I mean seriously, is winning chess as simple as doing nothing but kingside attacks with peices? Seriously, I often lose games to opponents who wimply post their queen in front of my wall of castled pawns and maneuver knights around among the kingside vecenity. Many times, chasing their peices out makes things worse, for example, if they plunk a knight on g6, and I play h7, things get worse, but leaving the knight there makes things even worse. So, is chess really as simple as plunking queens and knights along the g file and crossing your fingers? It seems no matter how hard I think, I cannot find a defense to this game plan, and many times when I analyze such games and it's my move, I'm like, "nope, can't do that, lose material" like a zillion times to some tactic, or another tactic, or another, EVERY move.
Right now I'm losing to a 1200 rated player and a 1400 rated player who did just that, players I shouldn't lose to, and I'm not learning much from these games either. Sure, I made a few not so great moves like everyone, but white's moves were kinda obvious and any chimpanzee could spot them and do these attacks. I can't help but feel black is a hopeless colour because there's nothing black can seriously do if white wants to shift his queen and knights to the g file, it's not like you can stop a maneuverable peices like queens and knights from geting there early if they wish, or is all this a black downside if he decides not to fianchetto his king's bishop?
I mean seriously, a lot of players beat me by puting a queen on a g file, should I simply be doing the same?
As you suggest..............if it's so simply as you say why don't you do the same and stop with these crappy whinings?
Put the queen on the g file and beat those patzers you're losing from,easy no?
Or maybe the real problem is that you lose because of your own mistakes?
If they beat you playing poorly,this means that you played even more poorly than them.
Originally posted by mateuloseIf your opponents attacks are so obvious, why don't you just forestall them? Put troops on your kingside, trade of some pieces, sac pawns for a better position, etc.
I mean seriously, is winning chess as simple as doing nothing but kingside attacks with peices? Seriously, I often lose games to opponents who wimply post their queen in front of my wall of castled pawns and maneuver knights around among the kingside vecenity. Many times, chasing their peices out makes things worse, for example, if they plunk a knight on g ...[text shortened]... usly, a lot of players beat me by puting a queen on a g file, should I simply be doing the same?
Originally posted by mateuloseI've said it time and time and time again....Learn to stop your opponant's counterplay.
I mean seriously, is winning chess as simple as doing nothing but kingside attacks with peices? Seriously, I often lose games to opponents who wimply post their queen in front of my wall of castled pawns and maneuver knights around among the kingside vecenity. Many times, chasing their peices out makes things worse, for example, if they plunk a knight on g ...[text shortened]... usly, a lot of players beat me by puting a queen on a g file, should I simply be doing the same?
Originally posted by RavelloWell, as black the white queen will simply get to the g file first, you know this rav
As you suggest..............if it's so simply as you say why don't you do the same and stop with these crappy whinings?
Put the queen on the g file and beat those patzers you're losing from,easy no?
Or maybe the real problem is that you lose because of your own mistakes?
If they beat you playing poorly,this means that you played even more poorly than them.
Originally posted by Svin1I do this, and STILL, it simply works out for them by maneuvering the queen and knights around. It's not exactly difficult to do that, they are such maneuverable peices. And many times, when you chase after them or attack them, things get worse, I've seen games were my opponent moves the same knight around 5-6 times and he finds spot after good spot for it and no matter how much I attack it things get worse, it's like I'm playing some engine, lol.
If your opponents attacks are so obvious, why don't you just forestall them? Put troops on your kingside, trade of some pieces, sac pawns for a better position, etc.
Originally posted by RavelloI do, beleive me, I do, I spend tons of time glued to my computer screen thinking, "how can I defend this?", I go through like 10 sequence of moves, and it's always, "no, that doesn't work", and eventually I get fed up. Attack the queen, nope, doesn't work, it just shifts to the h file were it can threaten mates with knights, leave it there, nope, also not a good idea.
So what?
This means that you should resign as soon as white's queen gets to the g file?
Complain less and think more about your moves.
No matter how much I attack his queen, my opponent is devoted to keeping it in front of my king, and does not care how many queen moves he has to do. The term, easy to do, but difficult to defend, comes to mind in these situations. I'm sure this strategy is a no brainer for guys like Kasparov, as he will find the difficult winning solution, which is why most GM ppl do not do this I suppose, but for someone like me, the queen in front of your king is this archilles heel you simply cannot get rid of no matter how hard you try, it's frustrating, and Rev, don't tell me you are no a victim yourself to this trick, I've looked at a few of your games. . .
Originally posted by mateuloseI agree, your crap, quit chess, give up etc and please stop telling everyone about how crap you are since we already know.
I do, beleive me, I do, I spend tons of time glued to my computer screen thinking, "how can I defend this?", I go through like 10 sequence of moves, and it's always, "no, that doesn't work", and eventually I get fed up. Attack the queen, nope, doesn't work, it just shifts to the h file were it can threaten mates with knights, leave it there, nope, a ...[text shortened]... 't tell me you are no a victim yourself to this trick, I've looked at a few of your games. . .
Drum up an attack of your own... don't get too anxious about knights in your territory - sure they're uncomfy but they're not necessarily devastating.
Counter an attack on the wing w/a push up the centre.
Or use openings designed to castle Q-Side... as the gentleman before me stated!
Or just commence drinking heavily as soon as white pieces begin to swarm around yer King. Works every time for me.