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KTRNH

I pride myself on the ability to beat Nelson aggressively. I realize I make so many blunders and recently when I've won I've made fewer and fewer. I would appreciate some feedback on how I did because I'm trying to use bots to increase my rating up to the skill im 90 percent sure I play at (1000-1100)

alertf

Why did u take so long to beat someone as simple as nelson?

KTRNH
alertf wrote:

Why did u take so long to beat someone as simple as nelson?

Nelson is not simple for me because by thretime I trade queens, I am always put in a bad position, so it is extremely difficult for me to make an endgame of get any sort of material advantage. Nelson I feel like for some stupid reason is extremely difficult when only going against me because people say it's easy and I can see why (mainly after his queen is gone because he makes senseless moves and doesn't know what to do) but again as mentioned he cripples any chance for an endgame before I can trade queens with him

KTRNH
alertf wrote:

Why did u take so long to beat someone as simple as nelson?


Shorter game against Nelson when I did admittedly way worse

Abrahamw204

What the heck is Kf7

KTRNH
Abrahamw204 wrote:

What the heck is Kf7

Was confused by that too, I notice he gets confused without his queen (rarely but I noticed it a lot since it took me 5 months to beat him)

alertf
KTRNH wrote:
alertf wrote:

Why did u take so long to beat someone as simple as nelson?


Shorter game against Nelson when I did admittedly way worse

Still too Long. I can beat Nelson in 35 - 40 moves

zachiah1

https://www.chess.comhttps://www.chess.com/game/computer/18999667

Try switching your opening and playing style when playing against nelson. It's much easier to beat him if you play 1. d4 for example. Just make developing moves that attack the queen, and be sure not to blunder, and you'll be fine. Nelson was hard for me for a while as well, but once you realize that you don't have to always get rid of the queen, but you can just do your own thing and he will just wander aimlessly accomplishing nothing, then it's pretty easy!

PS. I just did this right after waking up, so that explains a lot of the mistakes if there are any (:

zachiah1

https://www.chess.comhttps://www.chess.com/game/computer/19000333
Sometimes you'll even get a game where he lets you trade off the queen quite early if you play d4. (Moving my queen out to let him trade, wasn't the best move, but thinking pragmatically from a human perspective, after the queens are traded, it's easy to win as you say, so that move makes sense.)

Again right after I woke up, my checkmating skills seem to be horrendous in the morning!

zachiah1

As far as your wins, I think you did fine! The main things that stand out to me from looking at your games, are:
1. You don't develop your pieces enough... A lot of the time when you could be developing a piece, you seem to be just moving pawns or trading aimlessly. Most of the time in chess just because a trade is available, doesn't mean you should do it, especially in the opening. Only trade pieces if there is a real reason for doing so (you could tell me what the reason is). For example: move 7 or the first game, you could have developed a bishop to defend that pawn, instead of wasting a move taking his pawn.  Another example of not developing pieces: You didn't move your light squared bishop until move 31? If you don't use a piece, you might as well not have it.
2. You allow your pawn structure to be damaged too easily and don't think about repairing it: Look at your pawn structure by move 8 of game #1. That pawn structure stinks! The only reason you have an advantage there is that Nelson hasn't developed any pieces and is just aimlessly doing absolutely nothing as usual. I would've recommended the move c4 on move 8. This move improves your pawn structure quite a bit (plans to maybe play c3 later on), and it attacks the queen which gives you free tempi.

Mainly, these mistakes apply to chess in general, and not just playing against nelson, as far as playing against nelson specifically, as I said before, I'd recommend playing d4, and just developing and attacking the queen to gain free tempi, but not worrying about the queen all the time.

Best of luck!

KTRNH

really bad example, but I took your advice (while i did horrible I noticed in this game he was definitely not as aggressive). Thank you so much for the advice!!

https://www.chess.comhttps://www.chess.com/game/computer/19018195

KTRNH

@zachiah1

I got him while his queen was still active, Zero blunders and a brilliant (also my first one) on 29. Bxe6+

 

KTRNH
alertf wrote:

Why did u take so long to beat someone as simple as nelson?

Lol is 31 moves good enough for you?