AveryDugaw

Basic info:

From: U.S.A.
Living in: Nofey Yam, Israel.
Born in: 1998.

🗣 Instagram: @averydugaw

Sayings:

📕Judge a book by its cover.
🎲Take risks, be remembered.
📝Write, remember.
🦾Lift, every muscle is you.
⏳Love, no time to hate.
🎓Study past, to invent future.
 
Recently I learned:
In my most recently analyzed game against jdhddv, I had a better position at the start but ruined it with aggressive random pawn-structure weakening moves along with aggressive queen movements. 

My Chess history:
I don't know at what age I played my first game of Chess, but probably my first game was with my dad who had never really studied Chess but could beat everyone he played. I first got really into it at age 12. Quickly I was studying openings, and only a year later I was a Chess teacher's right hand man AKA assistant teacher. My favorite opening with white then was the Queen's Gambit because I thought it was super aggressive and took over the center. My favorite opening then with black was the French Defense because I thought it was simple and effective. Now I could beat even my dad at Chess, and so he never really wanted to play me since I beat him.

A couple years later at age 16 I was living in Israel and chose to use my Chess skills to make my new Israeli friends. I would walk up to complete strangers and challenge them to Chess. Chess has always been one of my best icebreakers. 

Now I continue to play Chess and meet new people, but my openings are far more diverse and well-studied. I found it takes a lot to be really good at Chess these days, since everyone has plenty of opening theory content accessible to them on the internet, in addition to AI Chess Analysis engines that can play Chess positions better than we can. While Chess often is easier with great intelligence and strategy, I find that the game has been changed forever to also be more a game of memory and study than it used to be, for better, or for worse. 

 Critical things I have learned in Chess: 
1. Play aggressive for a psychological and general advantage
2. Your pawn structure determines your position
3. Every piece has an ideal placement
4. Respect the bishop pair
5. Gain space, break open the center or checkmate the king once you have developed.
6. Your pieces must work together.
7. Opponent's pieces on your side of the board are dangerous.
8. Chess engines lie.
9. Value attacking and forcing moves.
10. the threat or potential of taking a good square is sometimes better than taking it.
11. Punish 0.1 second pre-movers.
12. When you push a pawn, you often weaken the squares you leave behind.
13. Opening files opens possibilities.
14. Having more possibilities than your opponent, so long as you are able to decide well, will lead to you having a better game.

My Chess Idols:
Anish Giri
Ben Finegold
GothamChess
Kamil Plichta
Sam Shankland
Simon Williams
Alex Colovic
Sirinath Narayanan 
Arturs Nieksans
Wesley So
Jan Gustafsson 
Peter Svidler
Arjun Kalyan
Yuriy Krykun
KaspaChess