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Exciting chess games sound like they're fun to play, I hope one day to play one.
It's a shame all I play is boring chess.
Does anyone have any tips on how to be more exciting?
Play 1. e4, be attacking.
1. d4 sounds like an idea, but 1. e4 is a very commital move. I don't want to be playing against someone's pet opening against 1. e4.
What if they study openings instead of just going off vibes?
That sounds scary.
#14 Rook. Also I think Knights are better in closed positions and Bishops are better in open positions but in the endgame Bishops are way better.
Whichever rook you move to the open file will be the wrong one. Discuss.
#14 knight versus rook is not a big question, in the 99.9% of the positions a rook is much stronger. But the bishop versus knight is a big question indeed.
What people are forgetting is that the knight has swag, the bishop and rook? No swag. That's why the Knight>Rook/Bishop.
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#20, everyone knows that, but still, in real life most of the cases the rook is stronger than a knight or a bishop.
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Well, sometimes I play chess
All of the other pieces move along open lines. Bishops move along diagonal lines, Rooks along horizontal or vertical lines, Queens along any available open line... and that is why those pieces can be blocked. No open lines? No movement.
The Knights are the rebels of the chessboard. They contemptuously reject your buttoned-down unimaginative "horizontal/vertical/diagonal" conventions and instead move directly from point to point, not along an open line... and this is why a Knight cannot be blocked.
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