For the first one: Rhe1. Avoid Black's knight forking your rooks, while sending them to open files for an attack.
For the second one: I would suggest nf3, with the idea of ng5 and rhe1, for a strong attack on the weak e6 pawn.
For the third one: Rd7, with the idea Qd5 and mobilizing the other rook for an attack.
In the first position, a good plan would be to save your pawn and your rooks. Play Rdf1 to guard the f2 pawn. Then chase it away with Bd3, then nail the g pawns, then do a kingside pawn storm.
In the second position you are NOT up material. You are badly down material. Black has a queen. You need to avoid trades and try tp further lock up the board and slow down the development of the queen side, though I think that is futile. The black queen is too manueverable, and the black knight will soon go to d7 to challenge your strong night.
If it were not for the black queen, I'd march the g and h paws forward and try to break in, and maybe even land some rooks into the back camp. I'd also like to pile up on the e pawn, but I think black might be able to defend it easily.
In the third example, it is no contest. You are up a whole queen and bishop. You can move a rook to the 8th rank, force a trade, then station the queen next to f7 while you bring out the other rook. Or you can target g7. Black does not stand a chance and will be mated very soon as long as you force trade or pile up on pawns by the king. Just aim pieces at those pawns and force them to move or be checkmated. That whole position will crumble.
More spacifics? Rd7, Qd5 piling up on f7. Black guards with Rf8. White plays Bd6 attacking the rook and rook must eject or die. the f pawn falls and the rook and queen battery on the 7th forces checkmate very soon.
I had to do the diagrams several times because it was early in the morning, and I goofed, leaving a queen out of one and inserting a queen into the other. My apologies to the both of you who have already given feedback. They are fixed now, and I do appreciate your effort and input.
In the third position, you could attack the pawns with one rook and a bishop while you defend your pawns with the other. The corner rook won't be able to get out in time to save the pawns. You don't have time to double your rooks on the 7th, because f6 followed by Kh7 and then the e rook will follow your 7 rook around so you don't have time to bring the other rook down without a trade. Definitely try to win the queen side pawns and march them.
In the middle position, the large amount of material makes the position more even, but the underdeveloped black queen side gives you a few moves to act. Your bishop can't go forward becasuse of the black pawns. Where it is now, the bishop blocks most of its power. I would play c4, cxd5, Bb5+, and then take the c file with your queen. Finally, you need to activate your rooks. Your h rook is especially passive. Maybe start a pawn storm. I don't know if it applies here, but if a king is not caslted, you want to open up the center to attack it. If it is castled, you want to close the center so its army can't get to it in time to defend it. In this case, open the center.
And in the first position, if Rhe1 like the other poster suggested, then after N moves to attack bishop, black moves the bishop to safety by checking your king, grabbing a tempo to safe the other bishop too.
Rhc1 is ok, since if bxp on either flank, you trap it.
Trading is nice, but a rook can not force mate against a king and knight. You need to win more material first.
Chess is hard :)
The first position is really complicated(at last for me haha) and i am not sure what i would have played. First move i saw was also(Rhe1 and the threat Nxf2). However i think i would have played in a otb game the more safe Rhf1(with the idea of f4) instead of RHe1. I did put the position in a chess engine(too tired to analyse) and it gives Rhe1 and then Nd4(i missed this, but i don't have the nerves to play moves like this anyway ;) )
The second position is a lot easier. Black is positinal lost and the only thing you need to do something is to open his pawn formation(his king is not safe and he is underdeveloped). Just keep up the pressure(maybe Rhe1 or is this too passive?) or go for something like f5?! or maybe g4 and then f5 to break open the position.
The last game doesn't need any analysing because it is completly lost for black(exchange behind and his Rook on Rh8 is dead). Just slowly win the game by attacking his pawns on the Queen side and then promote one of you pawns(meanwhile you keep the pressure on g7) or another possibility is to try to double your both rooks on the 7 rank(in combination with the Bishop on the diagonal a1-h8 will be deadly, but the first option is more safe).
One last thing btw. In your posting you mention you want to be a bit more agressive, but i think you are already agressive enough ;) Looking at your positions, i don't think this is a weakness of you. You are already playing active, but you lack the experience to convert the win.
Like you said yourself you need to practice by making plans. The best thing to do is to look at (preferable old games) of grandmasters and play them move by move. One book i really like is Understanding Chess Move by Move(John Nunn), because he explains the moves in details in a very understandable way.
I find myself, often enough, up in material, but with no plan of attack. I like to play an Italian-ish game (when my opponent cooperates
), and I'd like to be more aggressive but sometimes I just don't see it. Here are three examples from OTB games yesterday.
While the other two were middle game examples, here is an endgame example:
As a person who has only been playing chess since April, I take great enjoyment in the game but have a hard time seeing holes in the opponent's position, or even seeing the strengths in my own (and taking advantage of them both). Any help in analyzing these positions would be greatly, greatly appreciated. Thanks.