Chessbrah building habits doubt with heavy atack on castled side (elo 300)

Hi there!

I'm trying to follow Chessbrah's building habits, but I get games like this a lot where my kingside is heavily attacked after castling. Almost always happens after a bishop moves into b4 and after the 'snorkel a3' it retreats to a5.

Anybody has any suggestion of how this can be dealt with, using habits? This kind of games happen really often to me lately. Thanks!

If you take a look at move 11, you have made it so that your queen can no longer recapture if his bishop takes your knight on f6. This means that you will have to recapture with the g-pawn, which exposes your king. If you want to follow his habits, I think you have two choices here. You can either put the queen on e7 instead of d7, or you can play the "snorkle" before he can play bishop to g5. That way you stay out of this position entirely.

Ok

Thanks! (and sorry for the late reply) Recently I've been watching some older videos of him and he explains this same thought process

It seems to me that White castled awful early in that game.

Are you sure that you can't take advantage to get a King's Side attack of your own?

Nice suggestion, thanks! I'll try it sometime if I see an early castling, although, concerning Aman's habits, sacrifices are not allowed at such level (I'm actually still confused on how to use them most of the time)

Just for the record, in the old habits extended series, Aman actually discuses the importance of not doubling king pawns with early bishop-to-queen pins like the one I had.

(from 1:46:00 to 2:05:30)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghLz0yUgAEU&t=7077s

If you ever get double pawns in front of your king again, which just does happen from time to time (even to me and I'm 1600). Then it's generally a good idea to play something like Kh7, followed by Rg8, in order to line up an attack on white's king. You could have played this as early as move 17.