Why too much defense is bad

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kukfuq

Although playing with black pieces in a 5|0 blitz game, I played aggressively and white was on the defensive, most of the time reinforcing its position. At one stage it seemed white had blunted my attack, and was ready for its offense but I continued attacking and white played too defensively and ultimately resigned when it was one move short of mate. White played all right but was too defensive and in that mindset even let go my only blunder unpunished and also in that mindset forgot about the piece that actually needs to be defended. 



RobertPaulson13

1. Careful, you might cut someone with a name as edgy as that.

2. 6.Bb7 is a mistake. While it may seem natural for the bishop to be placed on b7, we need to look at the imbalances of the position. 

3. White will look to use his space advantage to form a king-side attack, while black has to focus his full efforts on the c4 pawn. thematic moves for black are Ba6, Nc6-Na5, c5, cxd4, Rc8.

kukfuq

Thanks for your suggestions. I appreciate the way you remark about my name although I for some reason chose this provocative name.

kukfuq
With_every_step wrote:

White wasn't particularly defensive, just focussed around their earlier centre. This would usually be used as a platform to attack. Neither was Black that offensive. It might be misleading to draw such a conclusion from it, securing their central pawns in some fashion is something that most players would attempt. If anything, White's pieces are too disparate and Black occasionally draws them into place.

In a subtle way, white was defensive and playing those little defensive moves made it lose the game. Whether you see it or not depends upons your insight or the lack of it.  

thelondonsystrn
kukfuq wrote:
With_every_step wrote:

White wasn't particularly defensive, just focussed around their earlier centre. This would usually be used as a platform to attack. Neither was Black that offensive. It might be misleading to draw such a conclusion from it, securing their central pawns in some fashion is something that most players would attempt. If anything, White's pieces are too disparate and Black occasionally draws them into place.

In a subtle way, white was defensive and playing those little defensive moves made it lose the game. Whether you see it or not depends upons your insight or the lack of it.  

Nothing wrong with a strong defense, failing to punish a blunder is a weak and poor defense though, as black can use an unpunished blunder to regain a strong position in the immediate while giving black a chance to actually break through whites defenses with it's initial intentions instead of merely blundering.