This is relatively good advice for a lot of levels of chess. But eventually, you might reach a level of chess where just not blundering massively isn’t enough to win - at some point you’ll need to learn how to make plans and put pressure on your opponent. If you do this well, you’ll pressure your opponent into making the mistake you’re waiting for!
It’s a lot easier to attack in chess than to defend. Learn to attack well (but patiently) and your elo will skyrocket
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This is relatively good advice for a lot of levels of chess. But eventually, you might reach a level of chess where just not blundering massively isn’t enough to win - at some point you’ll need to learn how to make plans and put pressure on your opponent. If you do this well, you’ll pressure your opponent into making the mistake you’re waiting for!
It’s a lot easier to attack in chess than to defend. Learn to attack well (but patiently) and your elo will skyrocket
Sure, but it's true that if you make less mistakes than your enemy, you'll win. It doesn't only include total blunders, although at the lower levels that's usually all it takes while at higher levels it's a little different.
But blunders are just extremely bad mistakes, while choosing the wrong tactic at a higher level is also a mistake, just more subtle.
I wish it were easy to implement, but I think if you play chess and focus on not messing up by thinking defensive before exploring offensive options at your move, you'll get further than thinking about offensive before defensive.
This is relatively good advice for a lot of levels of chess. But eventually, you might reach a level of chess where just not blundering massively isn’t enough to win - at some point you’ll need to learn how to make plans and put pressure on your opponent. If you do this well, you’ll pressure your opponent into making the mistake you’re waiting for!
It’s a lot easier to attack in chess than to defend. Learn to attack well (but patiently) and your elo will skyrocket
Sure, but it's true that if you make less mistakes than your enemy, you'll win. It doesn't only include total blunders, although at the lower levels that's usually all it takes while at higher levels it's a little different.
But blunders are just extremely bad mistakes, while choosing the wrong tactic at a higher level is also a mistake, just more subtle.
I wish it were easy to implement, but I think if you play chess and focus on not messing up by thinking defensive before exploring offensive options at your move, you'll get further than thinking about offensive before defensive.
I’ll respectfully disagree… at any level above about 1000, just sitting and waiting is going to make you make mistakes more often than it will your opponent.
This is relatively good advice for a lot of levels of chess. But eventually, you might reach a level of chess where just not blundering massively isn’t enough to win - at some point you’ll need to learn how to make plans and put pressure on your opponent. If you do this well, you’ll pressure your opponent into making the mistake you’re waiting for!
It’s a lot easier to attack in chess than to defend. Learn to attack well (but patiently) and your elo will skyrocket
Sure, but it's true that if you make less mistakes than your enemy, you'll win. It doesn't only include total blunders, although at the lower levels that's usually all it takes while at higher levels it's a little different.
But blunders are just extremely bad mistakes, while choosing the wrong tactic at a higher level is also a mistake, just more subtle.
I wish it were easy to implement, but I think if you play chess and focus on not messing up by thinking defensive before exploring offensive options at your move, you'll get further than thinking about offensive before defensive.
I’ll respectfully disagree… at any level above about 1000, just sitting and waiting is going to make you make mistakes more often than it will your opponent.
Well, I am still making too many mistakes at my own level to know about higher level game play, but quite honestly, I think it's universally true: If you think about safety before attacking, you'll not hastily lose a game. Safety always comes first. Just because you THINK of defence before offence, doesn't mean you have to play defensively.
Sure, you should always consider your opponent’s plans and attacks, but there’s a reason why the order of thinking is recommended to be:
checks
captures
attacks
positional improvement
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you’ve got to bear in mind that your opponent will be trying to attack you - the best way to not let them do that is to attack them first. Develop quickly, get your king somewhere safe, and maintain the initiative. I’m not a chess master by any stretch, but I’m around 2000 rated and I promise you that your line of thinking will only get you so far…
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Don't try to win the game. How foolish that would be!
No! All you need to do is not lose the game.
When you play, just avoid blunders and mistakes. No gambits, no tricks, no aggressive play just for the sake of being aggressive.
A perfect game of chess is always going to be a draw. Just let your opponent make a mistake and capitalise on it.
Chess is a defensive game where you can't force a win, you can just play without mistakes or at least less mistakes than whoever you're playing.