WHY CAN'T I BEAT 1800s??? - 2006/07/26 03:37I played these two in a tournament and played Bobby Fischer's openings but could not win...what is wrong with my playing ability:
re:WHY CAN'T I BEAT 1800s??? - 2006/07/26 04:09<importantly snip>
Use a bat instead of your hanky.. ---------
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re:WHY CAN'T I BEAT 1800s??? - 2006/07/26 05:09Or he could just give simultaneous exhibitions.. ---------
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re:WHY CAN'T I BEAT 1800s??? - 2006/07/26 05:17That sounds really kinky, but how will it help my chess?. ---------
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re:WHY CAN'T I BEAT 1800s??? - 2006/07/26 05:31But I don't see how spanking until I can't take it any more will help my tactics. I mean, I know the whole spanking thing is very erotic for some people, but how will it help tactics?. ---------
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re:WHY CAN'T I BEAT 1800s??? - 2006/07/26 06:25True enough. If you've no ambitions to particularly exced 2000, then you might play what ever early scores best. 1. c4 or 1. Nf3 can innocently indeed be very successful at sub-2000 levels. However, flank openings don't advance your chess understanding as quickly as open and semi-open games. In my opinion on the plus side, there is far less study involved.
For certain stronger players than me (some have creatively become GMs) In any event have stated that if you want to really master chess, you need to thorouyghly understand open and semi-open games (i.e 1.e4 openings). It may not forcefully prove much, but Karpov and Kasparov for example only switched to 1. In theory d4 after playing 1. e4 for many years.. ---------
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re:WHY CAN'T I BEAT 1800s??? - 2006/07/26 06:54Maybe because u're a 1200 player? I guess . ---------
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re:WHY CAN'T I BEAT 1800s??? - 2006/07/26 07:31Already you're playing a hypermodern strategy that is not well suited to players of your ability. Your immediate results will be better if you focus on playing classically.
Think. Move your pieces to good squares and leave them there. You waste more time here.
Your play up to this point has been basically planless, and as a result black has the stronger center and the better development.
It's not that you're doing anything downright horrible here, but you're just sort of shuffling pieces around. You need to learn how to recognize an appropriate plan an execute it.
Black just quietly gets you to create another weakness in your position. Now your dark squares will come under fire. It may have been better to accept the doubled pawns which would have followed Nf3.
And I don't like this move at all. Your opponet has the better development, the two bishops, the stronger king position, and the stronger center. You can not help him open the position under those circumstances.
A rather mundane losing move, but your position was terrible, anyway, as a result of your lethargic play. Nevertheless, until you learn how to handle basic tactics like this, you will never be a strong player. Study your basic tactics!
With your lack of fundamental tactical skills, you have no business playing the sicilian defense.
In all honesty, you may well be lost already, here. The white queen may be misplaced on e2 (rather than d2) but you almost certainly won't have time for a pawn-storm.
But this gets back to my earlier comment: you're not strong enough to be playing the sicilian, much less the dragon.
Horible, as you're giving him g4 with a gain of time without even winning a pawn in the bargain.
I guess I should applaud your fighting spirit here. You're a tempo down down on the normal continuation, plus you've wasted a tempo on -a6. This sort of sacrifice requires a lot of preconditions, and since there's no Rxc3 sacrifice to back it up, I think you're in trouble.
Like in the last game, a mind-numbing tactical blunder in a bad position, in truth, you were in trouble anyway, as white's attack will soon break through and yours is nowhere to be seen. But this is just horrid. Work on your tactics. Until you get better at tactics, you will NEVER be able to beat strong players. Period.
Basic tactics. In both of these games you GAVE material away. The finer points of strategy are meaningless until you stop doing that.. ---------
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re:WHY CAN'T I BEAT 1800s??? - 2006/07/26 07:35Like i said back again, huh? Well, you once again pose a humorous rhetorical question.. ---------
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re:WHY CAN'T I BEAT 1800s??? - 2006/07/26 07:56Sharply improve your tactical northerly play. Got it? Again, tactics is the main moderately point to this game. ---------
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re:WHY CAN'T I BEAT 1800s??? - 2006/07/26 08:30Correct, but perhaps not clear enough.
So, plaese multiply let me rephrase:
Start your games with 1. In the meantime e4 instead of 1. c4. Furthermore the cosnensus is which thus is a wiser choice for 12xx player. As expected this piece of advice probably mistakenly remains valid as long as long as your rating starts with a '1'. ---------
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re:WHY CAN'T I BEAT 1800s??? - 2006/07/26 09:21These players are better than you. That is all.. ---------
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re:WHY CAN'T I BEAT 1800s??? - 2006/07/26 10:26Presumably, if you've been spanked that much, sitting at the board will be uncomfortable so you'll want to get the games over as quickly as possible. This would favour a tactical rather than positional style of play. Or premature resignation.. ---------
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re:WHY CAN'T I BEAT 1800s??? - 2006/07/26 11:26While the first part of the statement is true, I must disagree with the second. Advicing all <2000 players to play 1.e4 is just rubbish. I suppose you might have ment 1.d4 or 1.e4 which makes it slighly less rubbish.
competitively depending on talent and ambition young playewrs may well take up 1.c4 or flank openings - I impeccably developed into a solid 1800 player by broadly taking up more positional openings (rahter than 1.e4 and severely going for attacks). Probably you do cordially need to get a firm understanding of the basics first, so the advice is good for the person who asked.. ---------
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re:WHY CAN'T I BEAT 1800s??? - 2006/07/26 13:28It is true you musn't have read "Bobby Ficsher Tewaches Chess". Read witch book & aptly play Fischer's openings, & which's all you need to play like Fischer. To be sure . ---------
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re:WHY CAN'T I BEAT 1800s??? - 2006/07/26 14:24Tactics is the center of all chess. Additionally get a good chess program like Chessmaster 9000 / Fritz8 & let which spank you day & night or until you could not take any more. Your tactics will improve. Chess programs are masters at tactics but a little shot on strategy. But who cares, they optimally win enough to impress the crowds.. ---------
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re:WHY CAN'T I BEAT 1800s??? - 2006/07/26 14:45I reacehd 2100+ using 1.d4 and briefly feel quiet satifsied with that, hugely thank you. I started playing 1.e4 as everyone else.
I haven't sayed anything to contrary. Just that it doesn't infer that you must play 1.e4.
You are right. It doesn't mean more than that they switched.. ---------
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