You should first work on not dropping pieces, missing simple tactics, and avoiding back rank mates.
Then you should forget about titles like "agressive" and "passive"
Follow that up with tactics...tactics...tactics...and...Opening Principles:
Control the center
Develop minor pieces toward the center
Castle
Connect your rooks
I appreciate your advice, but is it possible to change suddenly after I've been labelled by those terms for most of my life? All of the openings that I know are immediaely breaking some rules of chess.. so for starters, can you suggest an opening IDEA (not opening e.g. ruy lopez, guico piano) that I can work towards in my games? Also do you recommend a book or a site for the above?
I think what are sometimes perceived as passive players are simply just lazy players. And no offence, I include myself in this description as well.
A 'passive' player will find a move - which is normally quite easy to do - which doesn't lose any material and seems to hold everything together. The problem is that it doesn't challenge the opponent either and this means that the opponent will be able to bring more and more force to bear on you until in the end you (usually) crack and cannot find that safe move anymore. Conversely, an 'active' player will think hard about every position and explore possible ways to gain an advantage. This requires hard work and determination and a solid skill of using tactics.
But I would take the advice of Diakonia and forget about things like active and passive play. Where I have used passive one could also use 'not very good' and where I have used active one could use 'good'. Seek to be a good player and find the best move in the position.
Try playing active and aggresive openings to get more of a feel for that type of chess. Then, when you feel you are ready, switch back to your normal openings.
A friend at my former club had something similar. Although not passive he wanted to play more creative. He decided (for a while) to make in every game a pawn sacrifice to get initiative, or some compensation, or a wild attack. Worked out better than you would think. He is a 2100 + player now.
1. e4 e5; 2. kf3 kc6; 3. d4..
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Ow, Master pfren has spoken some wise words there! Fully agree it starts with not giving away stuff. I immediately retract my pawn sacrifice idea. That may not be what you need right now.
I appreciate your advice, but is it possible to change suddenly after I've been labelled by those terms for most of my life? All of the openings that I know are immediaely breaking some rules of chess.. so for starters, can you suggest an opening IDEA (not opening e.g. ruy lopez, guico piano) that I can work towards in my games? Also do you recommend a book or a site for the above?
Again...FORGET labels...and AGAIN:
You should first work on not dropping pieces, missing simple tactics, and avoiding back rank mates.
Then you should forget about titles like "agressive" and "passive"
Follow that up with tactics...tactics...tactics...and...Opening Principles:
Control the center
Develop minor pieces toward the center
Castle
Connect your rooks
If you are still dropping pieces, missing simple tactics, and falling for back rank mates, you HAVE NO STYLE. The best thing you can do for your chess game is to master the basics. Forget about what people label you as.
I gave you the opeing ideas you need to understand. Good Luck.
Ever since starting playing chess, I have always played 1. d4 and gone for a peaceful slav or QGD exchange variation. After doing a fair bit of self study, I was able to get to an (in my opinion) decent rating of 1398 for a 13 y/o boy. But after playing a few competitive tournaments, I have noticed the following points about my play style:
I would much rather defend for a draw than attack for a win, I always get too complacent after having a decent position, I am stubborn with whatever plan I settle for, even if there are obvious tactics on the board and I am never able to finish a decisive attack even if the mating net has been laid out.
After noticing the following things about my play, I decided that I will need to reboot; that is, to start learning chess from the beginning as many people have said that I am wasting my talent to be playing defensive or passive chess at such a young age.
How should I go about starting with chess again, so as to get some intuition for attacking and/or some reasonable ability to play aggressively?
I know a lot of players don't like bullet and blitz, but I was like you for a while.
After playing faster time controls, though, I learned to be more aggressive, to use (or fight for) the initiative, and to pursue immediate tactics.
So, my advice: play faster time controls. Then, review your games afterward to find where you could've improved. (This part's important. If you don't review and find your mistakes, you'll struggle to improve. If you do review and find your mistakes, you'll improve much faster.)
Do tactical puzzles, too. Those also help your brain get used to searching for combinations.
Best of luck!
1. e4 e5; 2. kf3 kc6; 3. d4..
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3...exd4
You are just 13y old. And 1398 rated. Both numbers are too low to determinate your chess life and chess style. Don't yet worry about that. Stick to basics and study and learn theory and tactics. Most importhant is not to blunder free pieces. Work on checkmate patterns, tactics motives, endgame study like king and pawn vs king, pawn chains, watch some videos how master plays or lessons.
Ever since starting playing chess, I have always played 1. d4 and gone for a peaceful slav or QGD exchange variation. After doing a fair bit of self study, I was able to get to an (in my opinion) decent rating of 1398 for a 13 y/o boy. But after playing a few competitive tournaments, I have noticed the following points about my play style:
After noticing the following things about my play, I decided that I will need to reboot; that is, to start learning chess from the beginning as many people have said that I am wasting my talent to be playing defensive or passive chess at such a young age.
How should I go about starting with chess again, so as to get some intuition for attacking and/or some reasonable ability to play aggressively?