I Lost My Queen!
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Feb 16, 2012
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#2
if i still have attacking chances ill continue but otherwise ill take a rematch
Sure in Blitz or Bullet chess anything can happen in that short time frame Play-On ! But at longer time controls the only compensation for the loss of your queen is a decisive mateing attack or pawn promotion , the games posted of where people have blundered their queen and went on to win are few and far between! 
Two rooks are sometimes stronger than one queen.
UniqueAirplane wrote:
Two rooks are sometimes stronger than one queen.
True, but there's no compensation if your opponent still has two rooks.
ArchangelGuy wrote:
It irratates me when someone of a higher rank forfeits the game after losing his/her queen.
I should have such problems...
ArchangelGuy wrote:
How many of you quit the game after you lose your queen? It irratates me when someone of a higher rank forfeits the game after losing his/her queen.
I must admit that I do it myself, but it is very annoying when you have a "game in the bag", and someone resigned
Due to poor play and oversights I frequently lose my queen in the opening. However, if i play on, often I end up winning the game. Here is one such recent example. I lost my queen on move 16 because of a pure blunder and went on to grind out a win. Personally, I believe that perhaps your opponent becomes overconfident and careless after snagging one's queen.
May 5, 2013
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#9
I lost my queen to the OP just now very early on in a Bullet game - stayed in and plugged up the board, was winning on time and then he made a mistake and I checkmated him: such is the nature of Bullet. I think the key advice is that if you do lost your queen to a blunder, complicate the board - don't exchange pieces, try to lock things up. Correspondingly, if you DO manage to catch your opponent out with this trick, SIMPLIFY - exchange anything you can and open up the board as much as possible, so you can use your decisive piece advantage.
I think the world-famous legendary classic rock band Led Zeppelin put it best in a song ("Tangerine"), on their third album,
Measuring a summer's day, I only finds it slips away to grey,
The hours, they bring me pain.
[Chorus]
Tangerine, Tangerine, Living reflection from a dream;
I was her love, she was my queen, And now a thousand years between.
Thinking how it used to be, Does she still remember times like these?
To think of us again? And I do.
How many of you quit the game after you lose your queen? It irratates me when someone of a higher rank forfeits the game after losing his/her queen. I try not to use my queen and I even use it to take someone else's queen because I feel it makes me think harder and faster when I have no queen. Plus, the game feels so much sweeter if I win with no queen.