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I played the suicide defence for a while until I was advised it was a bad idea. I still really need to learn how to play middle and endgames, when to keep pieces, where to put them.

So many players do the natural thing of giving away pieces and so often that's the fatal move. Other times I get restless and push something out.

Too often this is played at high speed so I just rush out whatever.

 

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randomando9000 wrote:

won 2 back to back with a different strategy: let me know what ya think!

https://www.chess.com/variants/giveaway/game/28222473

https://www.chess.com/variants/giveaway/game/28222561

 

I'm pretty certain Bd5 is a losing move in that position (first game) and you have to play Bf3. 

 

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Thought i had this one at the end, butcouldn't finish well.

https://www.chess.com/variants/giveaway/game/28734934

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okay, i totally thought i was going to lose this one the entire time, lemme know what ya think,

https://www.chess.com/variants/giveaway/game/40230752

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recent draw: https://www.chess.com/variants/giveaway/game/75376057/1/3

plz giv me ur ideas on how to impruv

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Hey Chess Corner, I went through your game and found a few things I would suggest. Some are just memorisation based while others are more general principles.

- You responded to 1.E3 with D6. This is quite a simple forced loss which a high rated opponent would have easily punished. By moving their queen to g4 followed by Kd1 they have lined up a long chain of captures which you have no choice in making. It is possible to force you to capture every single piece from here so I wouldn't recommend D6.

- On move 6 (after opponent's king captured your queen) you had an opportunity to do something similar as described above. By moving your pawn to B4, your opponents bishop is forced to take. From here it is possible to calculate to the very end a sequence of moves which wins by force.

- In situations where there are forced captures for your opponent I would recommend as a general principle calculating the exact sequence of moves that will occur if you were to play various options (of course you don't have to calculate everything, but it's good to check at least the line you end up going with provided you have the time).

Some examples from this game:

a. On move 12 you played knight to f6. This forces your knight to take the pawn the move afterwards, potentially ruining the golden opportunity you had after your opponents bishop ended up on your side of the board on your turn and you could have easily prevented this by calculating slightly in advance.

b. On move 14. You captured your opponents bishop with your rook. This seems natural, but if instead you had taken the F2 pawn with your knight your opponent would have been forced to take the f7 pawn. You must follow up by capturing the rook or king (I recommend rook because its easy to sacrifice the knight on g2 afterwards), and your opponent will then capture on e6. At this point its your turn, and your opponents bishop is in a vulnerable position where you can force it to capture your pieces rather than being the one forced to capture your opponents. This would only have required calculating a couple of moves in advance.

c. At move 19 onwards you had 2 of your opponents pieces you could easily use to force to capture your entire set of pieces. There are plenty of options to force a win here and you had over 2 minutes on your clock to find one. It looks like you only spent a couple seconds here, so I would recommend taking the time to ensure the win when you are in such a dominant position.

d. Similarly, at move 21 you took only a couple seconds to move your pawn to c6. This forces you to spend your next two turns moving pieces into range of the knight. If instead, you had left the c pawn there and moved the a pawn to a6, you would have 3 knight captures lined up in a row. This would have given you extra free moves to advance the pawns on the other side of the board, and this head start would surely have been helpful. Alternatively, moving the C pawn to c5 directly rather than going c6, then c5 would have saved you 1 move. This too only requires calculating a very small number of moves in advance.

It seems you are pretty new and I am sure you will develop naturally with experience, but for now my main suggestion would be to spend a bit more time calculating, especially in positions where your opponents moves are forced.