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Bishop is the most important piece?
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Everything the OP is saying is utter hogwash and merely a complaint that he doesn't understand how to defend against batteries along a diagonal.
No one piece is always the most important, not even the Queen, although the queen winds up the most important piece the majority of the time, but not always! A dominant Rook, Bishop, Knight, or even a pawn one or two moves from promoting could be the most important. Depends solely on the position at hand.
If he really thinks the Bishop is most important, try looking at many games in the Huebner Variation of the Nimzo-Indian where it reaches an endgame with White having the Dark-squared Bishop and Black a knight. Now which is the most important piece? If you say that Bishop, I will play black against you $100 a game, starting from a typical huebner nimzo endgame where you have the DSB and I have the Knight. You might have an outside chance of drawing, but absolutely no win for White to play for. A 2-result endgame. 0-1 or draw.
edwin14k wrote:
As my rating hits 1900, most opponents seem to have a single strategy. Queen + bishop to attack on opponent king to get checkmate. Unless you play white, it is not very easy to work on this strategy, which is why so many refuses to play black. Is this normal??? Even the players at 2000 rating still struggle not to lose the white bishop even it means sacrificing anything else. I am not complaining, but getting tired of such plays.
Do you have any examples of players you have faced that exclusively play one color? Also why are you complaining about people coordinating their pieces? Next are you going to complain about people using tactics to win pieces? I mean it is so unfair that your opponents actually try to win the game, they should have stopped and considered how them winning would make you feel. What a selfish lot!
As my rating hits 1900, most opponents seem to have a single strategy. Queen + bishop to attack on opponent king to get checkmate. Unless you play white, it is not very easy to work on this strategy, which is why so many refuses to play black. Is this normal??? Even the players at 2000 rating still struggle not to lose the white bishop even it means sacrificing anything else. I am not complaining, but getting tired of such plays.