I have a potentially growing list of people I gave "Get Well Soon" trophies to. To get a trophy, you need to fall for my little trap and get your king cornered by my 7th move (7.@f7#), or resign one move before that.

Check out the games (🔗 goes to the game)

THE LIST:

SenatorOwens: 🔗
7dasaran2017: 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 (roflmao)
Unbaigneur: 🔗
KanyanutC: 🔗
Cduncan2526: 🔗
Kalorienreduziert: 🔗 (used to be the highest rated player here with 1530)
LachenFenrirs77: 🔗
SUPERMAN233444344: 🔗 (also among honorable mentions)
JSnapis: 🔗
cristo1922: 🔗
zevatron: 🔗
adamerick44: 🔗
Great2V: 🔗
itzjoe88: 🔗
bumblebee333: 🔗
120837495: 🔗
Doctor_Donut: 🔗
nicolasburgosg: 🔗 (highest rated player on the list with 1623)
antomay: 🔗
krystianslater: 🔗
unc07: 🔗
hellomatthew: 🔗
elando3123: 🔗
therobrob2001: 🔗 (He must have disabled trophies.)
GiggyMusic: 🔗
jymmyjymmy: 🔗 🔗
sugandhsaurabh: 🔗
iGainer: 🔗
HolodniyWeter: 🔗
Perikla2: 🔗
JackBlack129: 🔗
luc0198: 🔗
Joel3056: 🔗
elzicka: 🔗
nicolesani: 🔗

And probably some other people too - people before I decided to keep a list. They will get their trophies when I go through my game archive. When I'm done going through my past games, I might have to give a trophy to myself as well.

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Same principle, but they took the scenic route.

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CRAZYHOUSE TIPS

Being good at regular chess helps greatly. You could use https://www.chess.com/tactics

You could also use google.com

Below are some of my experiences and advice, specific for crazyhouse. I collected common patterns, what to do what not to do with real examples from real games. These are most certainly open to discussion. Maybe I'll learn something from you people.

It is a work in progress. More might come. Some errors may be present. If you don't understand, maybe I didn't write it properly, or maybe you are not yet ready for it.

Enjoy.

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Principle:
A queen is about as valuable as two knights, bishops or rooks. Maybe slightly more valuable.

It's okay to exchange it for two such pieces. It's even more favorable to exchange it if afterwards the opponent is left with only the queen and no other pieces to drop. Because the queen cannot do much on its own in most cases, and she is too valuable to capture a defended piece (because she'll be gone afterwards). And without the ability to threaten a defended piece, the attack is doomed.

Example:
Black's 15. move
https://www.chess.com/live#g=2571774833

White's 8. move
https://www.chess.com/live#g=2571809314

A knight is about the same value as a rook. Especially early in the game, a knight is more valuable, as the rook could not comfortably move as the board is full of pieces.
White's 16. move
https://www.chess.com/live#g=2571826181

Please note, losing both rooks is worse than losing one rook two times. That means, make sure you have one rook defending the back rank.

Giving your knight (or bishop) for a rook is often favorable though. Because it disorients the opponent. And most people place too much value on the rook (because of regular chess) and therefore they will go to extreme lengths to defend it. You can abuse this.

Do not rush to capture pieces and protecting your own pieces under threat. Especially if you have a lot of pieces to drop at your disposal.
Black's 23. move is incorrect!
(24. move should have been played instead of 23.)
Also observe, black bishop did not escape on the 24. move. Instead, the mate sequence was started.
https://www.chess.com/live#g=2571826181

White's 19. move
https://www.chess.com/live#g=2571846041<br /> />Note that although the b7 pawn is hanging, white proceeds with his plans.

Two pawns are about the same value as two knights or bishops.

White's 15. move
https://www.chess.com/live#g=2571846041<br /> />(It'd be even better to do it instead of the 14. move, @c6. Because then after the exchange, bishop would be threatening the king without the possibility of being blocked by a pawn.

When pinning a knight on a queen using a bishop, make sure the bishop is away from enemy pawns.
Example:
White's 8 move is WRONG
(B@h5 would be better)
https://www.chess.com/live#g=2572100743<br /> />Because the bishop would be blocked by h6 and then g5 before you find a chance to drop a pawn on e5.

