This is why you shouldnt push pawns. Development always wins.

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tactician_prodigy

My opponent had slow/bad development and i capitalized quickly. Heres the game with annotation by me.

shuttlechess92

nice. notice black makes a w with his moved pieces on move 7. I found that ironic when considering w means win.

LeechSeed

In the game you posted I noticed that whenever black was pushing their pawns in the opening they weren't exactly making any direct threats and so gave you ample time to develop your minor pieces and get ahead in development.

Being a player of a lower rating than you, maybe it's not my place to say this with my lesser experience: but I have occasionally found pushing pawns to be an advantage so long as they are making direct threats to my opponent's pieces in the opening stage of the game.

For instance, in a game I played not too long ago, I pushed the same pawn 3 times in the opening stage; however, every move was a direct attack on my opponent's Knight and therefore they had no time to develop their other minor pieces. Each time I kicked their Knight I expanded my control of the centre with my pawns; this prevented my opponent from playing a (presumed) flank opening (possibly involving a fianchettod Bishop), and despite an unforgivable blunder on my part (which resulted in an unfavourable exchange of Queens), they (eventually) lost their Rook to my Knight as I was able to find solid outposts for my minor pieces, paralyse their King and create a series of double attacks that prevented my opponent from getting ahead in development throughout the game.

But in general I do agree with you; just saying that I think they are exceptions. :)

 




ClavierCavalier

How do these old threads pop back up?  PO55UM had to have found it somewhere.