silly queens
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Jun 25, 2007
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hmmm.... looks like you were both playing too many queen moves! you need to get your other pieces into the game. also, you gave up some material (pieces/pawns) for nothing. you should focus on getting all of your pieces into action! but other than that, nice win!
the reason for my queen moves... (goes into some psuedo-justification)
At the time I thought I was waiting for a weakness, while at the same time defending against his queen.
As for the pawns I usually ignore their continuing extinction... it's a bad habbit.
(ends half assed psuedo-justification)
Jun 25, 2007
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#4
Excuse me if this is blunt; it's meant to help
For black:
3. Qb7 was decidedly a weak move. Bb7, 36, e5, Nf6, a6, g6 all would have been better. Probably 3. Bd7 would be the least complicated.
4. d4 does nothing to improve your position, and in fact, wastes a move that should have been used developing your pieces. Even worse is that the pawn on d5 was helping to control the center, on d4 it's nothing more than a target.
One more thing... on move 9, after carelessly losing his knight, white wanted to swap queens for some reason that's unclear. You avoided the swap. Most times when you have a material advantage, every trade increases the relative value of that advantage (assuming you don't give up something important, or fall into some trap by trading). You should have snatched that Queen so fast that she got whiplash.
This says you are operating without a plan, and every opening must have a plan, a strategy or a reason or objective why you should moves any pawn or piece to any particular square. One thing you can't do in chess (to be successful at all) is to waste moves. One could just think about it generally and say your plan is to develop your pieces (get the off the back rank and castle to connect your rooks) and control the center. Usually openings are more specific, but even that most general of plans is something and, in lieu of anything more specific, should be adhered to.
I have posted Pandolfini's 62 commandments of Chess which is a good thing to read and heed. While nothing should be considered doctrine, there are guiding princples that every chess player should know: http://sbchess.sinfree.net/pandolf.html
If the opponent brings out their queen, all you do is develop and make sure he can't do something like put a bishop behind it and try to checkmate or win a piece. The queen move is a wasted move because there is nothing that it can do effectivly during this time. You'll probably be able to make him move his queen while you are developing and that gains time for you. If his queen becomes dangerous exchange the queens, it's usually quite easy all you do is take the squares that his queen is taking. If he declines the trade than you have those squares. But, the important thing to remebember when your opponent brings their queen out early is to plan ahead (as always) so he doesn't come up with a attack or something. Queen is more of a middle game and endgame piece. It's not good for the opening because there is pawns, knights, bishops everywhere and you dont want it to get stuck with those pieces, while you can exchange your knight, bishop, or pawn.
when he played Qf4 i would have traded off, because you were up material and by the looks of it you were a much stronger player and he would have had doubled pawns on the f file. if you can ever trade off queens and be up a bishop rook or knight do it because form there you will probably trade off all the other pieces and have maybe a rook and pawns or bishop and pawns against king and pawns
I'm always iffy about trading queens; it always scared me losing that much mobility.
Thanks batgirl, that shed alot more perspecitve on the game. I always meant to develop a sound overall strategy but I never got to it sadly. Lack of plan does lead to wasted moves. It makes me feel like a nomad in the middle of the arctic
you played the queen too much but great win try to develope your other pieces and dont give up pieces for nothing
starrydagger wrote:
I'm always iffy about trading queens; it always scared me losing that much mobility.
Trading material when your up is almost always an advantage
pawn=1 knight/bishop=3 rook=5 queen=9
u had 36 points of material, he had 33
not trading he has 91.6% as much strength as u
subtract the queens its 27 vs 24
if u trade queens he is down to 88.8% as much power as you
Tell me what you think. What could have been stronger moves for me and what mistakes did I make?
I'm still a decently new player so any advice is welcomed