How do you maintain control of the center?
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Georgek1228
Oct 2, 2020
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In every game I play, I feel like I’m getting dominated. I don’t know if that’s because my skill rating is too high for where I should be, I have no clue what I’m doing, both, or if there’s something else I’m missing. I understand to develop the pawns into the middle square, and then develop the knights, but I can never maintain control and people pick apart anything I do with ease. Is it because I don’t have an opening to heart? Is it because I do not develop enough pieces centrally? What do you do if they take a pawn in the center in the first couple of moves?
Oct 2, 2020
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#2
send me one of your games, where you feel that you played well, but lost
I will try to answer
Oct 2, 2020
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#3
1. You need better opening choices, e4 as white is to difficult for many starters and e5 against d4 is just trash if you dont know the variations very well. 2. I looked over some of your games, you have real problems to realize what your opponent is planning AND what your plan should be. If you play without a plan, you might lose very fast most often. I would take a look at the London System, Queens Gambit Declined and Caro-Kann as an solid repertoire with logical ideas and not too much opening theory.
Oct 2, 2020
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I have looked at a few of your games and I advise you to do the same. If I am right your main problem at the moment is that you give your pieces away for free.
Oct 2, 2020
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#6
Thank you guys for the advice. My biggest weakness is not knowing what my opponent wants to do. I’ll study those openings and try to cover my pieces better. I think I just dig myself into holes and then instead of cutting my losses I just go ahead and finish the grave.
It might be worth studying a few openings to become familiar with typical ideas. I'm not suggesting memorising lines, but look at the reasons behind the moves. Themes like f7 weakness, and pinning a defending knight before capturing a pawn, often come up. Once you know a few of these, your opponents plans will be more apparent.