Attacking the player to your right?

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What's the best way to facilitate early-game aggression against the player to your right?

Avatar of is-this-allowed

no

Avatar of Bird-Seed

What do you mean, "no"?

Avatar of is-this-allowed

i dont think its a good idea

Avatar of Danny-2-8-4

Attacking usually no. But blocking yes if there is no risk to your king. This stops their progress and causes a chain reaction. E.g the person digonally to you can destroy the person to your right.

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Typically, you can find weaknesses in their pawn structure and use your bishop to create aggressive play against to opponent on your right. I've been able to pull this off successfully multiple times and it usually catches them off guard because they don't expect an attack from both the right and the front.

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It is very hard to attack the player to your right. You definently can't early in the game if they are reasonable at chaturaji.

Avatar of Danny-2-8-4

There is also the fact you are using less moves to attack the person above you, so they will get ahead in development and pawn promotion. That happened in one of my 2000+ games. A guy blocked and attacked the guy relentlessly to the right of him. So I had a easy time and got the win eventually.

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Attack if you are higher rated, but it is better to play it safe

Avatar of Danny-2-8-4

Basically yeah.

Avatar of TheDonutDude

Focus on getting your king to safety then look for a weakness or try to attack when the player to their left attacks

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I ask because Artic destroyed me once when I was to his right... I can't remember when the game was played though.