When trading pieces, you should try to do in such a way that it creates positional advantages for you, such as weaking your opponent's pawns or giving your pieces room to become active.
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Example 2:
How to deal with players that keep trading everything to an endgame?
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10 days ago
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Try your best to get the most out of the trades your opponent's do. If they let your pieces develop then you should take advantage of that and slowly get enough pieces ready to attack the center, the king, or the other side, or get more space, attack weaknesses. You will understand more the longer you play. Friend?
9 days ago
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@Fr3nchToastCrunch @Josh11live
Thanks for the replies. I understand these concepts somewhat, although I do need more practice on them. The problem I usually face is when setting up an attack, they force me to trade my attacking pieces, which just nullifies my attack. Perhaps my issue is not being good at attacking with just a rook and a bishop/knight.
I tend to get a lot of those at my elo range, and I try to not just trade but improve my position and create counter threats, but they force trades and it turns to an endgame that could go either way. Should I just focus on improving my endgames, or is there something I'm missing in the middle game that will punish people who want to trade everything and go to an endgame as quickly as possible?