how to know what's your chess style?

https://www.chess.com/article/view/which-chess-legend-do-you-play-like

Did you read it? Why not ask the question at the bottom of that article, where you are likely to find other people who have just read it.

I am sorry if it sounds rude, but most players below 1500/1600 don't have a style. They should and can only speak one language, that is tactics. Some people have everything mixed together in their play, so it's not really important to know your style. All we should do is try to play good principled chess. Once you gain experience, you will automatically know your style.

There was a similar article by Chess.com in 2013 except it gave you an actual test before it told you who you played like..

https://www.chesspersonality.com/

to a certain extent, chess style is irrelevant. what is important is do you understand how to play chess?

Tal, Petrosian,Bottvinik, Geller, Karpov, Kasparov, Nakamura, and Carlsen. they all know how to play chess. learn the game and your "style" will come naturally.

The question itself I find to be without interest because above all we play positions which define whether we are going to play attacking, defensive etc.

example

at the end of this variant of KID the White and Black player are above all a need to understand the position well enough to adopt a strategy adapted to the position.

In this case the position is closed and White has a space advantage on the side 0-0-0 and Black is on the side 0-0 so in short White is not going to play an attacking style on the side 0-0, White is going to play attacking on the side 0-0-0.

Now we have for ex. a strong bot that can be beaten (on the short term) by adopting "a defensive waiting style" . This is explained by the fact that the bot doesn't understand the position and doesn't have enough gaming experience in this position (Bot cannot use its memory and its statistical/probability function to eliminate the bad ways to play the position) so bot starts playing "noob moves" which will close the position on the 0-0-0 side and subsequently bot will be forced to adopt "a defensive waiting style" that will lead to lose against a player who is far less strong than him.

another example :

at the end of this variant Black will be forced to play a defensive style which highlights that the style of play is too oriented in relation to the positions obtained.

share some of your games and someone who can understand what's going on in your games can note recurring themes like "are you a pawn blocker" or "do you like to get your knights before bishops on?"

what are your favorite things in a chess game? tripping opponents up one little space claiming move at a time? what do you hate in your games?

I can't stand pawns. pawns pawns pawns. get them out of my way! here... take all the pawns you want that open lines and/or develop my pieces. I'm a gambiteer.

share the kinds of games you like and hate. to flip the board for black, AFTER you paste your pgn, select flip board in "themes" where it's hidden when it should be on the board

I really enjoy playing aggressive openings as white like the King's Gambit or the Vienna Game. As black, I like to play the Sicilian Defense and the French Defense to counterattack my opponent's aggressive play. I also enjoy playing tactical games where I can sacrifice material to gain an advantage or checkmate my opponent. On the other hand, I hate games where my opponent plays very defensively and blocks every possible attack I make. I also dislike games where I am behind in material and have to play defensively for the entire game. It just feels like I am not able to take the initiative and play my game.

so it sounds like you are a gambiteer too... get them before they get you

check these videos out to see if they look like the kind of fast attacking games you can wrap your head around.

i'll start with total revelation, FOR ME englund gambit hartlaub charlick for black... VERY VERY mobile with lots of tactical opportunities and even if you just stick to the basic plans as best you can in the sidelines, you'll have a bit of opportunity to regroup your more mobile pices in some ugly games.

I KNEW I loved it without ever playing it because where haters see two missing pawns, I see 2 annoying pawns out of the way and TARGETS everywhere. very easy to play just learning this video. if 2.c4 d5 is the albin counter gambit which is kamikaze crazy fun... not the best scoring line, but great for a hartlaub sideline

if you play french and sicilian, I'd say stick with the french because it's less complicated than sicilian and generally more annoying for most white players. if you get REALLY hungry for gambits, you could try rousseau and jaenish schliemann

d3 leads to the annoying luccini gambit where black is hard pressed to find an advantage, but can hold close to =, and then grab some more wisns with jaenish schliemann

it's HARD finding lines like these, and there's a lot of theory needed to play these really well

king's gambit is always fun to play fried liver style, but the scotch, scotch gambit and goring are really annoying for black as is the danish and double danish... an intuitive looking openening that's just tactic after tactic... take a look

or this main line

I'm eager to play the double danish and similar double goring gambit when I can't danish for total GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

that stuff look fun?

I first took this quiz in 2017. It is a good quiz I like.

According to the quiz, I'm an escape artist, and should play the english and french... no thanks on BOTH