Followup on recent chess style forum.

So today i began experimenting or testing how i play in terms of style. I believe i can play both styles but, however me at my best is slightly more tactical than positional. otherwise i get caught up in the ideas instead of calculating variations and make a blunder. The following games are games i played today:

Until you're a very strong player, there's no such thing as style. To say that a club player is "an attacking player" really means that he/she's a weak player who happens to be not so weak in attacking. 

In most positions, there is a single, or maybe a few very good moves that all go towards one "style" - an example is that you don't get to attack whenever you want, but only when the position is right - otherwise an attacking move is not based on "style", but based on misunderstanding of the position. 

We don't call that an "attacking move", we call it a mistake. 

For example, I'm very weak at attacking, and not so weak at defense/grabbing material. That doesn't mean I'm a defensive player, it just means I'm a weak player who needs to improve attacking skills. 

You need to learn how to play everything reasonably well before you develop style, just like a prospective bodybuilder has to develop muscles first before deciding what shape those muscles are, as an analogy I've heard. 

Also, it's against chess.com's terms of service to have multiple accounts. 

You should decide if you want to keep your current account or the @andrewjeselson2 account. 

Once you get an NM title, you are allowed to get a separate account for testing out things anonymously. 

you can have your own sense of style of play long before you are an expert, unless you are the type that needs to wait until you are expert. sheesh. the forums are dead, full of pathetic trolling.

"Building a repertoire ... we will take the idealized situation of someone starting from square one ... The first step is to think about your personal style. Do you prefer open, tactical positions or closed, strategic positions? Does an attack on your king make you nervous, or are you happy so long as you have a counter-attack? Do you prefer main lines, or something slightly offbeat? Next, look at the various openings available, and see which ones fit in with your personal style. ..." - GM John Nunn (1998)

"... In the majority of positions, there are a number of possible moves of roughly equal merit, ..." - GM John Nunn (2014)

You should be ashamed of having a style because it is just a weakness.

"... [Carlsen's] wins in the pivotal fifth and sixth games of the 2013 match against Anand ... are very much in the Lasker style. ..." - GM John Nunn (2014)