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How to handle early Queen attack
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Best way is to get your knights out
Get both knights out first
Then slowly develop check before every move that you don’t have pieces hanging
Jul 1, 2021
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#6
Viznik wrote:
By accepting black’s gambit, the Old Benoni, you made your center weak and your pawn vulnerable.
Qa5+ is an extremely odd move. While it wins back the pawn, it does nothing else but make black’s queen vulnerable to multiple attackers while White can naturally develop.
When my opponent brings the queen out early, I am usually glad because odds are, they are going to lose it early, too. Sometimes, a queen trade with a player who likes to play with an active queen can really help, as their ability to play without a queen is seriously hindered by their lack of experience of playing without high queen activity.
This isn't a gambit...
Jul 1, 2021
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#8
Viznik wrote:
ninjaswat wrote:
Viznik wrote:
By accepting black’s gambit, the Old Benoni, you made your center weak and your pawn vulnerable.
Qa5+ is an extremely odd move. While it wins back the pawn, it does nothing else but make black’s queen vulnerable to multiple attackers while White can naturally develop.
When my opponent brings the queen out early, I am usually glad because odds are, they are going to lose it early, too. Sometimes, a queen trade with a player who likes to play with an active queen can really help, as their ability to play without a queen is seriously hindered by their lack of experience of playing without high queen activity.
This isn't a gambit...
Meh, gambiting a piece is gambiting a piece. Whether or not Black was actually playing the benoni or going for central queen control is another thing
No I mean it's literally impossible to hold onto the pawn...
Things like this have happened a couple times...
Jul 1, 2021
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#9
Viznik wrote:
ninjaswat wrote:
The old benoni is perfectly sound...
He was asking for help on early queen activity, not whether or not Black played the Benoni correctly.
I mean because you were saying this is a gambit. Ugh let's just keep this on topic from now on.
Jul 1, 2021
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#10
Okay also as long as you keep tabs on the queen and make sure after each move you play nothing is hanging you'll be fine
So if I had played Nc3 instead of Bd2 and then followed with developing the other knight as well, I would have been better off. I've had this early queen attack happen to me in other games, and I always end up losing.
Jul 1, 2021
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#12
after move 12 it was just blunders that killed you but the "queen attack" that black used was very bad for him if white plays correctly
DaBabysBurner wrote:
after move 12 it was just blunders that killed you but the "queen attack" that black used was very bad for him if white plays correctly
Yes, and therein lies the rub: white (me) is trying to figure out how to play correctly. Appreciate all the help.
Jul 2, 2021
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#14
when your opponent plays an early queen move typically you just develop and attack the queen with tempo on the same move. you just have to be careful not to blunder anything and don't over-extend. going out of you way to attack a piece is not good cuz you'll most likely waste a tempo yourself. also, you don't need to attack the queen immediately. in some position, the queen would be simply misplaced and useless.
for example
the queen is an early target in the Scandinavian. (Scandinavian is not bad if black plays it correctly)
however you do need to be careful with attacks
Black launched an attack with the Queen very early & basically I was lost very early on. What is the best way to handle these sorts of attacks before I have any chance to set my pawn structure, etc.?