You shut down your attack with 30..f3.
You are right. After that it should have been a draw.
Even though your "kingside attack" eventually does work out nicely, locking away white's bishop forever, being effectively a piece up, it was a bad idea when played. H6 when you aren't kicking a bishop and g5 are slow, and create weakness. That just isn't an "attack". If white had played 13. be3 g5 14 f4 is extremely favorable for white, opening the f-file and leaving black with kingside weaknesses - it is black that will get attacked here. At move 12, if the knight was on e7, f5 would be a natural way to attack white's center. With the knight on f6, you would probably do better to prepare and play d5. If you dont challenge white's center in some way, white will prepare and play f4 with a realistic plan of attacking your kingside.
You shut down your attack with 30..f3.
You are right. After that it should have been a draw.
After f3 he is effectively up material with the bishop permanently out of play unless sacced for pawn(s). Usually such a position can be won. With the one white rook misplaced, pressure on the ffile is certainly an alternative and may be stronger, just saying f3 looks sufficient for a winnable game.
Thanks everyone. If it isn't too much trouble, can someone make a checklist of some sort of when the right time to do one of these attacks should be. Thanks
Thanks so much IMBacon. Your analysis helped out a lot. To improve from my rating based on the game, what do you recommend I focus on. Tactics, strategy, opening theory, endgame technique, or a mixture of all of them. Thanks
Thanks so much IMBacon. Your analysis helped out a lot. To improve from my rating based on the game, what do you recommend I focus on. Tactics, strategy, opening theory, endgame technique, or a mixture of all of them. Thanks
Until your 2000...your first name is tactics, your middlename is tactics, and your last name is tactics. Besides the importance of tactics. Get a well rounded study program. Study all phases of the game. Think of it like working out. You dont just work on your arms, and ignore the rest of your body? Knowing an opening 20 moves deep means squat if youre dropping pieces, and missing simple tactics. Studying endgames like a fiend wont help, if you dont even have a basic undestanding of opening principles. Keep on doing our own analysis, and posting for others to review.
I disagree with imbacon about move 10. Taking the Knight is actually a great idea. Why? It all revolves around the D4 square. That is a hole, and it would make a wonderful square for any of black's pieces. The white Knight could defend D4, and the black bishop cannot attack it, so the trade allows black to establish control over the square. Black dreams of exchanging minor pieces so that black has one Knight and white has his light squared bishop, which leaves white in a near lost position. If I had played the game, I would have ignored the possible attack, because nothing suggested it would work, and focused on the D4 square. This is all very advanced, so I would not have expected a 1200 in a blitz game to find this idea. Full analysis later.
I highly recommend getting your hands on Vukovic's "Art of the Attack".
He has a whole section on pawn storming including 10 practical tips with additional ideas on how and when to start, how to follow through and what you look for in finishing one (plus how to defend too). There's a ton of insight (including ideas brought up in this thread). Definitely eye opening for me when i first read it.
thanks for the recommendation. Do you think someone like me would understand the content though, or should I wait until i am higher rated?
Hmm, it's hard to say because everyone is different. The book in general is not exactly for new comers I guess.
Along those lines, I second IMBacon that for quite some time it's just "tactics, tactics, tactics", and a balanced approached to learning the basic principles of the opening, middle and endgames. That your analyzing your own games and seeking insight from those better than yourself means you'll do well if you stick with it.
So maybe file it away for some future date if there is a fear it might be too much now, but I guarantee that book, whenever it's appropriate, will be a great thing to have and go through, for pawn storms but also for just attacking chess in general.
Some say you should just work on tactics and nothing but tactics in all phases of the game. But that is not sufficient, you do need to look at other aspects as well.
Imagine this situation: A player starts a new game, he has white. He was told to focus 100% on tactics. So he looks at the start position, but can't find any tactics. What does he do then? Well, he doesn't know, so he just makes a random move since he has to move.
Then some people say, develop your pieces especially develop them to good places, get control of the center. But that is positional thinking and not tactics and he was told only to focus on tactics!?!?! See what I mean?
Tactics is something you always have in mind when playing, but positional play is also something you are concerned about. After all positional play has something to do with the position and everytime you make a move you are doing something to the position, you simply can't avoid having the position in mind as well as tactics.
So look at how you can improve your position and look for tactics before you make your move.
Hey, everyone. I recently tried using a kingside attack as an experiment in one of my own games. I have looked at a couple of example games from Logical Chess by Irving Chernev, and I wanted to try it out for myself. I am about 1200 in playing mostly 10 minute blitz, and have played chess for about a year now. I am very open to any feedback or suggestions you have about my playing style or anything else. Here is the game I just played with my own analysis. I am black in the game.
Thanks for reading through that giant block of text. I did not win that game because of anything I did and definitely do not want to brag about my victory. I know wins are not usually posted to this forum and I thank you for your understanding. Look forward to reading your posts.