A common mate:
Preventing enemy drops on the 7th rank (2nd if you're white) would probably save you.
Dropping a rook instead of the queen would have been a mistake, by the way.
https://www.chess.com/live#g=2572100743

A common mate:
Enemy castles king-side. Enemy advances the g pawn, so the main diagonal is free for your bishop. A knight on h3 (or h6) mates.
https://www.chess.com/live#g=2572438804<br /> />(This guy could have prevented it though.)

https://www.chess.com/live#g=2576110350

The same, but with bishops:
https://www.chess.com/live#g=2572472573

A common mate:
Rook next to a king, backed up by a bishop. Rook and bishop are enough. The king is cornered by one of his own pieces.
https://www.chess.com/live#g=2574680118<br /> />https://www.chess.com/live#g=2575925625<br /> />https://www.chess.com/live#g=2582100923<br /> />https://www.chess.com/live#g=2590537711<br /> />https://www.chess.com/live#g=2590553525<br /> />https://www.chess.com/live#g=2596994895<br /> />Or maybe by one of my pieces:
https://www.chess.com/live#g=2619257357

A common mate:
https://www.chess.com/live#g=2580162331<br /> />A queen dropped on a diagonal neighbor of the king, backed up by a piece. The king is trapped by two pieces of its own color.

If you are dropping a bishop to threaten a piece, make sure a pawn drop won't trap your bishop.
White's 11. move
https://www.chess.com/live#g=2575205611

Rooks on home rank are susceptible to pawn forks.
White's 14th move
https://www.chess.com/live#g=2582123248

Knight sacrifice for a knight fork:
This sort always happens near a king-side castle.
White's 26th move
https://www.chess.com/live#g=2582123248

Common mate:
Two knights and a rook (or a queen).
https://www.chess.com/live#g=2583154457

Bishop forks of perpendicular diagonals often save your life.
White's 28. move
https://www.chess.com/live#g=2590537711

Bishops forks don't happen that often, but when they do, they often come out of nowhere and they hurt.

Common pattern: Knight fork on pinned droppee. Explanation:

You threaten a valuable piece with a diagonal moving piece:
White's 15th move https://www.chess.com/live#g=2590744177

Enemy blocks with a piece on a diagonally adjacent square: Black's 15th move.

You drop (or bring) a knight to fork the valuable piece and the blocking piece: White's 16th move

The valuable piece is often the king. This often happens when you are giving the opponent consequent check!s.

Rook-pawn fork with bishop drop
Be careful for your own b2 pawn though.
White 12
https://www.chess.com/live#g=2591689325

Be careful defending against a piece with the same piece of your own.
Your opponent might exchange, and execute the same attack again.
when exchanging the same piece.

Black's 8th move is useless:
https://www.chess.com/live#g=2621432412

Use two knights if the forking grounds are defended.
White's 21th move:
https://www.chess.com/live#g=2621432412

You all know that in regular chess a knight is worth 3 points, rook 5, queen 10 etc. Well, there are such numbers in crazyhouse too. But these numbers are much more variable compared to regular chess, depending on the position.

A pawn in your pocket is more valuable if the enemy does not have much defense on the back rank. Because your pawn can easily promote.

A knight in your pocket is more valuable if you are starting an attack on the enemy king. Because your opponent won't be able to block or a knight, unlike all other pieces. Then you go on placing another piece on the recently vacated square. Where the enemy king used to be, that is.

After castling, a piece is (usually) more valuable if it is currently defending the king side. So for example when defending do not rush to exchange your king-side bishops. Or when attacking it's okay to sacrifice a bishop so that you can capture a king-side pawn.

I'll probably put up examples for these as well. Some day.

Avoid "tension" on your pieces. Try to create "tension" on enemy pieces.

Tension? Tension on a piece is when a piece is not defended (even if it is away from potential attackers), or the piece is defended by a piece that might fall easily, or even if after the defender captures the potential attacker you are in a bad position etc.
Stuff that forces you to make a certain move, more or less. (Not exactly)
Let's see an example:
https://www.chess.com/live#g=2627864588

Starting with his 11th move, black is building up tension on white's bishops, knight and the queen.
Starting with white's 20th move, the tension is released, which leaves white in a difficult position (even without his blunder, 23th move)

Say you couldn't avoid it. The enemy has been building up tension on your pieces. What do you do? After the tension starts to release, you have to sacrifice something to regain the initiative. Often something bigger than you expect. Otherwise you will lose much more when your opponent is done releasing the tension.

"Check!" and block the king at the same time with a knight:

https://www.chess.com/live#g=2982063273

31st move of white.

This happens often.

It is common to get mated right after you exchange queens, especially when it's early in the game and the board is crowded and you don't expect anything.

https://www.chess.com/live#g=3026581767

Make sure the exchange is safe. Or try to be the one who takes first.

alfenso3