Dirty Chess Secrets.

I've never actually finished a chess book.

I play the Ruy Lopez every chance I get, and I still don't really know what I'd do after;

Look it up in games explorer?

Off the top of my head I would imagine 7.d4 and this probably transposes into the Open Defense.

i think try to pin the knight on the e file and win it with an eventual f4.

It's probably D4, I might play it like a Berlin. But I don't actually know what the line would be.

But this isn't about the Ruy Lopez open game. Tell everyone some secrets about your chess game.

I'm horrible at endgames. Whenever my opponent resigns because they've lost a pawn instead of playing out the endgame, I'm delighted to gain the point. 

Forgive me, I have sinned...

I've never played 1. e4 in a rated game.

Sometimes I only consider one move when it's my turn.

Once in a blitz tournament I offered a draw from a worse position, my opponent declined so I flagged him.

I have enforced the touch move rule in a blitz tournament (the rule was announced before the round).

Twice I have taken a draw before leaving opening theory.

It appears Bd5 would immediately win back a pawn, but black would seem to have an advantage after that.

So better might be 7 Re1!, d5? 8 d3, Nc5 9 Nxe5

I always wanted to try 7 Nxe5, Nxe5 8 Re1 d5? 9. d3   - this is probably flawed, as I haven't seen it in a book before, but never really learned why it's flawed.

Pretty funny, I was about to suggest Bxf7+, followed by Qd5+ to regain the pawn with a superior position.

Secrets, yes I know what you mean. The sort of secrets like "what if my opponent accepts the queen's gambit - how do I win the pawn back?" type of secrets. Those can all be called holes in your opening repertoire. It's difficult to ascertain all of them, but you know them or are reminded of them in-game, and then of course forget all about them afterwards.

I think I've offered a draw in a live chess game before with a winning or better position (I'm sure my opponent was happy to get a half-point), but it was because I absolutely HAD to leave at that point. So of course they don't know it, but in reality if they play on, I have to resign. :-)

haha me too

Ah sins yes

In a blitz game I lost my Queens rook as white, subseqently I castled long using the kings rook from the adjacent board, nobody noticed. Until the guy tried to castle the controller looked around the floor and then plonked my rook back there from where Black had left it.

The first recycled rook

I won the game and kepy Shtum

Ok I was about 10 but it is still pretty dirty.

Regards

Dave

pay attention rich, it was a blitz game, I offered the draw because even though my position was worse my opponent was about to lose on time. He declined, so I flagged him for the win.

I could never understand why players take 10 minutes to play the opening moves of a known book line.

So, I don't want to seem different, and I pretend to think when I'm already sure what I'm going to play.

I don't have a proper opening repertoire

I lose drawn games because I can't seem to stop myself from trying to find a win

I'm rated over 100 points higher than my best ever win

I learned not to make moves while drunk the hard way

I've only played three games OTB since the eighties, all three were in the past two years and all three were against the same opponent

I'm dismal at blitz and need hours if not days to find my best move

I confessed to an affair I wasn't having so my wife wouldn't think I had a chess problem.

That's one more than me on occasion

i hope that's a joke, because i almost spat coffee all over my monitor when i read that.

When playing live chess:

-I sometimes don't look ahead at all, I play a move purely because I think it's positionally good, without considering opponent's tactics.

-Similarly, I often play some openings almost like systems. I do take a look at the opponent's previous moves, but only for a few seconds.

-When I come across complex, open, tactical positions (all at the same time), either I become a coward or go berserk. Usually I try to exchange into the endgame, even though I'm not good at that either. Endgames are just less dangerous. But if the middle-game position is specially complex and tactical, then I start attacking, because I think that whatever I do, I would most likely make a mistake anyway. And I often squeezed out a mate when insanely attacking, because of opponent's blunder - I know I would make a defensive blunder under pressure, so I better be the one who makes the attacking blunder and let the opponent make defensive one. I like complex positions in correspondence chess though, but ~30 seconds of time in live chess is not enough for me to calculate everything.

-I resign, when I lose a pawn by overlooking that the pawn was hanging. I sometimes even resign when I mess up the opening, yet material is still equal. I don't think that the game is lost and I also don't think that my opponent deserves the win. But I know where I went wrong and I don't want to be reminded of that for the rest of the game, even if I'd win - which has happened quite a few times, but I don't find pleasure in that at all.

We sound like the exact same person. I do all of that.

-When I come across complex, open, tactical positions (all at the same time), either I become a coward or go berserk.

This is me 100%

 Arent u like 12..?

and d4 would be the correct line, i always play this line and i have been successful.