominance of the centre. which you have to exploit to make up the knight. I played it loads for a few months, cm8000 is interesting here- it ususally wins as white if playing itself, and very elegantly, providing it doesn't swap queens. Weaker computers collapse against it to.
It's not strong, can be refuted, but is very good practice for ' aggressive chess' in sacrificing your way to victory.. funny we say aggressive but in 1900 it was called romantic. maybe look at Blackburne and Aderssen. ( esp Anderssen attacking 0-0)
Think the point about being machine like not aggressive is good...
I notice John Nunn gets some quick wins with the pirc defense... like that style to. 🙂
EDIT .... no spell checker at the mo 🙁
I've had a look at Halloween's Gambit, the problem is that I just don't have the tenacity to follow it up.
and in any case, that position is the type that makes me wanna curl up in a little ball and defend myself. This happens whenever I see a position where my positions is in total shambles (doubled pawns and empty files everywhere) whereas my opponent seems to almost be unaffected.
I guess in the Halloween's, that's the effect you're looking for, but another problem is that no one I know plays four knights
Originally posted by banx99Hi
I finding that one of my major problems in play is that I'm not aggressive enough.
This is starting to get irritating especially for my partner in bughouse when I have the opportunity to put a lot of pressure on the opponent but fail to do so.
Is there any direct way to increase my chess aggressiveness?
Well what do you want to be, good at Bughouse or good at Chess?
Take advice about opening, endings etc but you are what you
are as far as style is concerned.
And there is nothing wrong with being a cautious chess player,
over time you will understand more about the game than
the two move trick merchants (me included).
Sounds like you are just out of practice and need to get use
to reading the 64 squares again.
So I played over a few games. Was expecting to see Mr. Timid not
putting pieces in his opponents half of the board and swapping
off pieces before the position got 'too tricky'.
Instead I found this. How much more aggression do you want?
The next step up from this game is blind frothing raging mad fury.
You were White.
7.Qb3 swinging back into the Morphy game was better.
It wins the g8 Knight as 7...Nh6 8.Bxh6 gxh6 is mate in 2.
and 7...Ne7 8.Bf7+ Kd7 9.Qe6 is mate.
Originally posted by greenpawn34Ah yes,a clear case of overcaution.Nice find GP.
Hi
Well what do you want to be, good at Bughouse or good at Chess?
Take advice about opening, endings etc but you are what you
are as far as style is concerned.
And there is nothing wrong with being a cautious chess player,
over time you will understand more about the game than
the two moves trick merchants (me included).
Sounds like yo ...[text shortened]... 4xc4 9. Qf3h5 Qc4f7 10. Qh5xe5 Ke8d7 11. Qe5d4 Kd7e8 12. Qd4d8[/pgn]
Like I said,I don't understand where this idea of banx99 lacking aggression comes from.Puzzling.... 😕
Those games that you were referring to was back when I still did have a sense of agression.
After my short break of a few months, I've crawled back into my shell and starting closing up my positions.
The problem is that also with those type of positions, I can see the attack myself. In other positions, I just don't have the intuition to start attacking and would rather defend myself.
EDIT: Just realised the game that GP posted was recent but most of my other 'aggressive' games were before that my break