How to properly attack in chess

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Here I had the black pieces and this game will show you how to attack properly and counter attack from unsound/bad attacks and some small tips along the way. My opening was called the French defense: exchange variation because the e and d pawns are exchanged and there’s a setup online that you should look for if you want to learn the exchange french as black and make sure to understand the plans and not memorize everything. 7. hxg5 is a lesson which is to always go slow and blunder check every move or else this will happen and that’s why I also recommend playing rapid games which is 10min-30min+the increment you like or if you don’t want increment then don’t add it. 8. Bxe2 trade when up. 9. Qe7 although looks like it blocks the bishop it allows me to castle faster and defends against the discovered check. 10. Nbd7 just trading because I’m up. 12. Nxd7 and I missed Qxe1# and I missed it because I wasn’t focused, you see 100% focusing in chess means you are playing at full power, but if you don’t you’ll miss backrank mate like me. 14. Rxh2, and here which one would you have played? Bxh2+ or Rxh2? The way to know is to see what you will do next. In this example if I had done Bxa2+ and Kf1 then what will I do because my rook is blocked and the king is about to escape and I can’t bring my pieces there in time and that’s what I saw, but it’s really hard to calculate so do the one that looks best to you if it’s too hard to calculate. I played Rxh2 because I saw that I would bring the other rook on the file, but if Bxh2+ then I could have used my connected rooks to stop the king from escaping to e2 and more on trapping the king on the next sentence. 16. Qb5+ looks like an ordinary check, but what it does is it’s trying to block the king off from e2 and escape and I saw c4 dxc4 and I threatened c3 discovered check and I stopped calculating because I thought this was good enough at the time, but my opponent helped me with Qe2 which blocks e2 entire and this will help me later. 17. Rh1+ Kg2 Rh2+ and we start to get the king to the center. I don’t have my rooks now so I relied on my other pieces and thought about where would the king go? But the opposing king couldn’t go anywhere and you should always think about that in your attack against the opposing king. Put the king emoji down is you read until this far and thx for coming here, ok next. Alot of the time there is going to be a tactic with the king in the center and since this was 3/2 I didn’t have much time to calculate so I did cca/checks captures attacks on anything that I could attack and calculated it and alot of the time you don’t have many moves to choose from so I found 20. Bf4+!! And if pawn takes then Rh3+! And then they have to sacrifice material to get out and if 21. Kxf4 Qxe2 and if Rxh1 then I get a queen and my opponent gets a rook and if Rxe2 then Rxa1 as shown in the game. The rest is just a matter of attacking weaknesses and making sure that they don’t escape and disallowing my weaknesses to be targeted, but I wasn’t doing that much in the game. 27. b6 attacks the knight which disallows it to attack my pawns there, but I was not paying much attention and 29. Ne5 was played and I immediately saw my pawn couldn’t be guarded do always try to disallow your opponent’s pieces to attack your to get get close to your if it doesn’t make another weakness. 33. Ra3 and my opponent resigned and thx for coming far til this point.

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I will know who read and who didn’t because of my amazing plan! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahaahahahhah! *cough* *cough* ow

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XD

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move 12 you could have checkmated lol

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Bro Bf4 is a blunder but u are still winning since you have opened up their king.

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#5, Bf4 is one is the great tactics among the position so don’t underestimate my intelligence again. 🤓

jk

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Congrats on your win, but move 12 you could’ve had #

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Ik, but this wasn’t a serious game even though it was rated, but when I got the open file and bishop I went all out.

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Congrats on your win, but move 12 you could’ve had #// fr

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in move 12 you have checkmate

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Why does everyone have to acknowledge that I missed mate when I already acknowledged it in the text? It’s starting to get annoying to be reminded of my mistake for I think 4th time??

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Josh11live wrote:

Why does everyone have to acknowledge that I missed mate when I already acknowledged it in the text? It’s starting to get annoying to be reminded of my mistake for I think 4th time??

those who feel bad for bro......

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Hi sans. Makes sense, I think.