I think the exchange is born more out of fear than anything. The Queen is the most powerful piece, after all, and it does yield the most points, so I guess it would make sense that you would want to take it by any means possible, granted the points difference is not too high. Especially if you're at a lower rating than your opponent, actually. That would just make you even more scared for your opponent to have a Queen.
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well in this case it was not just a queen trade.... by trading queens you were forced to move your king and by that became unable to castle also d file was quite open for blacks rook
Whites 6. c4? was a very bad move. Black can then trade queens as after the queen trade he can play Nxe4 with a winning position.
If you can trade queens and end up with a winning position--do it.
You always need a reason for trading queens or any move you might make.
Many Pieces en prise were pardoned there...
The Queen exchange can be objectively good for you in many occasions:
- when you are clearly winning, especially because of a material advantage with no positional and dynamic compensation for the opponent (this shouldn't happen in the opening)
- when your opponent is attacking your King and you have no counterplay (this shouldn't happen in the opening)
- when it costs your opponent the right to casle (usually because of a forced recapture with the King), and most of the other Pieces are still on the board
- when it invduces a development advantage for you, because the opponent's Piece which recapture is forced back on an undesirable square (e.g. where it hampers other Pieces' movements; if it's a Knight, when it is put on a bad "circuit"; if it's a Bishop, when it is moved away from an important diagonal which you can then take control of yourself; etc.), while your Pieces have (more) free movement and better control of key lines and/or of the centre
Nontheless, some players prefer to keep from exchanging Queens because they feel their strenghts (or even their fun in playing Chess) are to be found in tactical play and attacking strategies, so they might chose continuations that are objectively (slighly) worse just in order to keep the Queens on the board.
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What is White doing with 4 c3 anyway? Just 4 d5 puts Black on the run.
True. It was a 1 minute game and I'm not very good!
True also PedoneMedio . I do feel that something is taken away from the game when queens are exchanged this early.
Thanks everyone for your answers. A bit of insight into it there. I'll aim to keep my queen if possible and bear in mind the possible reasons for exchaning so early.
Such queen exchanges are depends on who you are playing against. If you are much stronger than your opponent, it is a mistake to exchange queen's this way. (I am not talking about the above position of course) You will just make your task harder. But, if you are about equal, you may play it to create an endgame position. Then the better player wins.
I like to Trade the queens Against
In position where you have an advantage fx a good bishop or a pawn more it is a good idea to Trade queens. Queens=counterplay
I learned that either white or black, the early queen trade to stop king from castling is good. plus it has the added effect of driving fear into the hearts of opponents. They know you are not going to play a passive game, I tried this once since I hate it so much when computer does it to me and realised its a good tactical move and scare tactic.
You should stop playing one minute games and learn the game better.
You are not helping yourself with these one minute games.
ponz111 wrote:
You should stop playing one minute games and learn the game better.
You are not helping yourself with these one minute games.
which is why you only play 1 minute games i see
My favorite time to exchange Queens early is when my opponent brings her out on move 2 or 3. My experience has been that players who bring out their Queen so early, don't really know how to play without her (players at my patzer level, that is).
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I posted exactly this question about 4 months ago. There was apparently no name for that common type of queen trade. I've started calling it the "Queen Slap," which is a more polite/publishable version of a name somebody suggested in that thread, and with fewer adult connotations than the name I suggested there.
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/want-names-for-these-situations
The "Queen Slap" usually favors the side doing the "slapping" since it prevents the opponent's king from castling, but it seems to be playable/survivable for the "slappee" in most cases I've seen. Personally I like being slapped as Black in the positions I play because it hastens a draw, which is a good thing to do against a stronger player.
I keep coming across this move late in an opening where queens are exchanged at the earliest possible time, in this example blacks 6th move (6…Qxd1+). I thought it may make sense where a higher rated opponent is more likely to make better use of his queen so his disadvantage would be greater but I’ve found it in players of higher rating too. More so in 1 minute games in live chess. Would there be an advantage to white (in this example) preventing this move? How does this benefit black? Is there a name for this kind of move?
6…Qxd1+