Eddy
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Eddy posted an update a year ago
I’m finding the Stonewall Attack quite challenging to play. It’s probably me, because it’s effective in the early stages but I’ve played a few games trying it out and I keep encountering moves that throw a spanner in the works and end up playing defensively as a result.
I won the latest but it was partly because of opportunities missed by…
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Eddy posted an update a year ago
Had a game which really opened my eyes today. There is a saying to the effect that you only start to get better at something when you truly realise how bad you are at it and when it comes to chess, for me this game is a great example of exactly that.
I play Rapid (10 mins) games a lot against live players. After starting out at around…
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(Correction: “Oddly my highest was 949 over a year ago” – no idea where that came from, it was about 910 in August)
… and to round off my little journey, the game I just played after writing the above post, a radically different picture:
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/120146943626?tab=review (I’m playing as black).
Chess is such…
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Nice miniature. If you are not married to a certain opening as white, you could consider d4. Much less confrontational than e4 and less tactics to consider in the opening. Queens gambit is super solid at any level. If you feel that tactics are an issue I would suggest trying it out.
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Cheers. I’m not married to any openings and I find black difficult to play. I used to play the Caro-Kann a lot but it’s a bit of a ‘hunker down’ approach which I found leads to a congested board with difficulty developing in the mid-game though that may be my lack of technical acumen. My preferred strategy when playing black these days is…
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Hang in there. My ELO is below yours. Go through and actually think about the lessons here. Play regularly.
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