How do I play against a player that refuses to develop?
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Had a recent game where they tried to scholars mate. I played decent and won a minor piece in the middle game but after we traded queens, they just kept attacking with their dark squared bishop.
What on earth do I do in a game like that? There's 0 action whatsoever...
emberrr123 wrote:
Had a recent game where they tried to scholars mate. I played decent and won a minor piece in the middle game but after we traded queens, they just kept attacking with their dark squared bishop. What on earth do I do in a game like that? There's 0 action whatsoever...
What game was this?
Post the game in the forum
If they don't develop you just... develop. Once most of your pieces are out and ready to fight while theirs' are not, feel free to throw punches at their awful setup.
> How do I play against a player that refuses to develop?
Develop.
@Marcyful D'oh, you beat me to it.
But if you need a specific solution to your problem @emberrr123, you can post this recent game of yours here for analysis.
Jan 22, 2022
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#8
once you win a piece, try this:
stay solid & centralize your pieces again.
trade equal pieces off until they have none.
take some of their pawns off with your piece.
make new queens out of your extra pawns.
checkmate their king with your queens. 🙂
@hrarray @Marcyful https://chess.com/live/game/36564600163 The gist of it is my opponent really only played with 3 pieces the entire game until I resigned after blundering a rook @technical_knockout Thats really good advice, I always get greedy after winning a piece. Thank you!
Jan 22, 2022
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#10
first priority: minimize counterplay.
often in the process of winning material our pieces lose contact with each other. regrouping them to the strategically important center, or even bringing them all the way back to base allows you to harmonize their movements.
this puts you in a better position to ward off the opponent's desperation counterattack, which is probably en route if they don't want to get crushed by your superior forces.
This game seemed to largely boil down to noticing checks and captures. The hanging material determined the outcome. I put down a few thoughts below. (Note, had to edit the comment in order to get the image to show, the edit itself didn't seem to matter, I just needed to add something and the image loaded after doing so.)
Just try not to blunder your pieces and set up an attack against their king. Since you have an extra queen you should be able to force pawn weaknesses that you can exploit. The material difference is so great in the middle game that in my opinion you don’t even need to go for forks or free pawns. Main thing is to think before every move and look at your opponent’s ideas.
If this is the best you can still play at 10-minute games, then by all means play longer time controls with increment, say 15'+10" or 25'+10", and USE YOUR TIME.
You DO have to think before playing a move, else you will never improve. In the above game, after 15.Nxd4 (which is quite obviously attacking your Queen), you replied 15...Bf6?? in less than 1,5 second. This is not good at all.
Jan 23, 2022
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#14
better to trade down when ahead than risk staying in a middlegame... the advantage with being ahead is that since your opponent can't afford to trade down you can basically push them off the board & seize all the good lines & squares.
You took his queen on move six!!! That's a pretty good start
But in all seriousness, you had no problem with the opening, or the fact that he "wouldn't develop." Your only problem, and it is one that holds every beginner back, is you just don't look at the board before moving! You have to see if any of your pieces are hanging. And you have to see if any of his pieces are hanging. You played 15...Bf6?? losing your queen in 2 seconds!!