En Passant to gain mental advantage
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Guys I will be deleting this article and adding as a blog post.
Dec 6, 2016
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VladimirHerceg91 wrote:
Knowing the rule of en passant is the mark of an advanced chess player. Now, I am at a stage between a beginner and an advanced player. I believe that aside from mere rankings, perception is also important in determining how good a chess player is. For this reason, every time I see an "en passant" opportunity in my games I take it. Even if its not the best move in the position. I do this to gain a mental edge over my opponent. It is possible that my opponent has never seen the move, and will proceed to complain in the chat about a glitch. I will then proceed to tell him that it's a legal move called "en passant". This will mentally bury my opponent when they notice that they're not as advanced in chess theory as I am.
Now, lets say I didn't take an en passant opportunity. In this case I would be giving the mental edge to my opponent. The opponent will think that I don't know the rule of "en passant", and will assume that his chess theory is actually more advanced than mine. This will allow him to grow in confidence. I understand that these sort of strategies are unimportant on the higher level, but the purpose of blog post is to help beginners.
So to all the beginner players looking to gain a mental advantage, look up en passant. Study the move, apply it, and you will see results.
That only works when you are just starting out. Good players will look at all possible moves equally, and not get flustered because it's a 'special' move. Choosing en passant when there's a better move would be silly.
Bilbo21 wrote:
VladimirHerceg91 wrote:
Knowing the rule of en passant is the mark of an advanced chess player. Now, I am at a stage between a beginner and an advanced player. I believe that aside from mere rankings, perception is also important in determining how good a chess player is. For this reason, every time I see an "en passant" opportunity in my games I take it. Even if its not the best move in the position. I do this to gain a mental edge over my opponent. It is possible that my opponent has never seen the move, and will proceed to complain in the chat about a glitch. I will then proceed to tell him that it's a legal move called "en passant". This will mentally bury my opponent when they notice that they're not as advanced in chess theory as I am.
Now, lets say I didn't take an en passant opportunity. In this case I would be giving the mental edge to my opponent. The opponent will think that I don't know the rule of "en passant", and will assume that his chess theory is actually more advanced than mine. This will allow him to grow in confidence. I understand that these sort of strategies are unimportant on the higher level, but the purpose of blog post is to help beginners.
So to all the beginner players looking to gain a mental advantage, look up en passant. Study the move, apply it, and you will see results.
That only works when you are just starting out. Good players will look at all possible moves equally, and not get flustered because it's a 'special' move. Choosing en passant when there's a better move would be silly.
Like I said, the blog post is meant to help beginners. I recognize that knowing en passant is the mark of an advanced player. Therefore ti would not have any psychological effect on an advanced player. I mentioned all that in the post.
as I said in another post.
knowing the proper rules of chess is NOT the mark of an advanced player. its the mark of a Chessplayer- and really just the beginning of huge amount of knowledge a chess player must master to be strong.
playing it when it does not represent the best move in the position is simply silly.
....whether it is helpful to beginners is a seperate question.
Knowing en passant is not the mark of an advanced player, it is the mark of knowing the rules
Yes, I switched to 1.d4 precisely because of this, you could see all of them sweating and wringing hands.
Ninjakiwi17 wrote:
Knowing en passant is not the mark of an advanced player, it is the mark of knowing the rules
En passant is not rule, it's a tactic.
I think en passant should only be allowed in a French Defence game.
it is NOT a tactic.
"In chess, a tactic refers to a sequence of moves that limits the opponent's options and may result in tangible gain."
wikipedia. a tactic is always a sequence of moves of makes threats that cannot be met. (my own definition)
there is no threat in the en passant and is not a sequence of moves.
alexm2310 wrote:
Vlad, are you b3?
No, the great Bobby Fischer once said "E4 best by test", so I always play E4.
b3 was played by Larsen right?
sounds like a clever choice indeed, why not? perhaps knowing 1.b3 is a mark of an advanced player??
Dec 7, 2016
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I'm gonna start doing it. I need every edge I can get against the computer. :-)
ah perfect.
clearly you sir are the advanced the player the op has been looking for.
he already blasted his way out of mos eisley.
I'm afraid its your lot to tell the darth what happened. good luck and if you don't survive I have dibs on your stuff.
thegreat_patzer wrote:
ah perfect.
clearly you sir are the advanced the player the op has been looking for.
he already blasted his way out of mos eisley.
I'm afraid its your lot to tell the darth what happened. good luck and if you don't survive I have dibs on your stuff.
What in the world are you talking about?