dmeng wrote:
I personally need work on the late opening and middlegame, though my endgame isn't exactly good either.
UPDATE: I just blew an ending while a rook up, just to give an idea of how much I need to work on it.
Which phase in chess is the toughest for you to handle?
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Late middlegame. I REALLY suck at really open games with queens on the board, and not many other pieces. I can't count how many times I've had a winning peoition against a 1700+ player and blown it in the late middlegame.
Probably the middle game although sometimes the endgame
after 16 years
for me its the late middlegame- endgame transition, when theres an open positions with queens I let the queen wander in to my position
Great question...though the answers aren't going to help any of us :P
I walk a fine line with openings. I understand there's a lot of tried and tested theory there, but I can't help but feel that that theory is a result of something deeper. Some insight. Some basic principles that are applied, but applied with flexibility. So I don't subscribe to "book" playing, and...well...my opening game suffers as a result because I'm not a chess genius :) But dammit, I'm going to keep trying until I attain the spirit of the opening rather than the rehashed theory of it.
Middle game...I swing like a pendulum between absolutely stunning insights and outright drooling stupidity.
Eng game. Particularly those pawn/king endgame situations. I abjectly suck. I keep trying to see it, but I just can't.