Stonewall Opening

The key to the Stonewall Attack is understanding its limitations.

1/- Don't play it against high rated players, its a intermediate club level surprise weapon

2/- Know when not to play it e.g. if Black plays an early move to counter the LSB

3/- Know when to abandon it & transpose to something else. (You may need a bit of study for that)

But if you like the structures & tactics after the opening then stay with it for a while. When I played it as a club player it taught me a lot about tactics, especially the art of sacrifice.

I wrote a bit about the Stonewall Basic Concepts in my Blog, check it out if you want to go further with it

I couldn't really find a question in the OP though, he just sort of threw it out there that there's a set up called the stonewall.

@ D-rose-1
it's a system, so black can choose any setup he wants against it.  If the standard themes don't work, you have to play a middlegame using your general strategic knowledge.

And the more endgames you know, the more the next level of middlegame concepts make sense.

So my feeling is the "answer" (so to speak) is the same answer to the very common beginner question "what if my opponent doesn't play the move I memorized?"  The answer is to play chess... which is very hard and takes a long time to learn.  Luckily it's just as hard for your opponent.  So learn the basics in each area (endgames, strategy, tactics, openings).  Once you do some improvement in all those areas, you'll be beating people who used to beat you, and you're ready for another round of endgames, strategy, tactics, openings etc.

I was just thinking that. Asking for advice on an ongoing game is actually against the rules of the site (pretty much a form of cheating). I sincerely believe you are asking to learn and not to cheat, so I'd suggest that it's better is to finish the game and then post it in the analysis forum and ask for comment there.

Disgruntled_Sheep wrote:

hijodeluna wrote:

D-rose-1 wrote:

"One of the positions I am facing right now is below. I don't want to trade queens, so my plan is 4. Nd2 Qg4  5.f3  Qh5 then what?

But even if I can avoid trading queens, Black's queen being present on the kingside ruins my chances to attack his future castled position. What would you recommend?

You are talking about an ongoing game.   The game is not complete yet.  

I was just thinking that. Asking for advice on an ongoing game is actually against the rules of the site (pretty much a form of cheating). I sincerely believe you are asking to learn and not to cheat, so I'd suggest that it's better is to finish the game and then post it in the analysis forum and ask for comment there. "

I already finished that game...why is everyone so upset that I want advice on what I should have done?? Also. Others are implying that I want to blindly follow the stonewall, which is not true. The whole purpose of my post was to learn how to adapt it to other situations and when to deviate from it

hijodeluna wrote:

You should have stated upfront that this is NOT an ongoing game.  People are being cautious and you should understand that at all times, correct ?

Yeah sorry this was my first time

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use stonewall against kings indian.its very effective . block the opponents kingside so he's half army's struck and destroy other

If anything the Stonewall attack is basicly rather bad versus king indian setups. Please check the treath before you post bad advice