How To Punish Early Queen Attacks
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How To Punish Early Queen Attacks

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What are Early Queen Attacks?

Early queen attacks are queens that attacks the weak f7 or f2 pawn depending what color you are. If you are white, they target the f2 pawn with their queen. If you are black, they target the f7 pawn with their queen. I would say, queen attacks are terrible for high-rated players and beginners too. Queen attacks are terrible because you win a tempo against them. But I want you to see the tricks with the Queen.

The first trick I showed you was a fork on the King and the Rook.

The second trick is called scholar's mate. White mostly gets that position too, so beware of Queen Attacks and also, don't do it too. Why? Because your queen will be in a tempo and you will lose the battle of development.

Here is the trick to punish queen attacks:

You get the idea? You can watch more YouTube videos about it. Or learn it from me. Tell me in the comments if you want more. Now, to test your knowledge. I will insert puzzles on the next chapter. 

Puzzles On How To Punish Queen Attacks

Here are the puzzles:

Tricky Puzzles For Your Day-to-Day Improvement


The second one does have many mates, but, you have to underpromote something to mate.

-chezzplyerr