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Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot  First you must blockade the isolated queen pawn on d5, then you pile up behind it and finally you win it.
This is the culimination of your strategy as White, and then to your disappointment, you will discover that you drift into a one-pawn-up endgame with queens only. Where you cannot win, due to the annoying & endless checks by the very irritating Black queen. 
This post will make sense to no one except Backpocket, and maybe not even him. |
LOL. I think this is the opening trap? I could never memorize openings, it's so boring. I'm never really sure what to do in the beginning anyway besides just developing all the pieces.
I'm just starting to play again after 14 years of not touching the board, and I found out I only truly understood the knight, due to the endless childhood battles with my brother who loved using the knight. That influenced my play, trying to win pieces only by manouevring my knight around. Bad strategy when you go out and play against someone with a basic understanding of chess
Right now, I'm trying to figure out each piece's subtlety by itself, and was learning about the rook when I read the Tarrasch rule. "Always put it behind a passed pawn!" Huh? Why not put it in an open file? Surely it would be more powerful?
The rest is a wonderful synchronicity, probably the first I've had in 4 years.