Chess and risk taking

It is common knowledge that Chess is all about strategy. Chess is hailed as one of the best games for using and developing strategy but there is more to it than that. In addition to strategy there is also, from my experience, a certain amount of gambling and risk taking involved. Sometimes you make a move or moves and anticipate your opponent will do this or that when they could very well do something else. Sometimes you go for a certain setup and hope your opponent will fall for it and so you take the chance they will fall for it in that regard.

"Sometimes you go for a certain setup and hope your opponent will fall for it and so you take the chance they will fall for it in that regard."

That is called Hope Chess.  It is a horrible way to play, as it creates bad habits.

Well I see your highest rating is over 1800 so Im nowhere in your league in terms of chess. I would love to learn from you. Sometimes I can see up to six moves ahead but apparently grandmasters can see twenty moves ahead, that's amazing.

Its not a matter of how many moves ahead you can see.  That is an overblown,and not entirely true statement people like to make.

This is a game you lost in 10 moves.  That wouldn't have happened if you could see 6 moves ahead.

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GM's have great intuition and instincts.   Instead of trying to calculate 20 moves ahead, they often find the best candidate move, for any continuation, and play that.   If you can calculate 6 moves ahead (per player) in a timed game, you're doing excellent.   I can only look that far ahead in daily games.   

I understand OP. Playing speculatively sometimes but not every game. It's really fun! This speculative attack is applicable on blitz and rapid games. At U1800, majority of players cannot play defence

Well, this is my playstyle and mindset to setting up thing and hope my opponent will blindly go to the trap. But unfortunately i realize it's not good thing and engine always rate my set up move as inaccuracy or even a mistake. I feel bold strong move and always became the best move for most of scenario. Now i'm always try to avoid it

Really?  Amazing.  He's so good that he probably only has to follow one variation 100 moves deep though, because he always finds the best move.   I usually come up with 2-4 candidate moves and calculate about 5-10 moves deep for each one.   Once I'm satisfied that I am equal or better in all lines of a particular variation, I stop calculating and make the move that I feel is best.   That's in daily chess though, not in a timed game.

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My rating is only 800 but I know not to play hope chesa. Great players dont take risks. They beat you with their skills. No need to take risks, they are risks.. Outsmart your opponent, use tactics and some forcing lines to give you advantage. 

I like to see you play Mikhail Tal. But since he's dead, just look for a high end chess engine that plays dangerous moves. (Long ago, Chess Junior used to wear that hat. No idea what engines currently like to play aggressive moves.)

Yep...

When you play you should always anticipate that your opponent will play the best move in the position and this is what you prepare for. When your opponent makes a mistake or falls for a trap then you punish it, but you never hope/expect your opponent will play something stupid in the position without any reason to, i.e. no time on the clock.

It's not gambling but educated guessing.

There are also situations when the position –clearly– demands something from each player. There's no guessing there but either realizing it or not.

I'm sure that this must have been said already, but you are describing "hope chess" which is the wrong way to play.   Chess is all strategy and no luck, if played 100% accurately.   The problem is that, as humans, we're not capable of playing 100% accurately.   So, play the best, most accurate, solid moves that you can play and then try to take advantage of the inaccuracies of your opponent.   If you play hope chess (cheapo tactics and unsound sacrifices, while hoping for your opponent not to see something), you'll never break the 1800 level and probably won't break the 1500 level.   

What i mean by "hope chess" is playing a move that is bad, but hoping your opponent doesn't see a reply that wins.