Can you counter Queen Trades?

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CHT192
As a high-ranked chess player in my school, many people are scared to play against me and others are determined to defeat me. However, there's this one friend of mine (patricio4) that only has ONE target: My Queen.
During the, what... 36 GAMES that I've played with him, he ALWAYS wants to trade Queens with me at LEAST THRICE, and I find it ANNOYING as heck. There was this one game in which he attacked my queen by exposing her to the center, and basically attacking her with EVERYTHING, and I mean, EVERYTHING.
About +80% of my moves were QUEEN moves in that game (I resigned after because of rage), and because of that, I'm wondering if you can counter that if you were in my shoes, and somehow PUNISH the attempt of trading queens. (Yes, I'm aware that it depends, and yes, I'm better than him)

What can I do?
web14

if he managed to make you resign then maybe he is better than you . no offence , just an opinion . 

web14

and if he is fond of queen trading then why not take advantage of this fact . prepare a strategy in which you enable the trading of queens but get better position then him or him suffering loss in exchanging queens . 

maybe queen trading will become his downfall

Sqod

You both are getting overly focused on the queen. A bad move is a bad move, so if he's overextending his forces to try to trade queens, then he's making a mistake somewhere that you can and should exploit. The same thing applies to him if you waste moves retreating your queen. If a trade of any type benefits you, then you should make it, otherwise you should not. Whether that trade involves a queen or not is not very relevant. It might help if you posted one of those games you mentioned, so we can point out who went wrong where.

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Arbitrarily avoiding a queen trade.

Queen trades are like anything else: they're good or
bad depending on the circumstances. But some players
compulsively say things such as "I need my queen,"
or "I play well with my queen." Odds are they don't,
and that they handle the queen badly and also its
two constituent pieces, the rook and the bishop.

Rx
1. Be willing to trade queens for small advantages.
2. Trade queens to keep the enemy king in the
center.
3. Trade queens to save valuable time.
4. Don't move the queen frivolously just to avoid an
even exchange.
5. Be willing to trade the queen favorably for equiva-
lent material (two rooks, three minor pieces, etc.) [sic]
6. Then use the piece combinations supportively to
issue double attacks.
7. If you have the queen and your opponent the
pieces, look for forking checks and pick them off.

Pandolfini, Bruce. 1995. The Chess Doctor. New York: Simon & Schuster.

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      2 Play the man--not the board

   Only an automaton plays the same way against every opponent. The
practical chess-player looks out for the strengths and weaknesses of his
opponents, and goes out of his way to capitalize on the weaknesses.

   Before a World Championship Match, each player may spend months
making a very thorough study of his opponent's games, searching for
weaknesses in his opening repertoire, identifying the types of positions in
which he is at home or ill-at-ease, assessing his tendency to over-optimism
or pessimism, and so on. You can't go to these lengths, but you should still
be able to make good use of anything you know about your opponent's
style of play.

   If you play regularly at a club you will doubtless know what to expect
from most of the other club members. You may know that Smith will
attack like crazy and go to any lengths to avoid an exchange of queens, that
Jones is lacking in confidence and inclined to agree to a draw in a good
position, and that Bloggs relies mainly on setting cheap traps. With this
information you should be able to tackle each of these opponents in a
particular way.

Webb, Simon. 2005. Chess for Tigers. London: Batsford.

CHT192
However, our most recent game got me a win. I made my shocking Queen sacrifice, and the FOOL fell to his doom as he opened a file in which I got my rook to check him, then block Queen, and checkmate.
CHT192
Oh, and web14, I've beaten him 25 TIMES in a row.
Diakonia

Play the position on the board, not the queen.  If chess is causing you "rage" maybe its not for you.

CHT192
Um, excuse me? I've played as a kid, been taught, and now I'm an expert. I've won MORE THAN HALF of my games.
tomatogoat

I don't really get your deal, kid. Why do you hate trading queens? Like, what the heck is actually wrong with trading queens? If you're playing like normal and continuing with your plan and he goes out of his way to trade queens, just trade queens with him, you will have developed your pieces and stuff while he has accomplished little to nothing

BronsteinPawn

You are not an expert. I would crush you with my eyes closed and Im a patzer.

BronsteinPawn

Really all you have showed here is your lack of chess understanding, and maybe even english.

Why dont you open a book and learn about chess? I doubt he gets playable positions if all he does is try to offer queen exchanges, you should exploit those little things to win.

Too complex? I dont care, get humble and then ask for help.

Diakonia
CHT192 wrote:
Um, excuse me? I've played as a kid, been taught, and now I'm an expert. I've won MORE THAN HALF of my games.

My apologies, i thought you were lookng for help.  But after reading your other posts here, i see, youre only interested in: bragging, lying to yourself about how good you are, and insulting your opponents.  

Let me know when youre serious about improving.  

BronsteinPawn

Here is your loss against patricio. Thank me later.

 

BronsteinPawn

No wonder why Mexico is going to hell, with stupid kids like him we are gonna stay like a 3rd world country for life! 

HELL YEAH!!!!

BronsteinPawn

Geez, think I got too triggered on this one.

Diakonia

8 queen moves in the first 12 moves?

blueemu

There are two typical antidotes to this problem:

1) Get good at endgames, so that a trade of Queen-for-Queen puts you right in your comfort zone. Then your opponent is just playing into your hands by offering a Queen trade.

2) Use your Queen as a support piece (like Artillery) instead of trying to use it to spearhead the attack. He can't trade it off if you haven't exposed it.

BronsteinPawn
Diakonia escribió:

8 queen moves in the first 12 moves?

Dont question him, he is an expert! Nacio sabiendolo todo!surprise.png

tomatogoat

A 1000 rated expert

tomatogoat

Who has won over half his games!!!!!