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Avatar of BeamerEA

So I am in a casual game and I am fairly new to chess (learned what the pieces did about 2 weeks ago).

http://lichess.org/fHGnLUYv

I am white and I am wondering if I have any chance to win? He has more pieces but I think mine are in a better spot. Thanks for any advice!

Avatar of ArtNJ

I find it highly unlikely you will beat a player with that rating in that position in a correspondence game and believe your temporary pressure will be beaten back over the next few moves.  If you believe you'll learn something from that, there is certainly no reason to resign, but the game is pretty hopeless.  

Typically, a player of his rating will have put in several hundred or thousand hours on chess over several years.  You are playing very well for where your at, but your playing a much bigger fish.  

Avatar of BeamerEA

Alright thanks, I'll play it out and try to learn from it. I didn't realize how important rating is, I just assumed he was about my skill level haha. Thanks again!

Avatar of thedeliveryman

No, it's completely lost.  You have a semi-useful A file as compensation for two pieces? lol, I don't think so.  

Black can easily consolidate his position by trading queens, putting knight on c6 to d4, the king on d7 etc. 

Also someone rated 1800+ is in the top 5%...

Avatar of nartreb

You're right that his pieces are mostly shut in behind his pawns, while you've got an active attack started using the one open file.     However, his position is also rather strong and he shouldn't have any trouble stopping your attack.  He will need a tiny bit of time to open up lines for his own attack, but he is in no hurry and he has some good options for how to do it.   In the end it's his extra pawns that will probably doom you.

I like your attacking spirit:  keep forcing him to make decisions, don't wait for him to bring problems to you.