That was certainly not his best game of chess. I don't want to degenerate him or anything especially considering his rating is higher than mine. However, his rating definitely won't be going up if he keeps playing like that. Stick to the conventional rules of chess and you will be rate higher than him in no time. I do encounter the odd player who makes some bizarre moves like that. It frustrates me if I lose to them and don't punish what are clearly bad chess ideas. I'm just confident that in the long term my style of playing will be more beneficial.
Develop your fricken pieces!
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Im not a very good player, but I just checkmated an opponent in live chess rated 200 elo higher than me in only 22 moves, because he was content with pawn pushing. How does somebody rated 1485 not understand the concept of "develop your pieces"!?!?
And though the pawn pushing was more extensive in my game than other games hes played, the "pawn push mentality" seems to be heavy in all his games. Yet im his only loss in the last 10!?!? Do people really struggle with this strategy or am I justified in being totally bewildered by this?